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Materials scientist Dušan Galusek is the laureate of the ESET Science Award 2026

The eighth annual ESET Science Award has announced its laureates. Dušan Galusek, who heads the FunGlass Center at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín in Trenčín, was named an Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia. In the category “Outstanding Scientist Under 35,” the award went to Marián Janík, who works at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, while the title of “Outstanding Academic” went to Iveta Waczulíková, a professor of physics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava. The Public Choice Award went to biochemist Pavol Čekan, founder and director of the biotechnology company MultiplexDX.

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ESET Science Award Finalists Prove that Cutting-Edge Science Is Emerging in Slovakia

Bratislava, 9 September 2025 - ESET Science Award will again this year honour scientists who bring innovation and enrich the public debate with facts and verified information. For the first time, the finalists include personalities from the social sciences and humanities. The laureates of the three categories - Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia, Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia Under the Age of 35 and Outstanding Academic in Slovakia - will be selected by an expert committee, while the first two categories will be decided by an international jury. The award ceremony will take place on 9 October 2025.

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Materials scientist Dušan Galusek is the laureate of the ESET Science Award 2026

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Martin Kahanec named the outstanding scientist in Slovakia. An international jury led by Nobel Laureate Edvard Moser has selected the laureates of the ESET Science Award 2025

Nobel Laureate Edvard Moser will lead the international jury that will select the laureate of the ESET Science Award. The public can vote for their favourite today

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Ben Feringa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016. In the interview, he describes his eureka moment when he became the first in the world to create a small molecular engine with his team. These may one day become a way to better target treatment or develop materials that can be self-repaired.

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As Nobel physics laureate Kip Thorne visits Slovakia, Slovak scientists recall how science competitions shaped their careers

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Carolee Winstein & Larisa Anne Thorne: Women in science still face prejudice and gender bias

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Plastic waste in the Danube and the effort to clean it up

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How nanotechnology may help future cancer patients

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The elusive 'neutrino' and what it can tell us about our universe

You may have never heard of a 'neutrino', but this elusive subatomic particle could hold important clues in our understanding of such phenomena as the heat rising from the centre of the earth, or super nova explosions occurring many light years away. Radio RTVS speaks with Fedor Šimkovic - a nuclear and sub-nuclear physicist at Bratislava's Comenius University who specialises in neutrinos, and laureate of the ESET Science Award - about these fascinating particles and why it's important that we understand them.

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