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UCT Prague - A challenge that pays off
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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague consists of four faculties and several other departments
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Faculty of Environmental Technology
Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
402 Department of Analytical Chemistry | ||
403 Department of Physical Chemistry | ||
409 Department of Chemical Engineering | ||
413 Department of Mathematics (replaced by 446) | ||
444 Department of Physics and Measurements | ||
445 Department of Computing and Control Engineering (replaced by 446) | ||
446 Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Cybernetics | ||
453 Dean’s Office of Faculty of Chemical Engineering |
University Research and Education Centres
504 University Centre UCT Prague - Unipetrol | ||
550 Department of the National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology (NIVB) | ||
554 Department for the History of the Chemical Industry and Applied Chemistry | ||
557 BIOMEDREG | ||
558 Metrology and Testing Laboratory | ||
559 Prague University Analytical Center | ||
560 BAFA | ||
570 Technoparc Kralupy UCT Prague |
The Administration of University Facilities
712 Director´s Office | ||
713 Finance Department | ||
721 Operating Department | ||
723 Sázava Dormitory | ||
724 Volha Dormitory | ||
731 Technical Department | ||
747 Conference Center | ||
748 Recreation facility Jáchymov | ||
749 Recreation facility Pec p. Sněžkou | ||
755 Volha Canteen | ||
756 Club Carbon | ||
757 Zikova Canteen | ||
758 Camping site Běstvina |
Service Departments for all UCT Prague Faculties
827 Department of Physical Education and Sport | ||
832 Department of Chemical Education and Humanities | ||
834 Department of Languages | ||
837 Department of Economics and Management |
Rector's Offices
929 General Practitioner | ||
930 Crèche Zkumavka | ||
938 Department of Internal Auditing | ||
939 Department of Supervision | ||
940 Counselling and Career Centre | ||
955 Project Centre | ||
961 Rector's Secretariat | ||
962 Registrar's Secretariat | ||
963 Department of Education | ||
965 Research and Technology Transfer Office | ||
966 Personnel Department | ||
968 Records Office | ||
969 Supplies Department | ||
971 Finance Department | ||
972 Department of Safety and Risk Prevention | ||
974 Department of International Relations | ||
976 Department of Construction and Maintenance | ||
977 Department of Building Administration | ||
979 Department of Communication | ||
980 Central Laboratories | ||
990 Computer Centre | ||
991 Department of Strategic Planning | ||
992 Hollow Glass Workrooms | ||
994 Technology Transfer Office | ||
995 Department of Operation and Technical Services | ||
996 Department of Public Order | ||
997 Centre for Information Services UCT Library UCT Press |
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998 Vice-Rector's without Portfolio Office |
UCT Prague is a research university primarily focused on technical chemistry, chemical and biochemical technologies, material and chemical engineering, food science, and environmental science. Its cutting-edge facilities and equipment together, with an impressive scientific and research profile, make it an ideal training ground for the managerial, R&D, and public sector leaders of the future.
UCT Prague has four faculties. Its competitive edge lies in its unique “weaving together” of teaching activities with the highest-quality basic and applied research. Across UCT Prague, scientific teams are intensively involved in various national and international cooperative R&D efforts. The Project Centre provides methodological and administrative support to researchers submitting project applications and managing funded projects.
UCT Prague considers the commercialisation of applied research to be an important part of its mission. For that reason, UCT Prague’ss Research and Technology Transfer Office offers researchers support, contributing to extending valourisation of scientific outputs and pursuing the quest for new collaborative partners in applied settings. In 2015, UCT Prague opened Technopark Kralupy, a science and technology hub focused on chemistry for building construction applications, materials engineering, and related fields. The Technopark plays an essential role in UCT Prague’s technology transfer efforts and strategies.
The Research and Technology Transfer Office facilitates internal grants for researchers and students, offers opportunities to compete in prestigious research competitions, and promotes active engagement and participation in student conferences.
UCT Prague is an attractive institution for young scientists and early career researchers, and the Project Centre actively supports hosting and mentoring ECRs, e.g. as part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Here, ECRs can apply for a prestigious start-up grant, the Dagmar Procházková Fund, in order to create their own UCT Prague research groups. Postdoctoral fellows at UCT Prague receive extensive international mobility support for broadening their research horizons.
