On Wednesday, March 25, 2025, RNDr. Eva Majková, DrSc., received the highest honor of the Slovak Academy of Sciences—the SAV Gold Medal—from the hands of the Academy’s President, Dr. Martin Venhart. The Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is an expression of recognition for Eva Majková’s scientific contributions to the development of Slovak science and her achievements in building a research environment capable of standing up to international competition.
“I really enjoy these moments when we can look back on the work of the people on whom our institution has relied for several years,” stated Martin Venhart at the outset, as he presented this highest institutional honor for the first time in his capacity as President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Eva Majková is one of the most prominent materials physicists and experts in the fields of materials science, nanoscience, and nanotechnology in Slovakia. She has worked at the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 1972. In 1995, after returning from a stay at the University of Nancy, she founded the Department of Multilayers and Nanostructures, focused on research into various types of nanomaterials. From 1999 to 2007, she served as director of the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) and later, for two terms, as vice-president of the SAV for science and research. She served as director of the newly established Center for the Utilization of Advanced Materials (CEMEA) of the SAV from its inception in 2017 through 2021. As E. Majková emphasizes, “CEMEA is the result of observing similar institutions abroad; it is a jewel of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and I would be delighted if it became an inspiration for other institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences as well.”
“Dr. Majková is a distinguished, internationally recognized scientific figure in the field of materials science. She has achieved her most significant results in the field of research on ultrathin multilayers, nanolayers, nanoparticles, and other nano-objects using in situ small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering methods at a small angle of radiation incidence on the sample,” explained Pavol Hvizdoš, Vice President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for the 1st Division of Sciences. The full text of the laudation is published HERE.