2021 SAS awards

Slovak Academy of Sciences annually awards its top scientific workers. The SAS awards are the highest form of appreciation of their creative activities. The awards are given for excellent results achieved in scientific work, for results achieved in international scientific and technical cooperation and for the popularization of science. This year’s award ceremony took place on June 30, 2022 at the SAS Congress Center in Smolenice.

“SAS award is the most valuable and significant award for a scientist of the Academy, it is a result of years of hard work and sacrifice,” said SAS president prof. Pavol Šajgalík and emphasized that SAS’s effort is not to devalue the price. “I wish you and the entire Academy that this award marks the pinnacle of appreciation, and that we will not have to convince society that science and research are essential for it.”

Slavomír Michálek spoke on behalf of the awarded scientists, and thanked for this year’s awards. “We are part of the SAS big bang, with which we want to prove to the whole neighborhood that science and research have an optimistic future,” he concluded his speech.

During the ceremony, leading Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták performed during several musical blocks.

Institute of Experimental Physics SAS was awarded several prizes:

The SAS award for the 2021 results of scientific research was given to the collective of the research group Amyloid Structures of Proteins of the Department of Biophysics IEP SAS led by doc. RNDr. Zuzana Gažová, DrSc. The research group consists of: RNDr. Andrea Antošová, PhD., RNDr. Zuzana Bednáriková, PhD., RNDr. Diana Fedunová, PhD., RNDr. Miroslav Gančár, PhD., and RNDr. Jozef Marek, PhD. The prize was awarded for the results achieved in the field of amyloid protein aggregation and the identification of substances for the therapy of amyloid diseases.

The SAS award for the 2021 results of scientific research of the young scientists was given to to RNDr. Šimon Mackovjak, PhD., member of the Department of Space Physics, IEP SAS for results achieved in the field of space weather research using machine learning methods.

The SAS award for the 2021 results of international scientific research  and technical cooperation was given to the team of the Department of Magnetism IEP SAS  for the results in the field of magnetic nanoparticles changing the properties of traditional materials and opening up new application possibilities. The research group consists of: RNDr. Marianna Baťková, PhD., RNDr. Veronika Lacková, PhD., RNDr. Jozef Kováč, CSc., doc. RNDr. Peter Kopčanský, CSc., Ing. Matúš Molčan, PhD., Ing. Katarína Paulovičová, PhD., RNDr. Michal Rajňák, PhD., RNDr. Milan Timko, CSc., RNDr. Natália Tomašovičová, CSc., and RNDr. Katarína Zakuťanská, PhD.

We would like to congratulate all the awarded scientists and research groups and wish them many creative ideas and motivation for further scientific and research activities.

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