• Rules of the contest
• Posters:
  2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
• Contact addresses
• Steering committee
  
  
• The 2024 prize was awarded to Mgr. Viktor Skoupý, PhD., for the thesis Gravitational wave templates from extreme mass ratio inspirals; for more details click here
• The 2023 prize was awarded to Dr. Daniele Ferretti for the thesis Contact interactions for many-particle quantum systems in dimension three; for more details click here
• The 2022 prize was awarded to Dr. Simon Lukas Becker for the thesis Spectral gaps for many-particle systems, semiclassical analysis of graphene, and quantum dynamics; for more details click here
• The 2021 prize was awarded to Dr. Francesco Di Filippo for the thesis Beyond general relativity: modified theories and non-singular black holes; for more details click here
• The 2020 prize was awarded to RNDr. Arman Tursunov, PhD., DSc., for the thesis Astrophysical processes in the field of compact objects; for more details click here
• The 2019 prize was awarded to Dr. Andrea Giusti for the thesis On the corpuscular theory of gravity; for more details click here
• The 2018 prize was awarded to RNDr. Tomáš Husek, PhD., for the thesis Some aspects of the low-energy QCD at the precision frontier; for more details click here
• The 2017 prize was awarded to Dr. Dalimil Mazáč for the thesis Explorations in the conformal bootstrap; for more details click here
• The 2016 prize was awarded to Ing. Jakub Železný, PhD., for the thesis Electronic structure and magnetic properties of antiferromagnetic semiconductors and metals; for more details click here
• The 2015 prize was awarded to Ing. Jan Vysoký, PhD., for the thesis Geometry of membrane sigma models; for more details click here
• The 2014 prize was awarded to Dr. Nicolai Friis for the thesis Cavity mode entanglement in relativistic quantum information; for more details click here
• The 2013 prize was awarded to Mgr. Jaroslav Trnka, PhD., for the thesis Grassmannian origin of scattering amplitude; for more details click here
• The 2012 prize was awarded to Dr. Sergej Moroz for the thesis Few-body physics with functional renormalization; for more details click here
• The 2011 prize was awarded to Dr. Steffen Gielen for the thesis Geometric Aspects of gauge and spacetime symmetries; for more details click here
• The 2010 prize was awarded to Mgr. Petr Marek, PhD., for the thesis Non-classicality of quantum states: decoherence and purification; for more details click here.
• The 2009 prize was awarded to Mgr. Ludovít Lipták, PhD, for the thesis Aspects of thermodynamics nad confinement in the lattice formulation of QCD; for more details click here.
• The 2008 prize was awarded to Mgr. Lenka Zdeborová, PhD, for the thesis Statistical physics of hard optimization problems; for more details click here, for a published version of the thesis click here.
• The 2007 prize was awarded to Mgr. Miroslav Ježek, PhD, for the thesis Quantum measurement and reconstruction with applications in optics; for more details click here.
• The 2006 prize was awarded to Ing. Michal Malinský, PhD, for the thesis Quark and lepton masses and mixing in supersymmetric grand unified theories; for more details click here.
• The 2005 prize was awarded to Dr. Daniele Oriti for the thesis Spin foam models of quantum spacetime; for more details click here.
• The 2004 prize was awarded to Mgr. Kateřina Němcová, PhD, for the thesis Solvable models of quantum systems with non-trivial geometry; for more details click here.
• The 2003 prize was awarded to Mgr. Jaromír Fiurášek, PhD, for the thesis Conditional generation, reconstruction and cloning of quantum states of light; for more details click here.

Rules of the contest

1. The prize is awarded officially every year on December 19 for the best theoretical-physics doctoral dissertation defended during the three previous academic years; it is handed over at a festive opportunity, usually shortly before that date.
2. The prize comes with an (indivisible)  financial award of 50000 Czech crowns (before tax). In addition to the main prize, the jury may distinguish other presented work.
3. The contest is open to everybody independently of his or her university or institute provided his/her age does not exceed thirty years at the moment of the application^*. It is considered as a preference if the work follows the scientific legacy of  Professor Votruba.
4. The deadline for applications in the running year is September 30. A written application together with personal data, a copy of the thesis, and a document confirming its successful defence should be submitted to the steering committee of the contest. The candidate should also submit an electronic version, preferrably in a pdf form. He or she may attach copies of the referee reports; the jury has the right to choose additional referees to evaluate the submitted theses.
5. The contest takes place if at least three theses are presented. In case of a lesser number of applications the works are automatically transmitted to the next-year contest.
6. The Doppler Institute pledges to assist at advertising the winning results. 

• Votruba Prize Committee, Department of Theoretical Physics, NPI AS CR, 25068 Rez near Prague
• Doppler Institute, FNSPE CTU, Brehova 7, 11519 Prague 1

Steering committee