Science is in our DNA

CATRIN at Palacký University brings together cutting-edge research, international collaboration and the translation of research results into practice.

Conquering Grant Competitions with Excellence

CATRIN has a strong long-term track record in securing research funding, particularly European projects under Horizon Europe, including the most prestigious programmes of the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC). This success has helped establish Palacký University firmly on the map of Horizon Europe funding recipients.

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Our Mission

Thanks to close collaboration between experts in materials science, plant science and biomedicine—and in partnership with leading international institutions—CATRIN scientists deliver solutions to a wide range of pressing global challenges. The materials and technologies being developed are designed to improve quality of life and human health, support sustainable agriculture and food security, enable more efficient use of energy resources (including green energy), and contribute to environmental protection.

Research areas

Chemistry

Agriculture

Translational Medicine

Renewable Energy

Innovative Materials

Nanotechnologies

CATRIN Research Divisions

Advanced materials Nanotechnology Energy

Plant biology Biotechnology Sustainable agriculture

Translational medicine Biomedicine Molecular biology

News

News

CATRIN researchers among the top 2 per cent of most-cited scientists

Members of several CATRIN teams have been included in the latest edition of the Stanford/Elsevier...

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Papers

Plant phenomics has taken on a new dimension. A researcher from CATRIN involved in its development into an independent field

An international team of scientists has presented a new definition and scientific framework for plant...

Events

CATRIN takes part in the Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences

A visit by students from the Secondary Medical School in Karviná marked the start of...

Awards

Congratulations to Pavel Hobza on receiving a state honour

Pavel Hobza, one of the Czech Republic’s most distinguished scientists and a world-renowned computational chemist...

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Projects

Plant diagnostics and treatment. The foundations of a new field are being laid in Olomouc

The PLANTONICS project, launched today at the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute – CATRIN...

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Projects

The REEactor project has been launched. It will simplify the separation of rare earth elements

Olomouc – The new REEactor technology platform addresses the growing demand for rare earth elements...

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Top picks from grants

CATRIN has an extensive portfolio of prestigious international projects and actively offers collaboration opportunities to partners from both academia and the application-driven sector.

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Science & Nature publications

The distribution of CATRIN publications published in 2025 across individual quartiles shows a clear predominance of Q1 publications (72.5%), with a substantial share in the top decile (34.2%). The fact that more than one-third of CATRIN papers are published in the top subject-category decile and nearly three-quarters in the top quartile confirms the team’s exceptional potential to deliver world-class results comparable with leading European research centres.

Z. Ma, N. Rockstroh, Z. Chen, V. Goyal, C. Kuloor, S. Bartling, Z. Baďura, J. Rabeah, L. Dong, H. Lund, B. Nan, R. Zbořil, R. V. Jagadeesh and M. Beller

"Iron-based single-atom catalysts for selective ammoxidation of C(sp3)–H bonds and oxidative C–C cleavage reactions",

NATURE CATALYSIS, vol. 9, pp. 389–403, 2026.
IF = 48.3

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01513-y

D. Ko, R. Ruonala, A. Faille, E. Hellmann, H. Help, H. Liu, R. Nielsen, A. Haakonsson, N. De Diego, A. Paatero, M. V. Shcherbii, K. Stefanowicz, S. Ćavar Zeljković, T. Drud Lundager Rasmussen, O. Novak, Z. Bodi, G. Eswaran, B. Wybouw, M. Bourdon, C. Urbez, X. Liu, K. Salokas, T. Öhman, T. Waldie, P. Törönen, S. el-Showk, M. Balcerowicz, F. Besnard, X. Liu, P. Perkins, S. Mazzoni-Putman, J. P. Vainonen, M. Sierla, M. J. Frilander, S. Mandrup, T. Vernoux, K. Ljung, A. Ferrando, M. A. Blazquez, L. Holm, R. Fray, M. Varjosalo, O. Leyser, V. O. Paavilainen, A. P. Mähönen, A. Stepanova, J. Alonso, S. Heber, R. Malinowski, F. Kirpekar, A. J. Warren and Y. Helariutta

"Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate",

SCIENCE, vol. 391, iss. 6786, pp. 694-699, 2026.
IF = 47.3

CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1126/science.adx2867

D. Panáček, V. Kupka, M. Nalepa, I. Dědek, R. Álvarez-Diduk, S. Olenik, J. Flauzino, J. Zdražil, P. Jakubec, L. Zdražil, L. Spíchal, K. K. Sonigara, R. Zbořil, M. Pumera, A. Merkoçi, J. Wang, N. De Diego, F. Güder and M. Otyepka

"Printing technologies for monitoring crop health",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 17, article no. 2009, 2026.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-MAT CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68778-6

C. Kuloor, V. Goyal, Z. Ma, F. Poovan, D. Peña Fuentes, W. Baumann, J. Zhao, R. Zbořil, M. Beller and R. V. Jagadeesh

"General and selective ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogenation of primary amides to primary amines under mild conditions",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 17, article no. 3525, 2026.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69794-2

B. Gupta, V. Shrivastav, S. Sundriyal, A. A. Melvin, M. Holdynski, A. Kuhn and W. Nogala

"Bipolar electrochemical tweezers using pristine carbon fibers with intrinsically asymmetric features",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, article no. 10061, 2025.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65036-z

R. Arshad, I. Skalidis, D. Kopečný, S. Brabencová, M. Opatíková, P. Ilík, P. Pospíšil, F. Hamdi, S. Ćavar Zeljković, M. Kopečná, P. Roudnický, D. Lazár, E. Elias, R. Croce, P. L. Kastritis and R. Kouřil

