The Institute of Geophysics is a public research institution whose mission is to conduct fundamental and applied research in the Earth sciences; to disseminate the outcomes of this research to the national and international scientific community; to maintain a network of Earth observation facilities; and to engage in education at all levels together with informing the public on scientific issues of high societal importance.
The Institute of Geophysics was established in 1920. Our research embraces a broad range of field-based, modelling and theoretical approaches to investigating Earth’s crust, lithosphere and sub-lithosphere structure, geodynamics, magnetism, seismology, volcanism, magmatism and rock-forming processes, solar-terrestrial interactions, and surface processes on Earth (and other planets) including climate, tectonics and the biophysical environment. Earth observation is inherent to the activities of the Institute. We conduct continuous observations of Earth’s physical fields (geomagnetic, seismological, geodynamic and geothermal) at facilities in the Czech Republic together with short- and long-term observational networks abroad. The Institute is involved in data exchange and collaboration with international services and data centres, and in this regard the Institute fulfils the role of a national geophysical service.
Our researchers deliver courses and supervise research students at universities in the Czech Republic and abroad while also contributing to the international community via participation in scientific governance and by serving on the editorial boards of leading peer-reviewed journals. Our ambition is to publish world-class science in the leading international periodicals and to disseminate our findings at major international assemblies. While increasing our international standing and further strengthening global collaborative ties, we are commited to serving the people of the Czech Republic to whom we are responsible. This commitment is manifest in outreach activities, regular media appearances, and lectures and exhibitions aimed at elevating public awareness of our Earth and the importance of science in a civil society together with the role of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS).
