Prof. Jiří Drahoš has been appointed President of the ASCR for another term

“The Academy of Sciences enjoys my extraordinary attention, because I came out of it, I remember it positively all the time and I am very interested in what is happening within it,” President Václav Klaus said during the ceremonial awarding of the appointment decree and wished Prof. Jiří Drahoš success in his second term. The President of the ASCR then appreciated the President’s interest in this institution and stated that the Academy of Sciences of the CR is a non-university research institution in a standard state. “It functions as it should and the problems that occasionally occur are so we can resolve them. I hope that I will be able to resolve them also in my second term,” said Jiří Drahoš.

 

Jiří Drahoš was born in 1949 in Český Těšín. He studied physical chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (1972), then completed a study stay at the Institute of the Theoretical Bases of Chemical Technologies of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Academy of Sciences of the CR), where he received the degree of Candidate of Sciences in 1977. From 1977, he served in this institute over time as a scientific employee, leading scientific employee, Deputy Director (1992–1995) and Director (1996–2003). In 1994, he became a Reader (Associate Professor) through habilitation for the field of Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, in the same field here he defended his doctorate of sciences in 1999 and in 2003 was appointed as a professor. In 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

 

In 1985–1986, he worked within a stipend of the A. V. Humboldt foundation at the University of Hannover, Germany; he also served as a guest professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The main subject of his professional interest is multiphase chemical reactors.

 

He has published more than 60 original works in high-impact international journals, is the co-author of four foreign and ten Czechoslovak patents. According to SCI, there are more than 700 citation responses to his work. In 1977, he won the prize of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

 

He is a member of the Engineering Academy of the CR, president of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineering, president of the board of directors of the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague and member of the managing board of the Union of Chemical Industry.

 

Within the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, he serves as a member of the executive and at the same time as its president. He is the chair of the commission for granting the degree of DSc. in the field of Chemical Engineering, further a member of the Scientific Councils of the Institute of Chemical Technology and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Faculty of Chemistr y of Brno University of Technology and the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the ASCR. Since 2002, he has been the president of the International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA.

 

He is an editor of international magazine of Chemical Engineering Research and Design and a member of the boards of the journals International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Chemical Engineering & Technology and Clean Products and Processes.

Prof. Jiří Drahoš was Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR in 2005–2009 and since 2009 its president.

 

Photo: Stanislava Kyselová (Akademický bulletin)

Prepared by: Department of Media Communication of the Head Office of the ASCR