Pavel Jungwirth#
| Membership Number: | 5770 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | http://jungwirth.uochb.cas.cz/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6892-3288 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2003 Senior Team Leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Acad. Sci. of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic (2003 - ). Distinguished Chair from 2016
- Since 2000 Professor (External Faculty) at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Associate Professor 2000 - 2011, Full Professor 2011 - present)
- 2013 - 2017 Finland Distinguished Professor at the Tampere Institute of Technology (part-time, 2013 - 2017)
- 1995 - 2003 Research group head at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague
- 2001 Schonbrunn visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 2001 Visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine
- 1994 - 1995 Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- Modelling direct and indirect DNA damage
- Structure and dynamics of solvated electrons by electronic structure calculations and photoelectron spectroscopy
- Molecular simulations and neutron scattering experiments of biologically relevant ions in aqueous solutions
- Development of effectively polarizable force fields for biomolecular simulations
- Role of ions in biological transport and signalling
- Modelling of structure and transport processes in cellular membranes
- Hofmeister ion effects in protein salting out/salting in, denaturation, and enzymatic activity
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Humboldt Research Award
- 2015 Jaroslav Heyrovsky Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Praemium Academiae Prize from the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Elected member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (Elected President 2020 - 2022)
- 2009 Doctor of Sciences from the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Spiers Memorial Prize of the Royal Society for Chemistry
- 2002 Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 2001 Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- 2001 Lady Davis Fellowship of the Hebrew University
- 2001 NATO Senior Science Fellowship
- 1996 Learned Society of the Czech Republic Prize for Young Investigators
- 1994 Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1993 Hlavka Foundation Prize for PhD Students
