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Dr. František Foret is a deputy head for scientific affairs of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and head of the Department of Bioanalytical instrumentation therein . He received his M.S. degree in inorganic and physical chemistry at Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1981. He stayed at Slovak Technical University, Bratislava as a research scientist in 1981 During 1981 -1982 he worked at Military service as a head of the airport laboratory in Czechoslovakia. In 1982 he got a position as a staff scientist at Institute of Analytical Chemistry of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1991. The topic of his thesis was Theory, Practice and Instrumentation of Capillary Zone Electrophoresis. He spent his postdoctoral training at Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 1991 - 1992. During years 1991-2001 he was at Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA as a staff scientist and group leader. Since 2001 he is Department Head at Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the AS CR, Brno.
These days he supervises graduate and doctoral students, and manages research projects with academic and industrial partners. He brought five PhD students to a successful defense in 2005-2010. He is frequent PhD examiner in domestic and international universities. His industrial experience is following: consulting Astra, USA, 1993, Periodontix, USA, 1994, Caliper, USA, 1995 – 2000 and People’s Genetics, USA, 2000 – 2001. Research Collaborations with Villa Labeco, Slovensko, 2009, Gyros, Sweden, 2001 – 2003 and Applied Biosystems, USA, 2002 - 2004. His research interests include microcolumn separations of biologically important substances, microfluidics and nanotechnology, mass spectrometry coupling and laser induced fluorescence. He is author of over 100 publications in international peer reviewed journals including a monograph on capillary electrophoresis, 9 book chapters, dozens of invited and plenary lectures at international conferences and 16 (13 international) issued patents. WoS citations over 4000; H-index 40. Founder and organizer of the international symposium CECE 2004,5,6,7,8,10,11. Chairman of the organizing committee of the international conference MSB 2010. Editor of the yearly special issue of Electrophoresis on Miniaturization – since 2001.
He serves the professional community a Deputy Editor of Electrophoresis (2001 – present), member of Editoral Boards of Journal of Chromatography A (1997–2012), Journal of Separation Science (2002 – present), Journal of Microcolumn Separations (2000 – 2002), Electrophoresis (1999 – 2001), Biomacromolecular Mass Spectrometry (2004 – present), Current Analytical Chemistry (2005 - present), Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods (2005-2007), and The Open Proteomics Journal (2007 - present). He also served as Secretary of the Chemical section of the Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2003 – 2006), Analytical Chemistry panel of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2009-10 Head of the panel), 2009-12. Associate Director - CASSS – An International Separation Science Society, Emeryville, CA, USA (2009 - present).
He received several honors and scholarships: Visiting Scholar, University of Tasmania, Australia, 2011, Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic - since 2011, DCU International Visitors Programme Award 2007-2008, Visiting professor, Nanchang Hangkog University, China, 2007-2010, DCU International Visitors Programme Award, Dublin IE, 2007-2008, John N. Hatsopoulos Scholar, USA, 1998, Barnett Fund for Innovative Research, USA, 1994.
Zdeněk Glatz • UBCH SCI MUNI • Group leader, Professor
Dr. Zdeněk Glatz (*1958) is a full professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Brno and a group leader of metabolomics group of Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC). He graduated at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (former University of J. E. Purkyně) in 1982 specialization Teaching of Biology-Chemistry for Secondary Schools (summa cum laude). The topic of his diploma thesis was “Optimization of chromium determination in drinking water”. In 1982 he received the title RNDr. (Rerum Naturalium Doctor). Since 1982 he was an assistant professor (1982 – 2000), an associate professor (2000 – 2007) and a professor (2007 – present) at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Brno. In 1993 he defended the thesis „Analytical Biochemistry of Quinoproteins“ there and received the scientific degree CSc. (Candidatus Scientarium) in Biochemistry corresponding to the degree of Ph.D. He spent his postdoctoral training at the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA under supervision of Professor M. Novotny in 1992 – 1993. He gives undergraduate lectures on Biochemistry, Biochemical methods and Methods of protein separation and graduate lectures on Separation methods, Metabolomics and Capillary electromigration methods. He is guarantee of all biochemical study programs at Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Brno. He supervises undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, and manages research projects with academic and industrial partners. Five PhD students were brought to successful defenses; currently four doctoral students are supervised.
His research interests include application of modern separation methods in biochemical research especially CE and HPLC in combination with UV-VIS, LIF, CCD and MS detection. He is the author of 59 papers mostly in highly impacted international scientific journals, 3 patents and1chapter in foreign book. H-index (according to Web of Science) is 15. The total number of citations is 670.
