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- 150 million CZK paid in support of Czech science
- 131 scientists awarded since 2009
- 15 years championing science and research
- 13 scientific expeditions worth 6.8 million CZK
The first ever Speed Dating with scientists has taken place!
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I want to be there next timeQuiz – which field suits you?
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- You will find out what you enjoy most and where you could go.
- You will get tips on films and books that will thrill you.
- And you can sign up for Speed Dating with top scientists, who will help you find your own path.
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Mathematics and Computer Science
This is the field that suits you best. Curious what opportunities open up here? Do not wait — set your career in the right direction from the very start. We invite you to Speed Dating, taking place on 15 June at Zen Work in Prague. Meet the leaders in the field, get valuable advice and work out your next steps with the guidance of the very best.
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Physics and Chemistry
This is the field that suits you best. Curious what opportunities open up here? Do not wait — set your career in the right direction from the very start. We invite you to Speed Dating, taking place on 15 June at Zen Work in Prague. Meet the leaders in the field, get valuable advice and work out your next steps with the guidance of the very best.
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Social Sciences and Humanities
This is the field that suits you best. Curious what opportunities open up here? Do not wait — set your career in the right direction from the very start. We invite you to Speed Dating, taking place on 15 June at Zen Work in Prague. Meet the leaders in the field, get valuable advice and work out your next steps with the guidance of the very best.
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Biology and medicine
This is the field that suits you best. Curious what opportunities open up here? Do not wait — set your career in the right direction from the very start. We invite you to Speed Dating, taking place on 15 June at Zen Work in Prague. Meet the leaders in the field, get valuable advice and work out your next steps with the guidance of the very best.
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A Neuron Award laureate could be your inspiration
doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D.
Neuron Award laureate in Social Sciences for young promising scientists 2025
He studies international relations and the mechanics of peace. He focuses on nuclear weapons, disarmament and the ways in which norms are contested and eroded. His research connects diplomatic relations, security studies and political psychology. He presents his work at major universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge.
A Neuron Award laureate could be your inspiration
Mgr. Kateřina Rohlenová, Ph.D.
Neuron Award laureate in Medicine for young promising scientists 2023
A leading expert in tumour biology. She works on breakthrough research into the metabolic communication between healthy and cancerous cells. Her project has ambitious aims: to identify the weaknesses of cancer cells and so make new therapeutic approaches possible. She is looking for new strategies in the fight against cancer.
A Neuron Award laureate could be your inspiration
prof. Tomáš Jungwirth, Ph.D.
Neuron Award laureate in Physics for a major scientific discovery 2018
His research laid the foundations of an entirely new field — antiferromagnetic spintronics. At the heart of his 2018 discovery are antiferromagnets, materials that behave unusually when an electric current passes through them. His team proved that writing data to them is up to a thousand times faster than to ordinary storage media.
A Neuron Award laureate could be your inspiration
doc. Erin Carson, Ph.D.
Neuron Award laureate in Mathematics for young promising scientists 2025
She took her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, but in 2018 she moved to Prague and now researches and teaches at Charles University. She leads courses on numerical algebra for data science and high-performance computing. In March 2025 she received the prestigious James H. Wilkinson Prize, awarded only once every four years.
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Our young ambassadors could inspire you too
Claudia Haová
Claudia Haová, a student at the prof. Jan Patočka grammar school, developed her own artificial-intelligence model, FungiGPT, which can diagnose fungal skin diseases with an accuracy of more than 70 %. And she did it without laboratory facilities — with nothing but the tools available and her own curiosity. Thanks to Neuron she is now heading for a placement with machine-learning experts at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University.
“My sister had an illness the doctors could not identify. So I told myself I would try to find out myself.”
Václav Verner
Václav Verner, a student at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, joined research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences while still studying, working on peptide protease inhibitors with the potential to become drugs against dangerous pathogens. He holds three gold medals from the International Chemistry Olympiad. This year he became the first ever laureate of the Neuron Rising Star Award.
“I found that in science the details matter. And I started to enjoy solving those puzzles.”
Václav Knapp
Václav Knapp, a secondary-school student working with the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on connecting artificial intelligence with neuroscience and on analysing video data for the development of humanoid robots. He presented his research into synthetic data for training AI models at the CVPR conference and, as the youngest participant in its history, spoke at the ASSETS conference. Thanks to Neuron he did a placement at Berkeley at the age of seventeen.
“I wanted to know how to connect AI with the brain. My ambition comes from unrelenting curiosity.”
Terezie Štěpánková
Terezie Štěpánková, a university student doing research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, works on DNA aptamers — short nucleic-acid molecules that can recognise target molecules in the human body specifically. She focuses on stabilising their structure so that they can one day serve as drugs or as diagnostic sensors. Nadace Neuron supported Terezie with a placement at the Academy of Sciences with Kateřina Rohlenová, the 2023 Neuron Award laureate for medicine.
“The moment I stopped just watching, science pulled me straight into the game.”
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