doc. Ing. et Ing. Vilém Neděla, Ph.D., DSc.

He is an internationally recognised expert in the field of electron microscopy, to which he has devoted more than 20 years at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚPT AV ČR), where he has been working under the supervision of Prof. Rudolf Autrata since 2001. During this time he carried out the modification of a scanning electron microscope into an environmental scanning electron microscope AQUASEM II. In 2021 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technologies (FEKT) of the Brno University of Technology, his alma mater, and in 2024 he was awarded the prestigious scientific degree of DSc by the Czech Academy of Sciences.

In 2021 he introduced a new microscopic method called Advanced Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (A-ESEM). He founded two laboratories at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, equipped with a prototype of the microscope AQASEM-II, which he redesigned and modified, and a modified high-resolution electron microscope QUANTA 650 FEG. In his research, based on mathematical and physical simulations, he developed new methods, techniques and signal electron detectors for high-resolution imaging of electrically non-conducting, often highly sensitive samples.

He is the author of more than 70 original scientific articles in high-impact journals and his work has been cited more than 1,300 times according to the SCOPUS database. Since 2001 he has been teaching at two departments of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communications of the Brno University of Technology. He has worked for several international institutions and companies, mainly in Japan and Austria. Since 2009 he has been the chairman of the organising committee, lecturer and laboratory workshop leader of the Autumn School of Electron Microscopy, which is one of the largest electron microscopy schools in the world. It has been organised every two years for more than 20 years by the Institute of Scientific Instruments ASCR of the Czech Academy of Sciences, together with other institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Brno-based manufacturers of electron microscopes. It has been awarded a prestigious prize for the best scientific article by the Japanese Microscopy Society.