Vojtěch Kumpošt, who worked at the Laboratory of Developmental Epileptology of the Institute of Physiology since his bachelor studies, was awarded the 2019 Prize of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in Higher Education, Science, and Research in the category of Master Studies. He received the prize from the hands of Minister Robert Plaga for achieving results that contributed to discoveries in research into the mechanisms of epileptic seizures and were published in the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience. Vojtěch Kumpošt was a student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University; now he works at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.