Jakub Grym • IACH ASCR • Postdoc
Jakub Grym (*1976) received his Ing. degree from Brno Technical University (Faculty of Chemistry) in 2001 and Ph.D. degree from Masaryk University in Brno (Faculty of Science) in 2010. As an employee at the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry he has been working on the development of miniaturized systems for separations and mass spectrometry coupling.
Zdeněk Hurák • DCE FEE CTU • Group leader, Assistant professor
Dr. Zdeněk Hurák (*1974) is an assistant professor at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague and the head of the aa4cc group. He received his Ing. degree (equivalent to M.Sc. or Dipl.Ing.) in aerospace electrical engineering (summa cum laude) at Military Academy, Brno, Czech Republic, in 1997. While staying as a teaching assistant at the same institute, he was awarded Boeing Fellowship in 1999, which supported his 3-month stay at Iowa State University, Ames, USA. In 2000 he started his Ph.D. study in cybernetics and robotics under supervision of Michael Šebek at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, and defended it in 2004 with the thesis on l1 optimal control (some results published in the prestigious SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization). He was a visiting researcher at TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2008.
These days he gives graduate lectures on optimal and robust control and undergraduate lectures on modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. He supervises graduate and doctoral students, and manages research projects with academic and industrial partners. His research interests include numerical algorithms for optimal and robust control, especially within the polynomial (algebraic) framework, and applications of advanced control schemes in electromechanical systems such as inertially stabilized camera platforms, piezoelectric micro-manipulators and even non-contact micro-manipulation such as dielectrophoresis. He serves the community as a chair of Control Systems Chapter of Czech-Slovak Section of IEEE, and as a member of the editorial board of Kybernetika and Automa journals.
Karel Klepárník • IACH ASCR • Researcher
Dr. Karel Klepárník (* 1951) is a senior scientist at the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the AS CR, v. v. i. He received his M.S. degree in chemical engineering at the Technical University in Brno in 1974. Since 1980, he was a staff scientist at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He defended his thesis, "Theoretical study on the transport phenomena in field-flow fractionation” and received Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry in 1987. In years 1990 - 2001, he became involved in the research and development of capillary electrophoresis for DNA sequencing and mutation detection at the Department of Electromigration Methods. Since 2001, he is responsible for the research of applications of modern analytical methods, microfluidic devices and nanotechnology in molecular biology and medicine at the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation. He supervises diploma and doctoral theses and manages research projects with academic and industrial partners. His research interests include theoretical and experimental aspects of analytical separations, numerical modeling, mass spectrometry interfacing, laser-induced fluorescence, fluorescence microscopy, surface enhanced Raman spectrometry and analytical applications of micro- and nanotechnologies in molecular biology and medicine. He is the author of 42 papers mostly in highly impacted international scientific journals, 2 US patents, 3 chapters in foreign books, 33 lectures (including invited) at international symposia. He obtained following scientific fellowships: Institute of Chromatography C.N.R., Rome in 1992, 1994, 2005;The Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston 1995, 1997, 1999; The Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Helsinki 2004.
Jana Křenková • IACH ASCR • Researcher
Dr. Jana Křenková (*1979) is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the AS CR, v. v. i. She received her M.Sc. degree in Analysis of Biological Materials (2003) and Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry (2007) at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. During years 2007-2010, she was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA working on development of enzyme and nanoparticle-modified monolithic materials for bioanalytical applications. In 2010, she joined the group of Frantisek Foret at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry in Brno. Her research interests include monolithic materials, enzymatic reactors, nanoparticle synthesis, and separation/mass spectrometry coupling. She received the Otto Wichterle Award 2011 and Josef Hlavka Award 2012.
Gurtner Martin • DCE FEE CTU • Graduate student
Martin Gurtner is a graduate student who has been conducting research in the domain of manipulation by shaping force fields. In particular, he has been working on both instrumentation and signal processing for estimation of levitation height of particles above the planar electrode array (such levitation occurs as a consequence of dielectrophoresis).
Tomáš Michálek • DCE FEE CTU • Graduate student
Tomáš is a first-year graduate student who is conducting research in the domain of mathematical modeling and control design for dielectrophoresis-based micromanipulation.
Jan Partyka • IACH ASCR • PhD student
Jan Partyka (*1985) is a doctoral student supervised by Dr. František Foret since 2010. He received his Mgr. degree (M.Sc.) in analytical chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, in 2010. His currect doctoral research in the area of bioanalysis of a very small samples is conducted in the labs of Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentations, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i.
