Prof Jana Kalbáčová Vejpravová

Full professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics (MatFyz)
E-mail
jana.vejpravova@matfyz.cuni.cz
Focus
Quantum materials with manifold spin degrees of freedom; low-temperature physics; magnetism and superconductivity.
Expertise
Classical and quantum magnetism in condensed matter; low-dimensional magnetic systems; strongly correlated electron systems; low-temperature physics and instrumentation; advanced magnetometric techniques; magneto-Raman and magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy; X-ray and neutron scattering methods; crystal growth and super-purification of transition metals; applied group theory.
Running Projects
  • 2024 - 2028 Advanced MUltiscaLe materials for key Enabling Technologies (AMULET), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Programme Johannes Amos Comenius
  • 2023 - 2028 Quantum Materials for Applications in Sustainable Technologies (QM4ST); Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Programme Johannes Amos Comenius
  • 2024 - 2026 Isotope Engineering of Moire Superlattices in Twisted Bilayers of 2D Materials; Czech Science Foundation
  • 2025 UAAT-ICU; Tawian - Czech collaborative project
Background
  • 2021 - present Full professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP), CU
  • 2018 - 2021 Associate professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP), CU
  • 2017 Senior scientist, Department of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP), CU
  • 2017 Senior scientist, Department of Magnetic Nanosystems (MNS), Institute of Physics (IP), Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) (part time)
  • 2015 – present Full professor, previously Associate professor, Department of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC), CU (part time)
  • 2015 ‘habilitation’ in condensed matter physics, Charles University (CU
  • 2013 – 2016 Head of Department of MNS, IP CAS
  • 2011 – 2015 Researcher & lecturer, DIC CU (part time)
  • 2011 – 2012 Senior scientists, Department of Functional Materials, IP CA
  • 2008 – 2010 Assistant professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, DCMP CU
  • 2003 - 2007 Ph.D. in condensed matter physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, CU

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST & MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES (active only)

  • 2025 – present Representative of the Czech Republic in the Quantum Community Network (Quantum Flagship EU)
  • 2025 – present Evaluation panel 109, Czech Science Foundation
  • 2024 – present Evaluation panel (Mathematics and Physics) of the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • 2023 – present Expert panel of the R&D&I Council (guarantor panelist - FORD 2.10), 2025 – vice-chair of the panel
  • 2022 – present Academic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • 2021 – present Scientific Council of Palacky University, Olomouc
  • 2021 – present AcademiaNet- Leading Women Scientists, now Bosch Alumni Network (nominated by the ERC)
  • 2020 – present Expert of the European Commission for the Graphene Flagship evaluation
  • 2013 – present American Chemical Society, USA; Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, CZ
  • 2008 – present Reviewer of international project applications (e.g., DFG, H2020, Horizon Europe, ERC, etc.)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (selected)

  • 2022 – present Co-chair of the bachelor study program Science
  • 2021 – present Scientific Council of the FMP, CU
  • 2020 – 2022 Academic Senate of the FMP, CU
  • 2019 – present Chair of the doctoral study school Physics of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
  • 2019 – present Coordination board for doctoral studies in mathematics, physics and informatics, CU
Fellowship and stay abroad
  • 2024 Visiting scientist, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2012 Visiting scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2010 Research fellow, Institute for Materials Research, University Hasselt
  • 2010 Research fellow, Quantum Beam Center, National Institute for Materials Research, Tsukuba
  • 2005 Visiting scientist, Instytut Niskich Temperatur i Badań Strukturalnych, Wroclaw
  • 2002 Visiting junior scientist, Toyama Prefectural University
  • 2000 – 2016 Frequent 2 – 8 week stays in large facilities (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Institute Laue Langevin Grenoble, ANKA Karlsruhe, High-field laboratory Dresden, ELETTRA Trieste)
Awards
  • 2003 Heyrovsky Award
  • 2004 Odehnal Award by the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
  • 2007 Annual Award of the B. Bolzano foundation in Physics
  • 2008 Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for extraordinary achievements in condensed matter physics and materials research
  • 2010 Scopus/Elsevier Award for results of major significance
  • 2014 Otto Wichterle Award for exceptionally outstanding young scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 Representative of the Czech Academy of Sciences in large medial campaign ‘Personalities’ in occasion of its 125th anniversary
  • 2018 Asian Pacific Society Award certificate
  • 2019 F. Behounek Award by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for the promotion and popularization of Czech science and the dissemination of the good name of the Czech Republic in the European Research Area
  • 2021 Ceremonial Strouhal lecture (Current challenges of low-dimensional magnetism)
  • 2023 Outstanding reviewer recognition in Nanoscale Horizons (RSC)
  • 2023 – Top female scientists in the Czech republic FORBES
  • PI of ~20 granted projects with total budget ~ 10.000.000 EUR (H2020 - ERC Starting grant TSuNAMI, 7FP, Czech Science Foundation, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Grant Agency of the Charles University, etc.)
Selected publications

Kesarwani R., Veverka M., Žáček M., Vejpravova J., Varade V., Fekete L, Kalbac M., Unveiling Giant Polarisation Ratio of Chiral Photoluminescence in MoS2 Nanorolligami Fabricated by Centre-to-Edge Rolling Mechanism, Nanoscale Horiz., 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NH00291E; collection: Celebrating 10 Years of Nanoscale Horizons: 10th Anniversary Collection.

Varade V., Haider G., Slobodeniuk A., Korytar R., Novotny T., Holy V., Miksatko J., Plsek J., Sykora J., Basova M., Zacek M., Hof M., Kalbac M., Vejpravova J., Chiral Light Emission from a Hybrid Magnetic Molecule–Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructure, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 3, 2170 – 2181.

Haider G., Sampathkumar K., Verhagen T., Nádvorník L., Sonia F. J., Valeš V., Sýkora J., Kapusta P., Němec P., Hof M., Frank O., Chen Y.-F., Vejpravová J., Kalbáč M., Superradiant Emission from Coherent Excitons in van Der Waals Heterostructures, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2021, 31, 2102196.

Verhagen T., Klimes J., Pacakova B., Kalbac M., Vejpravova J., Anomalous Freezing of Low-Dimensional Water Confined in Graphene Nanowrinkles, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 11, 15587 – 15594.

Verhagen T., Guerra V. L. P., Golam H., Kalbac M., Vejpravova J., Towards evaluation of defects in MoS2 using cryogenic photoluminescence spectroscopy, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 3019 – 3028.

Varade V., Haider G., Pirker L., Panda J., Sykora j, Frank O., Kalbac M., Vejpravova J., Sulphur isotope engineering of exciton and lattice dynamics in MoS2 monolayers, 2D Mater., 2023, 10, 2, 025024.

Miksatko J., Aurelio D., Kovaricek P., Michlova M., Veverka M., Fridrichova M., Matulkova I., Zacek M., Kalbac M., Vejpravova J., Thermoreversible magnetic nanochains, Nanoscale 11 (2019) 16773 – 16780.