Posts

Posted on

RadChem 2026

    On behalf of the organizers, we would like to invite you to the 20th Radiochemical Conference, which will take place in Mariánské Lázně, the Czech Republic from May 10 to 15, 2026. This international conference is organized by the Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in cooperation with the Czech Chemical Society and the Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society. With a 65-year tradition, the conference covers a range of topics from modern and traditional areas of nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry.
  • Radionuclides in the Environment, Radioecology (RER)
  • Radioanalytical Methods (NAM)
  • Chemistry of Actinide and Trans-actinide Elements (TAN)
  • Radiation Chemistry (RCH)
  • Production and Application of Radionuclides (PAR)
  • Separation Methods, Speciation (SEP)
  • Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radiochemical Aspects of Radioactive Waste Management (NFC)
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, Labelled Compounds (RFC)
  • Education (EDU)

Deadline for abstract is February 25, 2026, late abstracts submission (posters only) 12 April 2026
For more information visit conference website.

Posted on

Success of workshop NUSTAR WEEK 2025

The ASHES (Aqueous chemistry of SuperHeavy ElementS) group at the DNS studies the chemistry of superheavy elements and their homologues. Its activities include cooperation in the international NUSTAR (NUclear STructure, Astrophysics and Reactions) collaboration, specifically in the SHE (SuperHeavy Elements) sub-collaboration. These activities are carried out under the umbrella of the international FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) infrastructure being built near Darmstadt, Germany. As part of this collaboration, a conference and workshop event called NUSTAR Week 2025 was held in Prague from September 29 to October 2, organized by Pavel Bartl (DNS CTU), Jan John (DNS CTU), Vratislav Chudoba (Silesian University in Opava/IFJ PAN Kraków) and Alexander Herlert (FAIR).

In addition to several blocks of plenary lectures, NUSTAR Week 2025 also included meetings and workshops of some subgroups of the NUSTAR collaboration. A total of 129 participants from 44 different institutions and 21 different countries around the world took part in NUSTAR Week 2025. In addition to the organizers, the Department of Nuclear Chemistry was represented by young researchers, and the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering was represented by its dean, Václav Čuba. The program, including abstracts of most of the contributions, is available on the event website event website.

Posted on

Visit of colleagues from ETH (Switzerland)

On June 23th and 24th 2025, the first meeting of scientists from the Department of Nuclear Chemistry CTU, PSI/ETH Zurich and the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS took place for the joint international project ELCHOR (ELectroChemistry with HOmologs of Roentgenium), which was accepted in the SNSF and GA CR Lead Agency call within the Weave initiative. On the first day, the team visited all the sites relevant to the project, i.e., the Laboratory of Chemistry of Superheavy Element Homologues, the U–120M cyclotron and the laboratories of the JH Institute and the DNC CTU, and then sat down for an informal dinner together. On the second day, a Kick–off meeting was held to further coordinate the research team before the actual start of the project, which will last for 3 years starting July 1st 2025. The project teams include 5 scientific staff, 1 postdoc, 1 technical staff and 3 PhD students. The principal investigators of the project are Pavel Bartl (DNC CTU) for the Czech side and Patrick Steinegger (PSI/ETH) for the Swiss side.

[Ukázat náhledy]

Posted on

Our Department welcomed a visit from the Japanese QST

From December 9 to 12, 2024, a delegation from QST (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan) visited the Department of Nuclear Chemistry at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. The delegation included Dr. Kotaro Nagatsu, Dr. Tatsuya Higashi, and Mr. Jun Ichinose. During their visit, joint interests in the fields of nuclear medicine and radiopharmacy were discussed, and mutual interest in future collaboration was expressed. The main topic of discussions was the preparation of the isotope 225Ac, a significant medical radionuclide used in advanced cancer therapy.
This contact was established through the efforts of the IAEA to support research, development, and international cooperation in nuclear sciences and their applications, in which Associate Professor Kozempel from the Department of Nuclear Chemistry at the Czech Technical University in Prague has been actively involved.

During their visit, the delegation toured the radiochemical laboratories of the Department of Nuclear Chemistry at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering and visited other facilities in Prague involved in nuclear medicine. From left: Dr. Tatsuya Higashi, Dr. Kotaro Nagatsu, Associate Professor Ján Kozempel, Jun Ichinose.
From left: Dr. Tatsuya Higashi, Dr. Kotaro Nagatsu, Associate Professor Ján Kozempel, Mr. Jun Ichinose.

Posted on

International cooperation in superheavy elements research

As part of research focused on the study of the chemistry of superheavy elements and their homologues, the staff of the Department of Nuclear Chemistry (KJCH) of the CTU in Prague organized this year’s second international experimental campaign on the cyclotron U-120M (IJF, CAS) in Řež near Prague, where they deepened their cooperation with the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, Texas A&M University (TAMU), USA, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, and the GSI Darmstadt research institute (GSI), Germany. Representatives from all of these institutes met at the U-120M cyclotron laboratory during the November campaign.

From left: Dr. Pavel Bartl (DNC), Annie Bukowski (TAMU), Prof. Jan John (top, DNC), Dr. Alexander Yakushev (bottom, GSI), Dr. Pavol Mošať (GSI), Katharina Hermainski (JGU/GSI), Prof. Christoph E. Düllmann (JGU/GSI), Felix Sprunk (JGU) and Prof. Jon Petter Omtvedt (UiO).
From left: Dr. Pavel Bartl (DNC), Annie Bukowski (TAMU), Prof. Jan John (top, DNC), Dr. Alexander Yakushev (bottom, GSI), Dr. Pavol Mošať (GSI), Katharina Hermainski (JGU/GSI), Prof. Christoph E. Düllmann (JGU/GSI), Felix Sprunk (JGU) and Prof. Jon Petter Omtvedt (UiO).

Posted on

ENEN2plus 14C workshop

Nuclear Physics Institute (The Czech Academy of Sciences) is organizing a five-day 14C workshop for Master degree’s students. The event takes place on 15-19 June 2024 in Řež. The deadline for scientific proposals submission scientific proposals is 11 February 2024.
More information can be found on the event website.

Posted on

New PhD positions in Nuclear Chemistry starting in 2021/2022

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the CTU in collaboration with the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences offer a PhD position in Nuclear Chemistry.

Topic: Synthesis and characterization of thin film scintillators based on tellurides or selenides

More information about position: Topic 1

Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the CTU offer a PhD position in Nuclear Chemistry.

Topic: Design, synthesis and characterization of multimodal nanostructures for biomedical application

More information about position: Topic 2

Posted on

Project CEBAMA

The european project CEBAMA, in which Group of migration of radionuclides and toxic substances in the environment headed by assistant professor Vopálka has participated , is ending. Do you want to know more? See the newsletter. More information here.

Posted on

Summer school SÚRAO

SÚRAO Summer school for students of bachelor and master programs will be held from 22th to 26th July 2019  . The motivation letter and CV need to be sent to the organizers till 30th June 2019 to the address novotna@surao.cz. Participation in summer school is free of charge. More information can be found here.