Zdeněk
Herman
Address for correspondence:
J. Heyrovský
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic
Dolejškova 3
CZ-182 23 Prague 8, Czech
Republic
Tel.: (+420)-266-053-514
Fax: (+420)-286-582-307
Email: zdenek.herman@jh-inst.cas.cz
Title:
RNDr.,
DrSc., Dr.h.c., University Professor
Education:
1944-52
Gymnasium, Kladno
1952-57
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles
University, Prague
Qualifications:
1957 Diploma: Charles University, Prague
(physical chemistry and radiochemistry)
1963 CSc.,
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (kinetics of reactions of metal ions)
1963 RNDr.(Doctor of Natural Sciences),Charles University, Prague
1984 DrSc., Czechoslovak
Academy of Sciences (dynamics of reactions of ions)
1992 Habilitation, Charles University, Prague
1996 Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
Positions held:
1.
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (since 1972 J.Heyrovsky
Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, since 1993 J.Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic)
1957 - 63 Research Assistant
1963 - 68 Junior Scientist
1968 - 84 Scientist
1984 - Senior Research Fellow
1984 -91 Department Head, Research Team Head
1989 - 91 Deputy Director of the Institute
1989 - 01 Member, Scientific Council of the Institute
1995 - 97 Head, Department of Chemical Physics
1997 - 99 Head, Scientific Council of the Institute
2000-2005 Head, Department of Chemical Physics, J. Heyrovsky Institute
2. Charles
University, Prague
1992: Associate Professor (Docent) of Physical Chemistry, Charles University, Prague
3. Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck,
Austria
1993: Honorary Professor of Ion Physics, Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Austria
4. Institute
of Chemical Technology, Prague
1996: Professor of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
Research Interests:
1954-57 Radiochemistry (analytical applications)
1957-60 Mass spectrometry and its applications
1960-65 Kinetics of ion-molecule reactions; charge transfer processes; Penning ionization
1965 - Molecular reaction dynamics, elementary collision processes and their mechanisms; scattering of ions; cluster ions; ion-surface interactions
Temporary positions abroad:
1964-65 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
1966 Research Associate, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
1968-69 Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
1980 JILA Fellow and Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
1984 Visiting Scientist, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
1985 SFB Gast Wissenschaftler, MPI Strömugsforschung, Göttingen, Germany
1986 Royal Society Exchange Scientist, Royal Society Research Unit, University College of Swansea, Swansea, U.K.
1987 Professeur Associé, L.C.A.M., Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France
1989 Gast Professor,
Leopold-Franzens Universität
Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (also 1992, 1994)
1989 SFB Gast Wissenschaftler, MPI Strömugsforschung, Göttingen,Germany
1990 SFB Gast Wissenshaftler, Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1993-97 Visiting Professor, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
1992-97 Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Award Fellow, Strömugsforschung, Göttingen, Germany
2001 JILA Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Other activities:
1975-80 Czechoslovak Representative on EPSEAC (European Physical Society, Section on Electronic and Atomic Collisions)
1979 - Chairman, Section of Chemical Physics, Czech Chemical Society
1985-90 Member, Governing Board, Czechoslovak Spectroscopic Society
1985 - Member, Committee for Doctoral (DrSc) Dissertations in Chemical Physics
1986-88 Participation in the Intercosmos Space Project PHOBOS
1988- Collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (IAEA Panels on Atomic and Molecular Data)
1990-02 Chairman, Committee for CSc Dissertations in Chemical Physics
1990-92 Chairman, Scientific Collegium of Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1990-92 Vice-President, Grant Agency of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1990-01 Member, National Committee for Chemistry of the Czech Republic
1990 -15 Member, International Steering Committee of the European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Collisions MOLEC
1991 - Member, Working Group for Chemistry of the Accreditation Committee of the Government of the Czech Republic
1993-99 Member, Committee for Chemistry, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
1997-01 Member, Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1999 Deputy Chairman, Committee for Doctoral (DrSc) Dissertations in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
2003-06 Vice-President (Conference) of the International Mass Spectrometry Society, Chairman of the 17 International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Prague, 2006
2007-15 Member, Committee for awarding the Czech Prize “Ceske hlavicky” for high school students
Editorial Board of Journals:
1982-97 International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes
1983-97 Chemical Physics Letters
1983-95 Chemical Physics
1987-94 Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
1990-93 Molecular Physics
1990 - Vesmír (Czech popular science journal)
1991-94 Accounts of Chemical Research
1996 -02 Chemical Society Reviews
Awards and Distinctions:
1972,1975,1977,1982 Research Award, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1980 Joint Prize of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of German Democratic Republic for research in reaction dynamics
1980 JILA Visiting Fellow (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1987 Special Award of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1989 I. Marcus Marci Medal of the Czechoslovak Spectroscopic Society
1992 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Germany)
1994 E. Schrödinger Award of the Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics
1995 Special Honorary Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry to 60th birthday (J. Phys. Chem. 99, No.42, 1995).
