Education:
2010 - Master degree (Ing.) in organic chemistry (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague)
2017 - Ph.D. in organic chemistry (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Thesis: Liquid-crystalline molecular switches)
Professional experience:
1.9.2010 – Member of the Liquid crystal group, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i.
10.4.2013 – 30.4.2013 Short time stay: M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Advisor: prof. Alexey Y. Bobrovsky. Topic: Preparation and studies of photosensitive LC polymers and composites and study of their optical properties.
1.3.2015 – 15.5.2016 Short time fellowship via COST IC1208: Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Advisor: Ppłk. dr. hab. Inž Przemyslaw Kula, Topic: Synthesis of chiral quaterphenyl dopants for LC mixtures.
7.12.2017 – 29.3.2019 Postdoctoral fellowship: Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies PAS, Łódź, Poland, Advisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Piotr Kaszyński, Topic: Supramolecular materials designed for fundamental studies and energy conversion technologies.
1.2.2022 – Head of the Organic materials synthesis group (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i, Prague, Czech republic)
Langauges: Czech – Native speaker
English – C1 level
Memberships:
1.11.2009 – Czech Chemical Society
Expertise and skills:
Organic synthesis, Physical organic chemistry, Theoretical chemistry (Gaussian, Firefly), Photochemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Structure analysis of organic compounds, NMR spectrometry (expert), EPR (basic level), Microscopy (orthoscopic methods, POM), Thermal analysis (DSC), Photo-optical studies of organic photosensitive materials and composites.
