Kristýna Gazdova won the 1st prize in the Best Student Presentation Award competition (Young Researcher category) at the Venice School on Laser In Materials Science (SLIMS)

MSc. Kristýna Gazdova, PhD student in the group of Ultrafast Photonics (department of Scientific Laser Applications) of the Hilase Centre, was awarded the 1st prize for young researchers in the Best Student Presentation Award competition at the School on Lasers In Materials Sciences (SLIMS), an award dedicated to the memory of Professor Roger Kelly. 

MSc. Kristýna Gazdova presenting her poster at the Venice School of Laser In Materials Sciences (SLIMS).

Kristyna is the 5th member of the SLA department to have received the Roger Kelly award after Dr Thibault JY Derrien (2016), Dr Sergei Lizunov (2016), Dr Chiara Liberatore (2018), and Dr. Martin Zukerstein (2022). 

The SLIMS co-directors Professors Leonid Zhigilei, Maria Dinescu, and Anna Paola Caricato (left) with the winners of the Roger Kelly Award 2024.

The school SLIMS is held every two years in Venice, Italy. The school provides lectures from renowned professors on the multiple physical and chemical aspects triggered by laser interaction with materials and offers an informal ground for fruitful interactions between professors and students from all over the world. Professor Nadezhda Bulgakova was among the lecturers. She gave the lecture titled “Modeling of laser-matter interaction: Linking theory and experiment”.

LINKS

• Awards of the School of Laser In Materials Sciences (SLIMS).
  https://slims-school.org/awards.htm 
• FZU Group of Ultrafast Photonics. https://www.fzu.cz/en/research/divisions-and-departments/division-5/department-63/group-6301 
• FZU department of Scientific Laser Applications
  https://www.fzu.cz/en/research/divisions-and-departments/division-5/department-63