Professor Daniel Kral becomes Chair of the ERC Consolidator Grant Panel Physical Sciences and Engineering: Mathematics

Professor Daniel Kral has been working at FI since 2018. He has been awarded the Donald Ervin Knuth Professorship at FI, which the University created courtesy of Donald Knuth. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick, where he was Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and a member of its DIMAP research centre before coming to Brno.

His professional work focuses on graph theory and related areas of mathematics and computer science. Most of his current research focuses on questions in extremal combinatorics and combinatorial limit theory, which he has also addressed under the ERC Consolidator grant LADIST and the ERC Starting grant CCOSA.

Professor King has been newly appointed as Chair of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant Panel Physical Sciences and Engineering: Mathematics in the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

From this year, he has also joined the editorial board of the prestigious journals Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society and Journal of the London Mathematical Society.

Launch of 3 new EU-funded projects

In January 2023, the implementation of 2 EU-funded projects started at FI: the project "Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (CHESS)", implemented under the Horizon Europe Programme, call HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-04-01, and the project "Cybersecurity Innovation Hub", implemented under the European Commission's The Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL).

In April 2023, the implementation of the project "Czech National Quantum Communication Infrastructure", which was also approved under the DIGITAL call, will start.

Launch of 15 new projects funded by national providers

In January 2023, the implementation of 15 new projects funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic or from MU funds under university grant schemes started at FI.

These projects focus on e.g. new strategies in multi-echo fMRI data processing, intelligent tools for planning, execution and evaluation of tabletop exercises, advanced analysis and verification for advanced software, digital research infrastructure for language technology, arts and humanities or development of data processing techniques to support search, analysis and visualisation of large datasets using artificial intelligence.

Our new projects are also aimed at engaging FI students in the international research community.