People

Name Rulíšek Lubomír
Position Head of the Senior Research Group
Dr. Luboš Rulíšek

Lubomír Rulíšek, Ph.D., DSc.

Head of the Senior Research Team


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

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Education
1996-2001 Ph.D. (CSc.) in theoretical chemistry, under supervision of Dr. Z. Havlas at Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
1990-1995 M.Sc. in physical chemistry at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
 
Experience
2002-2004 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
1999 (1 month) Short term stay at the Department of Quantum Chemistry, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
 
Appointments
since 2013 Head of the Theoretical Bioinorganic Chemistry senior reseach team, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
2007-2012 Head of the Theoretical Bioinorganic Chemistry junior reseach team, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
2004-2006 Head of the Theoretical Chemistry group at the Department of Molecular Modeling, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
2001-2002 Junior scientist at the Department of Molecular Modeling, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
 
Awards and Fellowhisps
2013 DSc. - Doctorate of Science, highest academic title in the Czech Republic.
2006 Otto Wichterle Premium for Younger Scientists, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.
2001 Hlavka Foundation Prize, annual award for outstanding Ph.D. students in Czech Republic.
 
Main research interest
Theoretical bioinorganic chemistry, quantum chemistry, quantum and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods, organic reactivity, computational homogeneous catalysis, biomolecular design, protein-ligand interactions, computational electrochemistry, theoretical spectroscopy.
 
Scientific community activities
2012-2017 Chairman of the IOCB Board.
2009-2011 Member of the IOCB Board.
2012 Member of the COST External Evaluation Panel (CMST Domain).
2010 Leader of the "IOCB at EXPO 2010" team (Molecules for Life) in Shanghai, China.
2008-2011 Associate Editor in the international peer-reviewed journal Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications ; in 2012 CCCC transformed into Wiley's ChemPlusChem)
 
Organisation of conferences
2011 Main organiser of the 4th Japan-Czech-Slovak Symposium in Theoretical Chemistry (Liblice, Czech Republic).
2011 Main organiser of the Quantum Bioinorganic Chemistry (QBIC-3) Conference (Český Krumlov, Czech Republic).
since 2004 Chairman of weekly "IOCB Theoretical Chemistry Seminars".
 
Teaching
since 2008 MSc. Course "Computer Modelling of Chemical Reactions in Condensed Phase and Biomolecules", Charles University, Prague.
 
Mentoring
Supervisor of three Ph.D. students (Martin Srnec, Vojtěch Klusák, both defended in 2010; Ondrej Gutten), five postdoctoral fellows (Tibor András Rokob, Martin Lepšík, Jaccob Madhavan, Cristina Trujillo, Goar Sánchez), and two diploma (MSc.) students (Ondrej Gutten, Václav Navrátil, defended 2010 and 2009, respectively) Co-supervisor of two Ph.D. (Jakub Chalupský, Ivana Beššeová) and one diploma student (Pavel Beran).
 
Rulíšek's Group
In total, 12 scientists (incl. students and postdoctoral fellows) worked in the group in the 2007-2012 period; the average size of the group has been 4-5 scientists.
 
Bibliographic Overview
At present, L.R. has published 66 research articles, mostly in leading journals (the average impact factor of all publications by L.R. is 4.4). L.R. is the first or corresponding (senior) author of 38 papers. 11 papers have been published in top-ranked journals, e.g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (5), Chem. Eur. J. (4), and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. (2), whereas recent contributions include one invited perspective (Dalton Trans. 2012) and one invited review (Coord. Chem. Rev. 2013). Noticeably, 41 papers have been published without a Ph.D or 'postdoc' supervisor among the authors. The work has been cited ~1,300 times (with ~950 independent citations, i.e. with all forms of self-citations excluded; source: ISI WoS, January 13, 2013). LR's H-index is 21 (the 'independent' H-index is 17).
 
Hobbies
Music: playing guitar and flute.
Sport: basketball, long-distance running (2:48:04 at Prague International Marathon in 1998), cross-country skiing (3h 23min at Worldloppet event Jizerská 50 in 2006, 6h 18min in Vasaloppet 2007), triathlon.