The Lumina Quaeruntur fellowship was established by the Academy Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences as an instrument to support scientific excellence in the CAS. It is intended to award outstanding prospective researchers in setting up new scientific teams at the research institutes of the CAS to allow developing their science programme focused on conceptually new topics that significantly shift the frontiers of knowledge.

Six award-winning scientists are chosen every year, and Ondřej Kuda was among them in 2018.