"Cryo-EM structure of photosystem II supercomplex from a green microalga with extreme phototolerance",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 17, article no. 341, 2026.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65861-2

M. Kaur, S. Rej, J. Navrátil, E. Y. Santiago, M. Otyepka, S. Livraghi, L. Mino, Š. Kment, Z. Xu, H. Zhu, P. Fornasiero, A. O. Govorov, P. Błoński and A. Naldoni

"Near-infrared plasmonic activation of molecular oxygen for selective oxidation of biomass derivatives",

NATURE CATALYSIS, vol. 8, iss. 12, pp. 1370-1381, 2025.
IF = 48.3

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01454-y

L. Zdražil, A. Cadranel, G. Zoppellaro, A. Günay-Gürer, Z. Baďura, D. Panáček, H. Kmentová, C. Otero, Š. Kment, M. A. Huergo, E. Fonda, R. Zbořil and D. M. Guldi

"Enzyme-inspired single-atom photocatalysis for oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, article no. 10949, 2025.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67189-3

O. Henrotte, S. Saris, F. Gröbmeyer, C. G. Gruber, I. Bilgin, A. Högele, N. J. Halas, P. Nordlander, E. Cortés and A. Naldoni

"Spatially resolved photocatalytic active sites and quantum efficiency in a 2D semiconductor",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, iss. 1, article no. 6904, 2025.
IF = 18.1

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62284-x

S. Song, A. Pinar Solé, A. Matěj, G. Li, O. Stetsovych, D. Soler, H. Yang, M. Telychko, J. Li, M. Kumar, Q. Chen, S. Edalatmanesh, J. Brabec, L. Veis, J. Wu, P. Jelinek and J. Lu

"Highly entangled polyradical nanographene with coexisting strong correlation and topological frustration",

NATURE CHEMISTRY, vol. 16, iss. 6, pp. 938-944, 2024.
IF = 20.2

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01453-9

M. Grabarics, B. Mallada, S. Edalatmanesh, A. Jiménez-Martín, M. Pykal, M. Ondráček, P. Kührová, W. B. Struwe, P. Banáš, S. Rauschenbach, P. Jelínek and B. de la Torre

"Atomically resolved imaging of the conformations and adsorption geometries of individual β-cyclodextrins with non-contact AFM",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 15, iss. 1, pp. 9482, 2024.
IF = 15.7

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53555-0

A. B. Tesler, S. Kolle, L. H. Prado, I. Thievessen, D. Böhringer, M. Backholm, B. Karunakaran, H. A. Nurmi, M. Latikka, L. Fischer, S. Stafslien, Z. M. Cenev, J. V. I. Timonen, M. Bruns, A. Mazare, U. Lohbauer, S. Virtanen, B. Fabry, P. Schmuki, R. H. A. Ras, J. Aizenberg and W. H. Goldmann

"Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater",

NATURE MATERIALS, vol. 22, iss. 12, pp. 1548-1555, 2023.
IF = 47.656

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01670-6

A. Cheruvathoor Poulose, G. Zoppellaro, I. Konidakis, E. Serpetzoglou, E. Stratakis, O. Tomanec, M. Beller, A. Bakandritsos and R. Zbořil

"Reply to: Primary role of photothermal heating in light-driven reduction of nitroarenes",

NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 327-328, 2023.
IF = 40.523

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01353-y

M. Opatíková, D. A. Semchonok, D. Kopečný, P. Ilík, P. Pospíšil, I. Ilíková, P. Roudnický, S. Ć. Zeljković, P. Tarkowski, F. L. Kyrilis, F. Hamdi, P. L. Kastritis and R. Kouřil

"Cryo-EM structure of a plant photosystem II supercomplex with light-harvesting protein Lhcb8 and α-tocopherol",

NATURE PLANTS, vol. 9, iss. 8, pp. 1359-1369, 2023.
IF = 17.352

CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01483-0

Z. Wang, S. Shaabani, X. Gao, Y. L. D. Ng, V. Sapozhnikova, P. Mertins, J. Krönke and A. Dömling

"Direct-to-biology, automated, nano-scale synthesis, and phenotypic screening-enabled E3 ligase modulator discovery",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, article no. 8437, 2023.
IF = 14.919

CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43614-3

P. Patil, Q. Zheng, K. Kurpiewsk and A. Dömling

"The isocyanide SN2 reaction",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 5807, 2023.
IF = 14.919

CATRIN-BIO

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41253-2

B. Mallada, M. Ondráček, M. Lamanec, A. Gallardo, A. Jiménez-Martín, B. de la Torre, P. Hobza and P. Jelínek

"Visualization of π-hole in molecules by means of Kelvin probe force microscopy",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 4954, 2023.
IF = 14.919

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40593-3

A. Cheruvathoor Poulose, M. Medveď, V. R. Bakuru, A. Sharma, D. Singh, S. B. Kalidindi, H. Bares, M. Otyepka, K. Jayaramulu, A. Bakandritsos and R. Zbořil

"Acidic graphene organocatalyst for the superior transformation of wastes into high-added-value chemicals",

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, article no. 1373, 2023.
IF = 14.919

CATRIN-MAT

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36602-0

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Collaboration is the foundation of our success

We are developing an extensive network of collaboration with universities, research institutions, industry partners and the public sector. Together, we turn scientific knowledge into innovations that contribute to a healthier society, more sustainable technologies and a better future.

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