Members

Mgr. Aleš Stýskalík, Ph.D.

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Academic and professional background

2019 - now: Junior Researcher, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2017 - 2019: MSCA Individual Fellow, Damien P. Debecker, UCLouvain, Belgium
2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, Craig E. Barnes, University of Tennessee, USA
2011 - 2015: Ph.D. student, prof. Jiří Pinkas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Aleš Stýskalík obtained his Master and Doctoral degrees in Materials Chemistry at Masaryk University. During his studies, he developed new non-hydrolytic sol-gel syntheses for the preparation of several important classes of micro/mesoporous materials with large surface areas – silicophosphates, organophosphosilicates, metallosilicates, and inorganic-organic hybrid materials derived from them. He acquired a significant international experience: a semester at University of Cologne, Germany (Erasmus) and two summer stays at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. After finishing his Ph.D. he obtained a postdoc position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (1 year). Later, he worked as a MSCA-IF postdoc fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (2 years). During his post-doctoral stays he gained a considerable experience in heterogeneous catalysis. He re-joined Masaryk University in 2019 and started to establish a new research group focused on materials chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.

Quoc Thai Bui, Ph.D.

About Thai

Thai Bui works as a postdoc in our group. At the moment he is synthesizing new silica-based materials functionalized with basic amine groups. He will use these materials in CO₂ capture and try to convert it to added-value chemicals.

Mgr. Lucie Leonová

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About Lucie

Lucie pursues her Ph.D. studies with us. She is preparing aluminosilicate materials, modifies them with hydrophobic groups and applies them in ethanol dehydration and epoxide ring opening reactions.

Mgr. Martin Kejík, Ph.D.

About Martin

Martin fell in love with single-site materials and building-block synthesis. He successfully embeds aluminum, phosphorus, and antimony into silicates and characterize these well-defined materials by a combination of solid state NMR with DFT calculations.