Josef Pola, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.

 

Date of Birth :                  2 June 1943

   University Education:    Charles University in Prague, 1965

                                               Ph.D. from Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ICPF), Prague, with Prof. V. Bažant, "Intramolecular Interactions in Oxygen-containing

                                                  Carbon-functional Organosilicon Compounds", 1970.

                                            Dr.Sc. (Prof.) from ICPF, "Chemical Reactions in the Gas Phase Induced by CO₂ Lasers", 1990.

 

Scientific Experience       

1970                     Research Fellow at Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow,(USSR), with          

Prof. L.E.Guselnikov, pyrolytic studies of cyclic siloxanes.

1975                     Research fellow at State University of New York, College of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, (USA), with Prof. M. Szwarc, flash photolytic studies on ion-pairing.

1987                     Research fellow at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay (India), laser induced reactions of fluorocarbons with oxygen.

1991                     SERC Research fellow at School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, (UK),excimer laser induced chemical deposition of germanium.

1992                     Research fellow at Institute of Optics, Madrid, (Spain), double IR laser chemistry in the gas phase.

1994                     SERC Research fellow & visiting professor at School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, (UK), excimer laser induced chemistry of organosilicon compounds.

1995                     Research fellow at National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, (Japan), UV laser CVD of polyacetylene-like materials.

1996                            Visiting professor to Chiba University,

1997                            Research fellow to National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, (Japan), UV laser photolysis of polyphenyldisiloxanes.

1997                     Research fellow to Bergische University, Wuppertal,

                             Generation of transient silenes from silacyclobutanes

1998                            Research fellow to National Institute of Materials and

1999                            Chemical Research, Tsukuba, (Japan), UV laser induced CVD of Si/C, Se and Te.

2000 – 2006        Visiting professor to National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, Japan

UV laser CVD of Si/C/O and Se phases, laser deposition of carbon and metals

 

Invited lectures abroad

1986 Internat. Conference on Lasers in Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Vilnius; 1988 SPIE Conference on Application of Lasers, Bucharest; 1990 Series of lectures at UK universities; 1991 Internat. Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Edinburgh; 1992 Bergische University, Wuppertal; 1993 Symposium on Silicon Chemistry, Indianapolis; 1993 Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH, Zurich; 1994 Bergische University, Wuppertal; 1994, 1996, 1998 Symposium on Radiation and Photo-chemistry, Bombay; 1998, Internat. Symp. on React. Kinet., Sendai; 1999, Internat. Symp. on Perspectives for Molecular Devices, Osaka, 2003 International symposium on Scientific and Industrial Nanotechnology, Osaka;  2004 IUPAC conference on Photochemistry, Granada.

 

Awards:                             Award of Academy of Sciences for chemistry (1989).

1985 - 2008:            Head of Laser Chemistry Group at ICPF, Prague.

Present position:            Senior researcher

 

Specialization:       Laser-induced chemistry, organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, laser chemical deposition

 

Other activities:              supervisor of 9 Ph.D. students and 2 NATO fellows,

organiser of International FECS conferences "IR Laser    Induced Chemistry", 1986, and "Chemistry by Lasers", 1989.

 

Author of over 300 papers, 20 patents and more than 90 communications to scientific meetings.

Principal investigator/coordinator of 10 grants from Czech Grant agencies,  3 NATO grants,   A.I.D. (US) grant and  VW (Germany) grant

 

Recent papers :    1996   1997   1998    1999    2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006    2007    2008