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