UCT Prague is actively involved in global scientific efforts and is continuously expanding and deepening its collaborations with partners around the world. The basic pillars of these activities include scientific research projects, inter-university cooperation memoranda, and Erasmus+ agreements. UCT Prague additionally creates and accredits joint study programmes with universities abroad.
Paving the way for the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research Award, UCT Prague is committed to creating collegial working conditions, supporting continuous professional development, and transparent hiring procedures. The Personnel Department co-creates facilities for employees together with the Welcome Centre, which supports employees arriving from abroad, from assisting with the visa process to answering questions about everyday life in Prague. In its determination to be an attractive and welcoming institution for all employees and students, UCT Prague has created a Gender Equality Plan, an executive action initiative.
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Feel free to contact Department of Comunication with any inquiry. The department will provide contact on University scientific staff.
Main contact person
L Mgr. Michal Janovský
b Michal.Janovsky@vscht.cz
e + 420 220 444 159
e + 420 733 690 543
- Room: A205a
Deputy contact person
D Mgr. Jan Kříž
b Jan2.Kriz@vscht.cz
e +420 220 443 799
: +420 728 831 726
- Room A318
Whole team of Department of Comunication
Press releases
- 3. 2. 2024 DETECT! (Deep Tech Creativity) successfully completed the first phase of project activities
- 13. 2. 2024 Hydrogen Academy: a new milestone in clean energy education
- 17. 1. 2024 Jitka Čejková's successful book recently released by prestigious U.S. publisher
- 30. 11. 2023 Material genetics will be pursued by the AMULET project, which succeeded in the Excellent Research Call
- 19. 9. 2023 The Prague Dejvice concept to be completed after 100 years
- 5. 9. 2023 UCT Prague co-founds Prague.bio with goal of connecting research and business sectors
- 1. 9. 2023 Faculty of Environmental Technology celebrates its 70th birthday
- 27. 8. 2023 Prague hosted world’s leaders in catalysis
- 8. 6. 2023 UCT Prague to lead on a new project for boosting innovation and entrepreneurship through deep tech
You can find older press releases in archive.
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Counselling and Career Centre UCT Prague
We offer students and graduates counselling, psychological counselling, soft skills workshops and job offers.
Alumni Club
The Alumni Club of the UCT Prague, brings together alumni and friends of the University. It strives to create a mutual communication platform between the school, alumni and current students. The club offers alumni meetings and lectures by successful alumni.
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Thank you. But it’s not just my success; it’s the success of all the colleagues who performed various preliminary measurements with me. I also could not have succeeded without the support and friendly, stimulating environment at UCT Prague and at home.
I heard that you submitted the project proposal twice, is this true?
Yes. In fact, I even used the content three times. This successful grant proposal was based on my JUNIOR STAR attempt in 2021. Although the proposal received an excellent evaluation, it was not financed. That is why I decided to submit it for the third time, including also an unsuccessful European Research Council Starting Grant attempt incorporating the elements of FAIR scientific data principles and the research team management guidelines.
How will JUNIOR STAR affect your life?
I hope minimally (laughing). But seriously, this grant will allow me to significantly expand my (up to now) small team. This means that I will have to delegate more responsibilities to my colleagues and rely on their abilities and skills. I hope that the project will enable me to figure out how new 2D materials could be used in the field of heterogeneous catalysis.
How did you come up with such an interdisciplinary topic?
