Prof., University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Vice-chairman: Group for Chromatography and Electrophoresis of the Czech Chemical Society
Member: International Committee of the Central European Group for Separation Sciences, International Board of the “Mediterranean Separation Science Foundation Research, Editorial Boards of the international scientific journals: "Journal of Chromatography A" and "Analytical Letters".
Tswett Foundation Award (1988), Hanus medal of the Czech Chemical Society (2004), honorary member of Slovak Pharmaceutical Society, (2004), memorial medals: University of Turun, Poland, University of Messina (2005), Waksmundzki medal of the Polish Academy of Science (2011), Diploma for introducing and developing of new. aspects and phenomena in the theory of separation sciences (17th ISSS, Cluj, Romania 2011).
Research fields: High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Theory, prediction and optimization of HPLC separations, stationary and mobile phases in LC, programmed elution, two-dimensional LCxLC techniques.