Prizes, Awards, Honors and Research Fellowships
  • rector prize for distinction in M.S. Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 1990
  • postdoctoral fellowship, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1996 - 1997
  • Purkyne Fellowship, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic 2004 - 2009

  • The 2020 Czech Intellect award in the Invention category (Cena spolecnosti Ceska hlava PROJEKT, cena Invence) together with Dr. Jiri Dedecek and Dr. Edyta Tabor for the creation and description of the structure and reactivity of new, unique types of reaction cationic centers of transition metals in a zeolite matrix and their use in the oxidation of methane to methanol. The Czech Intellect society together with the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic are the annual announcers of the awards of the same name - the most prestigious Czech award for science and research that scientists in the Czech Republic can achieve.