2001 JILA Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
2003 National Prize Czech Head 2003 for life achievements.
2006 MOLEC Award 2006 (Award of the European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Systems)
2009 Honorary Doctor
Degree, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck.
2009 Special Honorary Issue of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry to 75th birthday (Int. J. Mass Spectrom., Vol. 280, 2009).
2012 Honorary Member. Czech Society for Mass Spectrometry
2014 Establishing the foundation RESONANCE (from donations of friends and colleagues abroad) to award the “Zdenek Herman Prize” for best PhD dissertation in chemical physics and mass spectrometry.
2015 MOLEC (The European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Systems) establishes the “Zdenek Herman Young Scientist Prize”(design selected by the organizers: ZH).
Recent publications:
241. M. Harnisch, P. Scheier, Z. Herman: Heterogeneous reactions between ions NH3+ and NH+ and hydrocarbons adsorbed on a tungsten surface. Formation of HCN+ in NH+-surface hydrocarbons collisions. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 392, 139-144 (2015).
240. M. Harnisch, N. Weinberger,
P.Scheier,Z. Herman: Formation of HCN+ in heterogeneous surface
collisions" Journal of Physics Conference Series 09/2015,635(3) 032019.
239. Z. Herman, S. Černý: Reviewing
the history of more than sixty years of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of
the Academy of Sciencesy (in Czech: Ohlédnutí za více než šedesátiletou
historií Ústavu fyzikální chemie Akademie věd). Chem. Listy 109, 551-585 (2015).
236. M. Harnisch, A. Keim, P. Scheier, Z. Herman: Collisions of low-energy Ar+, N2+, and D2+ ions with room-temperature and heated surfaces of mixed
beryllium-tungsten thin films of different composition. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 365-366, 316-323 (2014).
235. J. Lengyel, R. Gorejova, Z. Herman,
M. Fárník: Proton transfer in
hydrogen-bonded network of phenol molecules: Intracluster
formation of water. J. Phys. Chem. A 117,
11225-11232 (2013)
234. A. Keim, M. Harnisch, P. Scheier, Z.
Herman: Collisions of low-energy ions Ar+ and N2+
with room-temeprature and heated surfaces of tungsten, beryllium, and a mixed
beryllium-tungsten thin film. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 354-355, 78-86 (2013)
231. Odile Dutuit, Nathalie Carrasco,
Roland Thissen, Véronique Vuitton, Christian Alcaraz , Pascal Pernot, Nadia
Balucani, Piergiorgio Casavecchia, André Canosa, Sébastien Le Picard,
Jean-Christophe Loison, Zdenek Herman, Jan Zabka, Daniela Ascenzi, Pietro
Franceschi, Paolo Tosi, Stephen Price, Panayotis Lavvas: Critical review of N,
N+, N2+, N++ and N2++
main production processes and reactions of relevance to Titan’s atmosphere.
ApJS, 204, 20-65 (2013)
230. Z. Herman: Early stages of mass
spectrometry in this country and mass spectrometry in the Institute of Physical
Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences. (in Czech: Začátky hmotnostní spektrometrie u
nás a hmotnostní spektrometrie v Ústavu fyzikální chemie Akademie
věd) Chapter in „History of Mass Spectrometry in Czechoslovakia“, Czech
Society for Mass Spectrometry, Praha 2012, pp. 13-42 (ISBN 978-80-905045-2-3)
229. Z. Herman, J. Žabka, A.
Pysanenko: Survival probability of slow ions
collision with room-temperature and heated surfaces of beryllium. Mol. Phys. 110, 1669-73 (2012)
228. K. Dryahina, B. K. Cunha de Miranda,
P. Španěl, J. Žabka, C. Alcaraz, Z. Herman:
Selected ion flow tube study of ion=molecule reactions of N+(3P) and Kr+ with C3 hydrocarbons propane, propene
and propyne. J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 7310-15 (2011).
227.A. Keim, B. Rasul, N. Endstrasser, P. Scheier, T.D. Märk, Z. Herman: Interaction of small hydrocarbon ions and Ar+ with carbon-fiber-composite surfaces at room temperature Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 306, 204-209 (2011)
226. Z. Herman: Beginnings of mass spectrometry in the Czech Republic: Mass
spectrometry in the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences
II ( in Czech: Počátky hmotnostní
spektrometrie u nás: Hmotnostní spektrometrie v Ústavu fyzikální chemie
Akademie věd II ) Chem. listy 105, 63-93 (2011).
Colleagues
and Friends in Chemistry and Physics (Drawings)
Coll-Friends-2018-FIN-sum1-2-web-pdf.pdf
People
of MOLEC
Keynote
Lecture, Gordon Conf. on Ion Chemistry, 2009, Galveston
Colleagues
and Friends in Mass Spectrometry (Drawings)
Travels
(Drawings)
1-OPENING.pdf; 2-Europe-Vct.pdf; 3-Japan-CBct.pdf; 4-USA-Vct.pdf; 5-USA-Hct.pdf