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Autoportrait: Jiri Urban

Hello,

my name is Jiri Urban and I am glad you found this blog.

Here on chromatographer.com I would like to fulfill two main aims:

1) First of all, I want to raise the blog with focus on the separation methods, mainly liquid chromatography, monolithic stationary phases and hyphenated and multidimensional techniques
2) I know, my written English is not perfect. At all. I would like to improve it with regular writing. And maybe one day, I will be able to write fluently, without any (or only small;) mistakes.

Only you, my reader, can tell me how successful I am. So, please do not hesitate to write me any comments regarding both the chemistry and grammar part of this blog.

Thank you, enjoy stay here

Still curious? … More about me

C.V.

List of publications

I got my PhD in the group of Prof. Pavel Jandera (Pardubice, Czech Republic) and my thesis focused on the characterization of porous properties of both packed and monolithic stationary phases and their impact on chromatographic behavior of the columns.

I spent almost half of my PhD abroad in groups of respected scientists, such as Prof. Michael Cooke (Royal Holloway, London, UK), Dr. Henk Claessens (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Prof. Peter Schoenmakers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Dr. Didider Thiebaut (Paris, France). They were very nice months and I learned a lot. Thank you all, again.

Nowadays, I am working as post-doc in the group of Prof. J.M.J. Frechet and Dr. Frantisek Svec (University of California, Berkeley, USA), where I am focusing on preparation of different kinds of monolithic stationary phases for liquid chromatography and their characterization and applications.

By the way: the picture shows me in old building lab of Faculty of Chemical Technology. Couple of months ago, all faculty moved to the new areal and this lab no more exist. The picture was published in the book One day in the life of the Czech Republic.