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Mathematics is a form of art. This is a statement often considered obvious to those in the mathematical community and surprising to those on the outside. The puzzles that remain in contemporary black hole physics are deep and often fall at the interface of theoretical physics and pure mathematics. This is where my interest comes in, I have an academic background in both mathematics and physics before I pursued a doctoral degree in theoretical physics in the Netherlands. I am now currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Central European Institute for Cosmology here in the Czech republic, where I continue my search into the underlying geometry that lies behind quantum mechanics.

I graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Brno University of Technology in the field of Medical Applications this year. Currently, I am starting my Ph.D. studies in a research group focused on Smart Nanodevices at CEITEC BUT. Science has always been an excitement for me and fortunately became my dream job. I was a student who wanted to work in a laboratory beyond the required time, so I started my race in the first year of university studying. At the beginning of my career, I was focused on the development of bioceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Little by little, I have tried to find other possible ways of bioceramic materials applications in nerve tissue engineering. Now, I am expanding my knowledge by studying nanocarriers for targeted cancer therapy. My calling is to develop several medical devices easily and cheaply to make complicated medical treatments accessible for all people in the world.

I am Subodh Verma, currently working as Marie Curie postdoc fellow at Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. I did my master's in Biotechnology from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi. For my master's thesis, at NABI, Mohali, I studied the iron storage ferritin gene in various wheat varieties with the overall aim of improving iron content through biofortification of wheat seeds. Later, I moved to NIPGR, New Delhi, India for my doctoral degree where I used integrated approaches to study chickpea seed development. Now as a postdoc, I am investigating the transcriptional regulation of auxin biosynthetic genes during embryo development in Arabidopsis, and how this mechanism is affected by climate change, particularly high temperatures.

Sandra Thalerová is a Ph.D. student of biochemistry at Masaryk University and a student/junior researcher at Institute of Biophysics and FNUSA-ICRC STROKE BRNO research group. Her main focus includes enzymatic thrombolysis in various in vitro systems. She specializes in in vitro modeling of vasculature pathologies including ischemic stroke. She has three years of experience in development of in vitro thrombolytic model systems including static, flow and microfluidic designs, and clots preparations and characterization.

I attended a grammar school at Náchod (Jirásek Gymnázium). During the studies I was thinking about going to a med school, but I have chosen architecture instead. I was admitted to the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and during the studies I attended a parametric modelling course. I have completed the bachelor's degree and in the last year I passed the med school entrance exam. I started studying at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague. I chose this faculty because of its new curriculum. During the studies I was engaged in student groups. I was helping with creating new educational materials for the first-year university students focused on the function of cell and human body. After finishing med school, I became a member of the Czech Paediatric Society and the Czech Society of Cardiology. Currently I work in the office of my mother, whose specialty is... We treat several patients with congenital heart defects. I like traveling, sports and scuba diving.

Living in Prague, Czech Republic.

A film-maker with rich international experience who runs an original social initiative in development – a film club for visually impaired young people.

Based on this initiative and its specific needs was developed an additional innovative idea at a concept stage of connecting film, social and technology.

Václav Navrátil is an expert in the field of localization, including indoor positioning, GNSS precise positioning techniques, he also focuses on RF measurements and instrumentation. He holds Ph.D. degree in radioelectronics from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Since 2012 he is with the Department of Radio Engineering of the CTU-FEE, currently he performs as Assistant Professor.

He is the president of the Czech Institute of Navigation and the European vice-chair of Civil GPS Service Interface Committee - International Information Subcommittee. In 2016, he served as a Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering.

Antonín graduated from the 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles University in 2015. Since then, he has been working as a researcher and psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany, Czech Republic. Antonín's main topic of professional interest is perinatal psychiatry. He is currently principal investigator of three grant projects oriented on innovations in mental health care for women in the perinatal period. Antonín was on a number of internships abroad, such as at the Before After Baby Lab at Yale University, or at the Lifeline4Moms at the University of Massachusetts as mentee of professor Nancy Byatt. Antonín is married and a proud dad of two boys.

Michela Sanna obtained a double Master's degree with honours in Chemical Sciences, specialized in Green Chemistry, at the University of Sassari (Italy) and at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). After graduation, she worked for three months at the University of Sassari as a post-graduate researcher. She is currently enrolled in the PhD school of CEITEC Brno University of Technology in the field of Advanced Nanotechnology and Microtechnology. She is part of the research group "Future Energy and Innovation" led by Prof. Martin Pumera and her thesis is focused on the investigation of 2D materials for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution as a clean energy source. In 2020, she won the Brno PhD Talent competition and the Internal Grant Competition of the Brno University of Technology.

I love what I do, and I try to do it as best I can. At the beginning of my career, I specialized in developing web applications, but then I decided I want to try something new, so I started to develop desktop applications (especially for VR headset XTAL). This resulted in my doctoral thesis – User interface for virtual reality – at the Faculty of Information Technology at Czech Technical University in Prague, where I also teach.

Apart from that, I now work in Chaos Czech as a C++ developer for Corona renderer for Cinema 4D.

But I try to be also active in other aspects of life – I really love organizing events – whether it is just a get-together with my friends or an event for hundreds of people.

My studies were shaped by the Czech Technical University in Prague, where I enrolled at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2014. Already during the bachelors in Theoretical Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, I got excited about new technologies. Therefore, I dedicated my further studies and work to robotics, automation, and industrial AI.

In 2020, I graduated from masters Mechatronics with honors. My diploma thesis won the Werner von Siemens award for the best thesis focused on the topic of Industry 4.0. Since then, I have been further developing the work towards an industrial ready solution.

I gained international experience while being as an exchange student for one term in Germany, Singapore and Canada. For two years, I have worked as a researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, where I helped with the development of machine learning solutions. Currently, I am starting a new position as robotics engineer in Munich.

My name is Veronika Tůmová, I am a PhD student focusing on aquaponics, which is a soiless food production method combining aquaculture and plant growing in hydroponic technology. My focus is on many aspects of the technology (researched in five-year grant), but mainly on food quality from aquaponics. Specifically, comparing effect of hydroponic, aquaponic and aquaponic fertilized nutrition on lettuce. My aim is to bring aquaponics into the practice, since it uses fish "waste" - organic source of nutrients from the fish production to grow vegetables. Nowadays model of conventional agriculture strongly relies on inorganic fertilizers. We should rethink our agricultural models in order to grow food in a more sustainable way.

Cagatay M. Oral is a Ph.D. student at Future Energy and Innovation Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Martin Pumera at Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno, Czech Republic. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. As an undergraduate and graduate researcher at METU, he focused on the synthesis of ceramic particles for biomedical applications. Currently, he is working on micro-/nanorobots for environmental and biomedical applications.