After serving the two four-years terms stipulated by law, he stepped down on 31 January 2014,[1] and was succeeded by Tomáš Zima.

In 2006–2011 Hampl served in the association of rectors of public, state and private higher education institutions in the Czech Republic, the Czech Rectors Conference, as its Vice-President for public relations and foreign affairs, and Vice-President for creative activities, respectively; in 2011–2014 he served as its President.

[5] In 2011–2015 he was a board member of the European University Association,[6] where he also serves in the Research policy working group (since 2009) and the steering committee of Council for Doctoral Education (since 2013).

[1] During his rectorship three large infrastructure projects were prepared and mostly completed using European structural funds: the biomedical centers in Plzeň [7] and Hradec Králové,[8] and BIOCEV, a biotechnology center in Vestec near Prague shared with six institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Charles University also acquired a large building complex, "Crystal",[9] near the location of Faculty of sports, as well as a double property on Opletalova street in the centre of Prague.