The first humans came to Europe 1.4 million years ago

The oldest currently known human occupation of Europe lies near the town of Korolevo in western Ukraine. New findings by an international team led by Roman Garba from the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, have confirmed that the lowermost layer with the stone tools at Korolevo dates to 1.4 million years ago. Until now, the earliest inhabited location was thought to be Atapuerca in Spain, some 200,000 to 300,000 years later. The results, published in Nature, also show that early hominins took advantage of warm interglacial periods to colonise Europe from the east or southeast. A recent advance in mathematical modelling combined with applied nuclear physics has enabled the precise dating of the Korolevo’s earliest occupation. PhD student Lotta Ylä-Mella from Dpt. of Physical Geography and Geoecology was involved in determining the age of the sediments containing the stone tools.

Published Mar 12, 2024

URGENT- safety information

Today at 9:00 a.m. a mass e-mail came with a ransom request. A total of 6 universities received the e-mail. We are actively solving the matter with the Police, we are proceeding according to their instructions. There is no imminent danger, evacuation according to the Police is not recommended. We remain in normal mode including teaching. We will provide more information as soon as we have the next update.

Published Mar 11, 2024

2024 Career Day at CU

Start date Mar 13, 2024

We’d like to invite you for 2024 Career Day at CU which will take place on March 13 at the Hybernska Campus. This year, we prepared various activities specifically designed for our international students to help you find the right job or grow your career, regardless of the field of your studies.

Published Mar 08, 2024

Our faculty succeeded in the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

The LeishBlock project will be led by Dr. Andreia Albuquerque-Wendt, who will spend 2 years at the Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute and then 1 year at our faculty, where her postdoc supervisor will be Professor Petr Volf from the Department of Parasitology. In the MSCA PF 2023 call, a total of 8039 applicants from all over the world applied for the fellowship, in the Czech Republic 12 applicants were successful.

Published Feb 29, 2024

Prof. George Q. Daley: A Career in Academic Medicine: Hematology and Harvard

Start date Mar 12, 2024

We cordially invite everyone to attend the lecture A Career in Academic Medicine Hematology and Harvard Professor George Q. Daley, Ph.D., Dean of Harvard Medical School, which will be held on March 12, 2024 at 1 pm in the Carolina Hall. The lecture will be held in English. Registration required.

Published Feb 27, 2024

An innovative method for detecting geology hidden beneath the surface

Kurosh Karimi and Günther Kletetschka from the Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, have described a new method for locating bodies hidden beneath the surface. The new method allows estimating the position, especially the depth of the underground structure and was published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Published Feb 20, 2024