News

07.07.2025

EuroCurvoBioNet Workshop 2025 Outreach & Dissemination

Proudly organized by Jitka

19.06.2025

Eliška Paulíková Wins Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis!

Congratulations!

14.06.2025

Droplets in Artificial Life

We organized a special session at the Bubbles and Drops conference in Prague, June 9–13, 2025

06.06.2025

Open Call

We’re Organizing CHEMALIFORMS V: The Fifth Workshop on Chemistry and Artificial Life Forms. Join us!

01.06.2025

GreenHack 2025: Innovation for a Sustainable Future

Jitka once again served on the jury panel

16.05.2025

COST Academy Leadership Workshop

Jitka’s next journey to Brussels

29.04.2025

Celebrating International Guide Dog Day

Jitka and her puppy-in-training Rose joined Czech Radio’s “Klub Rádia Junior”

07.04.2025

We are organizing a COST Action EuroCurvoBioNet Workshop in Prague

Join us!

17.02.2025

Bubble and Drop Conference 2025

We are co-organizing a conference in June in Prague

06.02.2025

40 Years of Artificial Life Conferences

Jitka is preparing another book, contribute!

05.02.2025

Invitation

Jitka is organizing the second Global Women's Breakfast at UCT Prague on Tuesday, February 11, 2025

01.02.2025

Krakatit Anniversary

Jitka Čejková, along with Vít Svoboda and Zdeněk Vacek, read from Krakatit at the musical-literary event

27.01.2025

Noční Mikrofórum

Jitka as a Guest on a Czech Radio Program

31.12.2024

End-of-Year Balances

While chemical engineers usually balance mass and enthalpy, Jitka balances the successes of her book

20.12.2024

Crytur Awards 2024

Nina Nováková awarded in the prestigious competition for the best diploma thesis in the field of material sciences

10.12.2024

Styl pro ženy

Jitka appeared on the front page of Magazine Styl pro zeny - Tuesday's supplement of the national newspaper Právo (four-page interview in Czech only).

04.12.2024

Aktion Scholarship for Eliška

Congratulations to Eliška for receiving a scholarship for her internship in Austria

02.12.2024

WebDialog.cz

Jitka as a guest on the program "Čapek’s Krakatit and Its Message for Today"

28.11.2024

Book Launch of Krakatit 100 at UCT Prague

Bringing chemistry and culture together 100 years after Krakatit

28.11.2024

Student Scientific Conference 2024

Congrats to Eliška Paulíková on 2nd place in Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Cybernetics!

21.11.2024

KreATivita&InovaCZe

Jitka Čejková was invited to Linz as a keynote speaker at the opening event of the Interreg project

18.11.2024

Krakatit 100

Another volume dedicated to the legacy of Čapek’s Krakatit is coming out, with Jitka Čejková as editor.

05.11.2024

Interview with Jitka

Exploring the story behind Krakatit 100 and why Čapek still matters today

19.10.2024

“Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Goal-Directed Behavior”

Jitka was invited to give a talk

28.09.2024

Researchers' Night 2024

This year, we are also presenting at the pan-European Night of Scientists on the topic of Metamorphosis

27.09.2024

Jitka as a guest of Lucie Výborná

listen to the interview in Czech on the Czech radio station Radiožurnál

21.09.2024

Běstvina 2024 – a three-day trip filled with company visits, industry insights, and team bonding

Jitka organized a teambuilding excursion for master’s students

02.09.2024

CURVOBIO 2024

The kickoff conference for a new COST Action, where we are involved in

22.08.2024

Summer with Our International Students

Our lab is hosting Inés from France and Maja from Poland.

28.07.2024

ALIFE 2024

Report on the participation of Jitka at the conference on artificial life in Copenhagen (22 - 26 July, 2024)

26.07.2024

Information, Coding, and Biological Function: the Dynamics of Life

Jitka's presentation closely related to a recently published article in the Artificial Life journal

26.07.2024

Best Poster Award at ALIFE 2024 Conference

Nina Nováková was awarded for her work on myelin figures

24.07.2024

Jitka's Invited Talk

2nd Workshop on Molecular Communication Approaches for Wetware Artificial Life

23.07.2024

CHEMALIFORMS IV

The fourth workshop on chemistry and artificial life forms organized by Jitka took place today at the ALIFE 2024 conference

10.07.2024

First Call

Jitka is a member of the organizing committee and chair of the Special session "Drops in Artificial Life"

07.07.2024

Special Award for Nina Nováková

Nina received an award at the "Growing with Chemistry" conference. Congratulations!

17.06.2024

Simona Staňová

Congratulations to Simona Staňová for successfully defending her bachelor’s thesis today

12.06.2024

Garden party at the British Embassy

Jitka Presents Books to British Ambassador at King's Birthday Party

11.06.2024

Visit from Tym Sokolskyi

from University of Wisconsin-Madison

04.06.2024

Congratulations

Jakub, Laura and Nina successfully completed their master's degrees and can now use the title "Ing."

28.05.2024

GreenHack 2024

Jitka was a jury member and presented one of the awards

25.05.2024

50th International Conference of SSCHE

Thanks to everyone for the excellent representation of our group.

26.03.2024

Physics for understanding life

Jitka Čejková and Carlos Gershenson contributed by a chapter to EPS Grand Challenges book

18.03.2024

We are organizing a workshop at ALIFE 2024

Deadline May 12, 2024

28.02.2024

COST Academy

Jitka took part in Canva training in Brussels, where she strengthened her skills as a Dynalife science communication coordinator

20.02.2024

Global Women’s Breakfast 2024

We organize an event on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

08.02.2024

INTER-MICRO project

This project was launched on January 1st. We are involved in work package 2: "Talking to microbes - innovative signal delivery systems".

26.01.2024

Book Launch: R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

UCT Prague hosted a long-awaited celebration for both the English and Czech editions of the acclaimed book inspired by Čapek's legacy.

24.01.2024

COST Action Dynalife meeting in Prague

We are organizing a meeting on dissemination and communication that will contribute to WG4 objectives

18.01.2024

Invitation to the Book Launch

You are warmly invited on January 25, 2024 for the book launch titled "R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life"

16.01.2024

Out Now: R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

A new MIT Press volume edited by Jitka Čejková on robots, life, and legacy.

13.01.2024

Contipro seminars for high school students

Kicked off by Jitka and her lecture on "Artifical life as a research field and as science fiction in the work of Karel Čapek"

11.01.2024

Jitka’s book reviewed in Science!

"R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life, a new volume edited by Czech chemical engineer Jitka Čejková, is welcome because it reminds us that words have histories too, and we ignore them at our peril."