Born: May 20, 1966 in Prague.
Marital Status: married to Iva (born Kratochvilova), four children (Tomas, Matej, Sara and Rut).
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nam. 2, Prague 6, CZ-16610, Czech Republic.
Phone: ++420-220 410 314
FAX: ++420-220 410 320
e-mail: pavel.jungwirth at uochb.cas.cz
http://www.molecular.cz/~jungwirt
M.Sc. in Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. 1989.
D. Phil. at J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Acad. Sci. of the Czech Rep., Prague, Czech Rep., 1993.
Thesis advisor: Professor R. Zahradnik.Research associate at University of Geneva, Switzerland (with Professor J. Weber), 1991.
Research associate at University of Fribourg, Switzerland (with Professor T. Bally), 1992.
Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (with Professor R. B. Gerber), 1994-5.
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Irvine (with Professor R. B. Gerber), 1995.
Group head at J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, 1995-2003.
Visiting researcher at University of California, Irvine, 1998.
Visiting professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2001.
Schonbrunn visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2001.
Visiting researcher at University of California, Irvine, 2004.
Visiting professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2007.
Visiting professor at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 2010.
Research group head at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Acad. Sci. of the Czech Rep., Prague, Czech Republic (since 2004).
Associate professor (external faculty) at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (since 2000).
More than 180 research and review papers in international journals with more than 3800 citations (H-index 30). Several book chapters. Numerous invited lectures at international conferences (including GRC) and research laboratories in Europe, Israel, and USA. Senior editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Hlavka Foundation Prize (1993).
Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994).
Learned Society of the Czech Republic Prize (1996).
NATO Senior Science Fellowship (2001).
Schonbrunn Visiting Professor (Lady Davis Fellowship) (2001).
Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quamtum Molecular Science (2001).
Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2002).
Spiers Memorial Prize of the Royal Society for Chemistry (2008).
Doctor of Sciences from the Czech Academy of Sciences (2009).
Elected member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2009).
Praemium Academie Prize from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2010).
Prof. Heather Allen (OSU), Prof. Steve Bradforth (USC), Prof. Victoria Buch (Hebrew Uni), Prof. Udo Buck (MPI Goettingen), Prof. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts (UC Irvine), Prof. Martin Hof (Heyrovsky Inst.), Prof. Werner Kunz (Uni Regensburg), Dr. Petr Kuzel (Inst. of Physics), Prof. Richard Saykally (UC Berkeley), Dr. Burkhard Schmidt (Freie Uni Berlin), Prof. Doug. Tobias (UC Irvine), Prof. Lai-Sheng Wang (PNNL), Dr. Bernd Winter (MBI Berlin)
Petra Zdanska (from 1995, graduated 1999), Martina Roeselova (from 1995, graduated 2003), Petr Slavicek (from 1999, graduated 2003), Shai Ronen (from 2002, graduated 2005, co-adviser with Prof. O. Cheshnovsky), Martin Mucha (from 2002, graduated 2006), Lubos Vrbka (from 2003, graduated 2007, co-adviser with Petr Nachtigall), Babak Minofar (from 2003, graduated 2007), Robert Vacha (from 2005), Jan Heyda (from 2007), Ondrej Marsalek (from 2008). About 10 diploma (M.Sc.) students.
"Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga com'e bisogna che tutto cambi." ("If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.") From The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.