prof. Ing. Aleš Růžička, Ph.D.

Aleš Růžička is a staff member of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice. He has been closely associated with the group of Prof. J. Holeček (since 1993). Since 1999, he has been in a permanent position. In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. and started independent scientific career. He has been author or co-author of more than 350 papers in refereed journals, three chapters in books and three patents. He has presented over 50 lectures at international and domestic conferences.

As a part of his responsibilities, he lead courses of lectures on aspects of Organometallic chemistry, Advanced Inorganic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy and Crystallography. He has been NATO-Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Michael F. Lappert at the Sussex University in Brighton in 2003. He spent additional short term stays and lectured at foreign Universities (Dijon, Zaragoza, Brussels, Saitama, Zürich, Chemnitz, Graz, and KIT Karlsruhe).

Main scientific interest is chemistry of metal compounds, especially of main groups with metal atoms in non-traditional oxidation states.