prof. RNDr. Jiří Dědina, CSc., DSc.

   He graduated in physical chemistry from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (1969) and in 1975 he defended his CSc. (Candidate of Sciences) dissertation in the field of physical chemistry. Since 1974 he has been working in Complex of Biomedical Institutes at Krc in Prague: he started in Institute of Physiology, of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and since 1993 he has been working in Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the AS CR. At the Institute, he has been the head of department of trace element analysis (since 1993) and a member of the Scientific Council (since 2007, vice-chairman since 2012). Since 1985 until 2006, he spent 35 months in collaborating laboratories in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Greece, Canada, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa. In 2008, he received a degree DSc. (Doctor of Sciences) in analytical chemistry and in 2014 he was appointed to a full professor of analytical chemistry at Charles University in Prague. He acts as an external lecturer and a supervisor at Faculty of Science of the university and as a co-supervisor of PhD students from foreign universities.

    Current research interests of Jiří Dědina include (i) generation and collection of volatile compounds for trace and ultratrace element analysis and for speciation analysis and (ii) atomization of volatile compounds for atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence spectrometry. He is an author of a monograph on hydride generation, several book chapters, 68 papers in impacted journals and 8 patents. Over 1400 citations of his journal and book publications without self-citations according to SCI (h-index 23). He presented around 40 invited lectures at important international conferences. He has been a principal investigator of eight grant projects of Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Grant agency of AS CR, AS CR and of two grant projects sponsored by NIH/FIRCA (USA) and UNC School of Public Health (USA). In 1998, he was awarded by the Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal from the Spectroscopic Society of Ioannes Marcus Marci.