Patrik Španěl has been appointed a Presidium member of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR)

Prof. Patrik Španěl has been appointed GACR Presidium member (the Czech Science Foundation) in charge of Agricultural and Biological-Environmental Science. The GACR Presidium is appointed by the Government of the Czech Republic upon the nominations of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation. It is composed of five members representing the five basic scientific disciplines – Technical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Medical and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Agricultural and Biological-Environmental Sciences. Congratulations!

RNDr. Patrik Španěl, Dr. Rer. Nat., studied plasma physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, and obtained a doctoral degree in ion physics in Innsbruck. He conducts research on ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase, with a focus on using mass spectrometry for trace gas analysis. He played a key role in developing the SIFT–MS method, which is used in the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries. He is actively applying this method in various interdisciplinary fields, including biological, environmental, veterinary, food, and medical research. He serves as the department head, chairman of the board and vice-director at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS. He is also a professor at Imperial College London and the author of >300 publications with >13,000 citations. He previously served at the Czech Science Foundation as a member of panel 206 and as chairman of OK2.

The Czech Government also appointed Prof. Milan Jirsa to head the Czech Science Foundation.