The idea evolved as a result of my various experiences and the skills that I acquired during my scientific career, which has been relatively varied. At the beginning of my career, I received excellent laboratory training in Prof. Svoboda’s laboratory at UCT Prague’s Department of Organic Chemistry. For my Master studies, I transferred to the Czech Academy of Science’s Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, where—under the guidance of MSc. Jiřičný and Prof. Hanika—I gained insight into the technological aspects of chemical reactions, gaining my first experiences with heterogeneous catalysis and learning about the importance of various calculation methods. I returned to UCT Prague, this time the Department of Organic Technology, for my doctoral studies. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Čapek, who was very devoted to supporting me, I learned above all to look critically at my experiments and simulation calculations. During my doctoral studies, I also learned many microscopic and spectroscopic techniques that I used in the study of working catalysts during my two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Utrecht University in Prof. Weckhuysen’s group. After my return, I started teaching Catalysis and Technical Catalysis courses at UCT Prague and concurrently started collaborating with Professor Sofer on the topic of 2D materials that have a well-accessible surface, meaning places where catalysed reactions take place. Such surfaces can be directly analysed with surface and microscopic techniques. Compared to conventional porous catalysts, where a significant portion of the surface is hidden in the internal porous system, accessibly surfaces could be investigated.
Why do you say “beyond graphene” in the title of your proposal?
Graphene is the benchmark for 2D materials that launched a revolution in materials science. However, research in the 2D area does not end with graphene. Possibilities for new 2D materials include silicon and germanium, which, unlike graphene, are significantly easier to modify. This means that their properties, such as charge transfer or conductivity, can be “tailored” to required applications. For this project, it follows that we can fine-tune the properties of the 2D supports themselves and monitor the effect of such modifications on the catalytic activity we will observe.
What is the goal of your project?
The main goal of the project is to measure, understand, and describe the effect of the aforementioned modifications of a 2D support on catalytic activity. To this end, we will try new approaches for the preparation of metal nanoparticles on the surface of a 2D support using lithographic methods. We will test a series of model heterogeneously catalysed reactions on these specially prepared materials. Our goal is to monitor what happens to a catalyst created in this way when it is working—i.e. how morphology, structure, and even catalytic activity—change over time. For monitoring this, we will use correlative spectro-microscopy approaches, which means that we will try to get the maximum possible information from same place of one material.
Which tracking methods will you use?
To characterize structure, morphology, or composition, we will use standard techniques such as SEM, TEM, AFM, Raman spectroscopy, and others and non-standard super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Thanks to the latter, we can monitor individual reaction turnovers at a specific place of the material. We will not determine how the reactants disappear from a reaction mixture, but we will monitor each individual reaction turnover on the surface of a catalyst. Here again, the great advantage of a 2D material is that the surface is not “hidden” somewhere in the pores, but it is relatively easily visible for this method. Thanks to this, it is possible to obtain spatially and temporally resolved catalytic activity measures and thus find out how a 2D support participates in this activity and whether a support conveys any information between individual active centres. If we succeed in confirming our hypothesis, this would be a major success of the project, which could lead to new approaches in the design of heterogeneous catalysts. Proving communication conveyance will be very demanding, which is why we also have a backup, more realistic project goal. Materials based on silicon and germanium can also be synthesized in the form of quantum dots. These can be used to display the diffusivity in the porous system of conventional catalysts. The quantum dot method is not new, but the dots currently used are based on heavy metals like cadmium that we can never get back from the material. Replacing such quantum dots with environmentally-friendly ones would make this type of analysis more attractive.
Will you have separate teams for different kinds of research activities?
The teams will be linked, but they will not be tied to one particular department. The core of the team is comprised of colleagues from UCT Prague’s Department of Organic Technology, but researchers from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology will participate as well. I also established cooperation with ETH Zurich, where we will try not only to observe the activity of the prepared catalysts, i.e. how many reaction turnovers we are able to detect per unit of time, but—thanks to their Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) system—we will also able to determine the selectivity of these reaction turns.
Do you have enough space for everyone?
I don’t have enough space. For now, we are using my colleagues’ existing premises. They are accommodating to me and willing to share space with me. I hope that in the near future we will have both office and laboratory space available.
What would you suggest to other grant applicants?
I would advise everyone to do two things. First, persevere and do not cease your efforts in getting your own funding after your first failure. Second, I would suggest keeping an open mind and collecting stimuli from your wider environment with the aim of creating at least a partially multidisciplinary project. Young researchers should not close themselves into the bubbles of their field and workplace. Had I written the proposal only to prepare new materials, I probably would not have received funding. I believe that I managed to convince the grant competition evaluators because I connected my diverse experiences with my desire to understand the connection between how things look and how they work.
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