Ondřej Peš • UBCH SCI MUNI • Assistant professor
Ondřej Peš (*1982) is an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno. He received his M.Sc. degree in analytical chemistry in 2006 and defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Multidetection platform for microcolumn separations” at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno in 2010. His current research is predominantly focused on ICP-MS, MALDI-MS and other hyphenated analytical techniques.
Pavel Podešva • IACH ASCR • PhD student
Pavel Podešva (*1981) is a doctoral student supervised by František Foret since 2007. He received his Ing. degree (M.Sc.) in chemistry at Technical University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, in 2004. His currect doctoral research in the area of bioanalytical methods using microfluidics and nanotechnology started in 2007 after one year of employment at AS CR.
Jan Přikryl • IACH ASCR • PhD student
Jan Přikryl (*1983) received his master degree (Mgr.) in time-resolved luminescence and proteomic applications of 266 nm laser at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, in 2007. He is a doctoral student at Institute of Analytical Chemistry of ASCR since 2008 and his current doctoral research is focused on laser-induced luminescence and surface-enhanced Raman spectrometry. His interests include LabVIEW programming and designing in SketchUp.
Roman Řemínek • UBCH SCI MUNI • PhD student
Roman Řemínek (*1984) is a doctoral student supervised by Zdeněk Glatz since 2008. He received his Mgr. degree (M.Sc.) in analytical biochemistry at Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno in 2008. At the beginning of doctoral studies he spent 6-month research stay in Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium under the supervision of Dr. Ann Van Schepdael. His current research is focused on the development of the systems for in-capillary studies of enzymatic reactions by means of capillary electrophoresis.
Michael Šebek • DCE FEE CTU • Professor
Prof. Michael Šebek (*1954) is a full professor and the head of the Department of Control Engineering, to which the aa4cc group belongs. He has spent major part of his research carreer with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, starting with his CSc (Ph.D.) degree earned in 1981 under supervision of Prof. Vladimír Kučera. In 2004 he was appointed an associate professor and in 2004 a full professor at Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2000 he has been also managing the multidisciplinary Centre for Applied Cybernetics comprised of several academic and industrial institutions from all around Czech Republic. He also held several visiting positions at the Universita di Padova, Italy in 1985; Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland in 1986; Universiteit Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands in 1990/91; ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1994/95; as well as a number of short visiting appointments.
His life time research interests are in the domain of polynomial (or algebraic) methods for control design, in which domain he earned an international reputation, having published more then 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, with more then 500 citations registered by WoS, with the h-index evaluated to 12. Editorial work is an important part of Michael's professional life. For many years, he worked for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board on preparation of the prestigious CDC and ACC conferences. He also served as an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control.
Michael Sebek co-founded PolyX Ltd, Prague, the company producing Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab - a software for systems, signals and control based on polynomial methods. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). He was a founding member of the Czechoslovakia IEEE Section and is currently a member of the Section Executive Committee. He founded and for many years chaired the Czech IEEE Control Systems Society Chapter. He currently works in the Executive Committee of Central European Chapter of the IEEE Engineering Management Society . Within IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) , Michael served as a Policy Committee member and, most recently, the as the Vice-Chair. He has also been working in the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control. He was the General Chair of the successful 16th IFAC World Congress in Prague in 2005 which was the largest Automatic Control Conference ever. He was the General Chair of the IEEE CACSD Conference in Taiwan in 2004 and organized many other smaller conferences. Michael is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Currently, he is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and represents the Czech Republic in the European Union Control Association (EUCA) a member of its Administrative Council.
Josef Tomandl • UBCH SCI MUNI • Associate professor
Dr. Josef Tomandl is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry of Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University. He received his M.Sc. in Biochemistry at Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno (1989) and Ph.D. degree in Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry at Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University Olomouc in 1999. He has a clinical experience in non-government health establishment at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University since 1996; from 2008 he has been managing this establishment. He supervises graduate and doctoral students. He brought one Ph.D. student to a successful defense in 2010.
His research activity is focused on bioanalytical chemistry (HPLC, imunochemical assays) and diagnostic studies of biological compounds.
He is an author and co-author of over 60 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including one patent applied in the Czech Republic. WoS citations over 145; H-index 6.
Jiří Zemánek • DCE FEE CTU • PhD student
Jiří Zemánek (*1984) is a doctoral student supervised by Zdeněk Hurák since 2009. He received his Ing. degree (M.Sc.) in cybernetics and measurement with major in artificial intelligence (summa cum laude) at Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2009. His currect doctoral research in the area of noncontact micromanipulation using dielectrophoresis was started as early as in his final diploma project. This work was partly conducted in the labs of Micro and Nano Scale Engineering Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Dr. Yves Bellouard.