e-mail: jminar@ntc.zcu.cz
tel.: +420 377 634 771
Prof. Dr. Ján Minár has been working at NTC since 2017, where he leads the Research Team for Advanced and Quantum Materials. In Pilsen, he has built a strong international team that uniquely combines theoretical modeling with experimental material studies. He is the principal scientific manager of the project "Quantum Materials for Applications in Sustainable Technologies (QM4ST)", supported within the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC).
Ján Minár studied theoretical and physical chemistry in Bratislava, earned his PhD and habilitation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and later obtained another habilitation and full professorship at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He is a member of the Slovak Chemical Society, the Center for Nanoscience (CeNS) at LMU Munich, and the German Physical Society. He regularly serves as a reviewer for major grant agencies (DFG, SFN, FWF, DOE, NSF).
At NTC, he focuses on developing theoretical methods for describing the electronic structure of solids and interpreting experimental electron spectra. He established a state-of-the-art laboratory for spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SARPES) and significantly contributes to the study and design of new functional materials. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications, including articles in Nature, and co-author of a study confirming a new type of magnetism known as altermagnetism.
e-mail: honner@ntc.zcu.cz
tel.: +420 377 634 720
Prof. Ing. Milan Honner, Ph.D. leads the Infrared Technologies team. Milan Honner´s entire professional career is focused on applied research in this field. The results of the research, in which professor Honner participated, were applied in more than a hundred industrial companies and research organizations in the Czech Republic and abroad for instance in KIEKERT-CS, ŠKODA AUTO a.s...His research relates to industrial technologies for volume and surface treatment of materials, especially with the use of lasers, measuring systems based on IR detectors for thermo-diagnostics of machine mechanisms, thermographic methods for quantitative measurement of temperature fields, and heat transfer in various technical and non-technical systems, materials with photo-thermal functional properties for heat-transfer by radiation and laboratory methods for measuring these properties. In connection with the COVID19 pandemic, he with his team also turned their attention to research on measuring people's temperature with IR cameras.
e-mail: milossvo@ntc.zcu.cz
+420 377 634 744
The team of Miloš Svoboda - Engineering of Electrochemical Processes (IEP) deals mainly with the development of innovative types of redox flow batteries, which enable safe, efficient, and long-term storage of large volumes of electricity. He and his team are involved in the EU #Horizon2020 project - HIGREEW.
His team also deals with defectoscopic analysis of materials using Xraymicrotomography, which is a frequent subject of contract research, in which they cooperate for instance with ZF Engineering Pilsen, Valeo Žebrák, Johnson Matthey...
He remained faithful to the family tradition and like his father he studied chemistry, particularly at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (UCT Prague) - chemical engineering. In 2014, he completed an internship in the USA at the University of Notre Dame by Professor Hsueh-Chia Chang, focused on ion exchange systems at the microscale. If Miloš Svoboda is not involved in work, family, or sports, you will probably meet him at the shooting range. He is particularly interested in the topic of dynamic shooting or shooting under difficult conditions.
e-mail: jvychyti@ntc.zcu.cz
tel.: +420 377 836
Jan Vychytil deals with the development of virtual human body models in impact biomechanics and leads the HBM team. He specializes mainly in the field of traffic safety. The main application is the prediction of injuries in various scenarios of traffic accidents through computer simulations. But it doesn't have to be just traffic accidents, he also took part in research concerning the death of former CZ diplomat Jan Masaryk, for example. The HBM team has long-term cooperation with MECAS ESI, FN Plzeň, and ÚPMD Praha. Jan Vychytil is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Honza received his doctorate in 2009 in the field of continuum mechanics. "During my Ph.D. studies, I took an internship in the company FirstNumerics in Wales. Thanks to this internship, I gained experience in R&D in the commercial sphere, met friends from abroad, whom we meet today, and learned to cook," he says. When asked if he wanted to be a researcher from an early age, Honza answers: “As a boy, I wanted to be a fisherman. I thought sitting by a pond with a rod was a job. When it turned out not to be the case, my path to research led me through not the best school marks in physics...Transformation into a study type happened at the end of high school."
e-mail: toko@ntc.zcu.cz
tel: +420 377 634 808
Ing. Tomáš Kovářík, Ph.D., is engaged in research in the field of materials chemistry, with a focus on hierarchically porous inorganic composites. His research aims to modify materials using various non-toxic nano- and microparticles, thus achieving improved structural and surface properties..
He leads the Chemical Processes and Biomaterials (CPB) team, which specializes in hybrid techniques for the preparation of aluminosilicate foams, porous bioglass using the sol-gel method, and the preparation and characterization of nanodispersions of carbon nanoparticles. The team also studies the thermal stability of materials using STA: TGA/DSC thermal analyses.
Tomáš is also involved in the excellent research project MEBioSys, where he leads parts focused on transferring mechatronic solutions from nature, specifically the research area of surface modification and nanostructuring of biomaterials. This includes laser-induced micro- and nanotexturing, thermodiagnostics, as well as bioactive functionalization and surface characterization.
Jan Sedláček graduated from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he also received his doctorate. He completed an internship at the University of Genova and Siemens AG Berlin. He has been working on NTC since the establishment of the center.