Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU)

The history of the Czech Technical University in Prague dates back to 1707, its current name was accepted in 1920. Today, CTU in Prague is the largest technical university in the Czech Republic. Its recent figures are: 4084 employees, 41% teaching and researcher staff, out of which 36% women, 205 professors, 348 associate professors, CTU as a whole participated in more than one hundred of European projects under FP6, FP7 and Horizon 2020.
In 1959, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE) became a new faculty of CTU Prague. The Faculty is equipped with several large research facilities, such as the training nuclear reactor, modern radiochemical laboratories, experimental Tokamak; it is also a partner in the new accelerator mass spectrometry laboratory RAMSES, etc. Among the first departments of the new faculty, Department of Nuclear Chemistry (DNC), headed by postgraduate student of Marie Curie-Sklodowska Frantisek Behounek was created. Today, DNC is one of the few units in Europe that still offer full scale of courses leading to titles in Nuclear Chemistry at all Bologna-type levels (BSc, MSc, Ph.D.). The current research activities of the DNC cover the majority of the fields within the traditional definition of nuclear chemistry – including its separation methods, radioanalytical chemistry, radiotracer techniques, chemistry of the actinides, and radiation chemistry including its applications – as well as radioecology, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, and biomedical applications of radionuclides and ionising radiation.