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Staff

Name	Špirko Vladimír
Position	Scientist

Vladimír Špirko, Ph.D.

Scientist

Department of Computational Chemistry
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, v.v.i.
Flemingovo nám. 2, CZ-166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Phone: (+420) 220 410 317
Fax: (+420) 220 410 320


Education
1990	DrSc. (D.Sc.) in Molecular Spectroscopy, 1990, J.Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague.
1968	CSc. (Ph.D.) in NMR Spectroscopy, 1968, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague.
1964	Ing. (MSc.) in Nuclear Chemistry, 1964, Faculty of Technical and Nuclear Physics, Czech Technical University, Prague.

Appointments
Since 2004	Senior scientist at the Center for Complex Molecular Systems and Biomolecules, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
1989-2003	Senior scientist at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
1967-1989	Scientist at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague.
1964-1967	Junior scientist at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague.

Experience
1972-1973	The Royal Society, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Exchange, Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
1981-1982	Visiting Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, Canada.
1984-2002	Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck-Institut of Astrophysics, Germany (2-4 months a year).
1988-1992	Visiting Professor at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark (2 months a year).
1991	Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Exeter, England (2 months).
1992-1995	Visiting Professor at the Quantum Theory Group, University of Waterloo,Canada (2-3 months a year).
1996	Visiting Professor at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, Germany (1 month).
1998	Visiting Professor at the Quantum Theory Group, University of Waterloo,Canada (2-3 months a year).
1998-1999	Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, USA (2 months a year).
1999, 2002	Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, USA (3 and 2 months).
2004	JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow, Ibaraki University, Japan (2 months).

Membership in Editorial Boards
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy

Academic Appointments Abroad
Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Research interest
Dynamics of flexible molecular systems undergoing conformational and isomerization motions Highly excited and continuum molecular states Computational methods