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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Awards and Fellowhisps |
2014 |
Fulbright Fellowship – Stanford University. |
| 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. |
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| Main research interest |
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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. |
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| 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) |
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| 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". |
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| Teaching |
| since 2016 |
MSc. Course "Chemical Structure B", Charles University, Prague. |
| since 2008 |
MSc. Course "Computer Modelling of Chemical Reactions in Condensed Phase and Biomolecules", Charles University, Prague. |
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| Mentoring |
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Supervisor of four Ph.D. students (Martin Srnec, Vojtěch Klusák, both defended in 2010; Ondrej Gutten, Daniel Bím), seven postdoctoral fellows
(Tibor András Rokob, Martin Lepšík, Jaccob Madhavan, Cristina Trujillo, Goar Sánchez, Haunani Thomas, Prokopis C. Andrikopoulos, Zahra A. Tehrani),
and three diploma (MSc.) students (Ondrej Gutten, Václav Navrátil, Daniel Bím, defended 2010, 2009, and 2014, respectively).
Co-supervisor of two Ph.D. (Jakub Chalupský, Ivana Beššeová) and one diploma student (Pavel Beran).
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| Rulíšek's Group |
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In total, 17 scientists (incl. students and postdoctoral fellows) worked in the group in the 2007–2016 period; the average size of the group has been 4 –5 scientists.
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| Key Scientific Collaborations (2011-2016) |
- IOCB: Pavel Jungwirth, Jan Konvalinka, Ivo Starý, Michal Hocek, Pavel Hobza, Ullrich Jahn, Josef Michl, Petr Beier
- Domestic: Jana Roithová, Petr Hermann, Pavel Kočovský (Charles University, Prague), Martin Srnec (J. Heyrovský Inst. Phys. Chem. AS CR, Prague), Aleš Růžička (Univ. Pardubice)
- International: Edward I. Solomon (Stanford Univ., U. S. A.), Ulf Ryde (Lund Univ., Sweden), Aleš Svatoš (MPI Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany),
Takeshi Yanai (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan), Tibor András Rokob (Chem. Res. Institute, Hungary), František Tureček (Univ. Washington, U. S. A.),
Sergey Shleev (Malmö Högskola, Sweden)
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| Bibliographic Overview |
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~90 research articles, mostly in leading international journals. LR is the first or corresponding (senior) author of ~50 papers. 16 papers have been published
in top-ranked journals, e.g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (6), Chem. Eur. J. (8), and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. (2), whereas recent contributions include one invited
perspective (Dalton Trans. 2012) and two invited reviews (Coord. Chem. Rev. 2013, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2016). The work has been cited ~2 250 times
(with ~1 700 independent citations, i.e. with all forms of self-citations excluded; source: ISI WoS Core Collection, October 6, 2016). LR’s H-index is 29
(the ‘independent’ H-index is 23).
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| Hobbies |
Music: playing guitar and flute.
Sport: basketball, long-distance running (2:48:04 at Prague International Marathon in 1998),
cross-country skiing (2h 59min at Worldloppet event Jizerská 50 in 2017, 5h 22min in Vasaloppet 2012), triathlon (11h 52min at ironman distances - Slovakman 2007).
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