Slavíček Petr

Prof. RNDr. Bc. Ph.D.
Born May 19, 1976 in Olomouc

• Physical and theoretical chemistry
• Member of Learned Society since 2017

Educational and professional preparation

• 2011-2015 Charles University, Catholic Theological Faculty, B.Sc.
• 1999–2003 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ph.D. in Molecular Physics
• 1994–1999 Charles University, Faculty of Science, Chemistry, M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry

Employment and academic positions

• 2015–now Professor, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic
• 2006–now Research Associate, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, AS CR
• 2015 Visiting Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (short stay)
• 2010 Visiting Professor at Université Lille, Lille (short stay)
• 2009–2015 Associate Professor, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
• 2009 Visiting Professor at Université-Marne-La-Vallee, Paris (short stay)
• 2006–2009 Assistant Professor, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
• 2003–2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Prof. Todd Martínez

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

• Scientific board of FCHI, UCT Prague
• Board of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Academic Senate, UCT Prague
• Editorial Board, Vesmír journal
• Executive board, Resonance foundation

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

• American Chemical Society (member)
• International Max Planck Research School Dynamical processes in atoms, molecules and solids
• COST Action 1404 - member of management comittee  and working group leader

Notable awards

• Neuron prize for young scientists (2016)
• Learned Society Prize, Younger Scientist Award for innovative study of photochemical reactions by quantum chemical methods (2015)
• Award of the Chairman of Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) (as co-PI of a project lead by M. Fárník) for grant project Dynamics of solvated electrons in molecular clusters: Experimental and theoretical approach (2014)
• Award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for pedagogical activities (2012)
• DAAD fellowship
• NATO Fellowship

Selected publications

• Observation of electron-transfer-mediated decay in aqueous solution. I. Unger, R. Seidel, S. Thurmer, M. N. Pohl, E. F. Aziz, L. S. Cederbaum, E. Muchová, P. Slavíček, B. Winter, N. V Kryzhevoi, Nature Chemistry, 9 (2017) 708.
• Relaxation Processes in Aqueous Systems upon X-ray Ionization: Entanglement of Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics. P. Slavíček, N. V. Kryzhevoi, E. F. Aziz, B. Winter, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7 (2016) 234.
• Proton-Transfer Mediated Enhancement of Nonlocal Electronic Relaxation Processes in X-ray Irradiated Liquid Water. P. Slavíček, B. Winter, L. S. Cederbaum, N. Kryzhevoi, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014) 18170.
• On the Nature and Origin of a Reactive Molecular Species Formed in Liquid Water upon X-ray Irradiation S. Thürmer, M. Ončák, N. Ottosson, R. Seidel, U. Hergenhahn, S. E. Bradforth, P. Slavíček, B. Winter, Nature Chemistry 5 (2013) 590.
• A Fully Size-Resolved Perspective on the Crystallization of Water Clusters. C. Pradzynski, R. Forck, T. Zeuch, P. Slavíček, U. Buck, Science 337 (2012) 1529.