People

Name Jungwirth Pavel
Position Head of the Senior Research Group

Prof. Pavel Jungwirth, Ph.D.

Head of the Team

Laboratory of Pavel Jungwirth
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS
Flemingovo nám. 2, CZ-166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

☎: (+420) 220 183 184

www: http://www.molecular.cz/~jungwirt

 
Education
1984-1989 M.Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague.
1990-1993 Ph.D. (CSc.) in Computational Chemistry, under supervision Prof. R.Zahradník at J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Acadademy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague.
 
Experience
1991 Research associate at University of Geneva, Switzerland (with Professor J. Weber).
1992 Research associate at University of Fribourg, Switzerland (with Professor T. Bally).
1994-1995 Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (with Professor R. B. Gerber).
1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Irvine (with Professor R. B. Gerber).
1995-2003 Reasearch group head at J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, ACSR, Prague.
1998 Visiting researcher at University of California, Irvine.
2001 Visiting professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2001 Schonbrunn visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2004 Visiting researcher at University of California, Irvine.
2007 Visiting professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2010 Visiting professor at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
 
Appointments
Research group head at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Acad. Sci. of the Czech Rep., Prague, Czech Republic.
Associate professor (docent) at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
 
Awards and Fellowhisps
1993 Hlávka Foundation Prize.
1994 Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1996 Learned Society of the Czech Republic Prize.
2001 NATO Senior Science Fellowship.
2001 Schonbrunn Visiting Professor (Lady Davis Fellowship).
2001 Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
2002 Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
2008 Spiers Memorial Prize of the Royal Society for Chemistry.
2009 Elected Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.
2010 Praemium Academie Prize from the Czech Academy of Sciences.
 
Teaching
1996-2008 Advanced course "Classical and quantum molecular dynamics" at Charles University in. Prague.
2001 Graduate course "Computational methods in atmospheric chemistry" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2007 Graduate course "Molecular Spectroscopy" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2009 Advanced course "Advanced Methods of Molecular Dynamics" at Charles University in Prague.
2009 Advanced course "Methods of Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo" at Charles University in Prague, with Martina Roeselova.
 
Research interest
Molecular simulations of ions at aqueous interfaces, including interactions of ions with proteins and membranes, chemistry of aqueous aerosols, structure and dynamics of solvated electrons, etc. The aim is to understand at a molecular level ion specific effects for protein structure and dynamics, biomembranes, as well as for microdroplets of aqueous solutions.