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Prof. Radek Zbořil, Ph.D. (born 1973) is Czech physicist with specialization on nanomaterial research. He is a professor at the Palacky University Olomouc and the general director of the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) in Olomouc, Czech Republic (EU).

Research interest

 * Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications (MRI contrast agents, targeted drug delivery, proteomics), rare polymorphs with exceptional properties (epsilon-Fe2O3), biosensors and electrochemical applications
 * Nanocrystalline oxides for catalysis and photocatalytic splitting of water, and lithium batteries
 * Graphene and its derivatives, covalent and non-covalent functionalization
 * Carbon quantum dots and their hybrids, biomedical applications for dual imaging
 * Advanced materials for water treatment technologies and catalysis
 * Silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial, disinfection and medical applications, toxicity of silver nanoparticles, silver nanocomposites

Career

 * 1996 -  Master degree in Mathematics and Chemistry, Palacky University Olomouc
 * 1998 - Institute of Materials Sciences, National Center for Scientific Research „Demokritos“, Athens, Greece – synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedicine
 * 1998 - Wits University, Johannesburg, JAR – pressure induced solid-state transformations
 * 1999 - Company ThermoMicroscopes, the branch in Geneva – AFM training
 * 2000 - Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece – low temperature Mössbauer spectroscopy
 * 2000 - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, USA – study of superparamagnetic materials
 * 2000 - Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo – TEM training
 * 2000 - Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry, Palacky University Olomouc
 * 2001 – 2002 - Lecturer at Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Palacky University Olomouc
 * 2001 – 2003 - Lecturer at Department of Physical Chemistry, Palacky University Olomouc
 * 2004 - Institute for Physical High Technology, Jena – VSM magnetic measurements training
 * 2005 – 2010 - Scientific director of Centre for Research of Nanopowdered Materials
 * 2006 - Associate professor in Physical Chemistry
 * 2010 - Professor in Physical Chemistry
 * 2010 - General Director of Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials

Grant activities
He collaborated on more than 50 grants projects. Prof. Zboril s a principal investigator / co-worker / author of the proposal: 32 grant projects with subsidy for Palacký University over 48 mil. EUR.

His most important international project is 7FP-NMP: Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment (2013-2017; investigator for UP).

Publications
Professor Zbořil is an author and co-author of more than 370 papers with the total impact factor over 2 000. He is the corresponding author of many ACS journals, e.g., Chemical Reviews, ACS Nano, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials.

He is also the first and/or corresponding author of other top journals in the field of materials science and nanotechnologies including Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Nano Today, Advanced Functional Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Biotechnology Advances, Biomaterials, Small, Green Chemistry.

Prof. Zboril is also a co-author of more than 20 proceedings and book chapters published by, e.g., American Chemical Society, Wiley or American Institute of Physics.

His publications have received over 10 400 citations (in 2014: more than 1 800 citations/year – TOP 5 most cited Czech scientists in 2013). H-index=45. 19 publications with more than 100 citations.

Citation data: September, 2016 

Awards and membership

 * 2016 - Victory in the category Chemistry, agriculture, health care and biotechnology with the invention of System and method for verification of product authenticity, International Exhibition of Technical Innovations, Patents, and Inventions INVENT ARENA
 * 2015 – City Olomouc award for the year 2014 in the field of science and research
 * 2011 – Minister of Education Youth and Sport Award for extraordinary results achieved in the field of research, experimental development and innovations
 * 1998 – Minister of Education Youth and Sport Award for work in the field of thermal decomposition of ferrous sulfate heptahydrate
 * Member of Czech Chemical Society
 * Member of American Chemical Society
 * Member of Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association
 * Member of Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society
 * Member of the board of the programme ALFA of Technological Agency of the Czech Republic
 * General Chairman of Nanocon conference
 * Member of The Learned Society of the Czech Republic
 * Member of Scientific board of the benevolent fund Neuron