Doc. Lucie Zemanová and doc. Miroslav Lísa at the Department of Chemistry of FoS UHK successfully completed the habilitation procedure.
Author: Kristýna Vávrová
Doc. RNDr. Lucie Zemanová, Ph.D., has completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Charles University in Hradec Králové in the field of Biochemistry. Her habilitation thesis analyzed the importance of enzymes from the AKR and SDR superfamilies in humans.
She graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the University of Pardubice with a Master's degree in Biological Materials Analysis. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, in the field of Pathobiochemistry and Xenobiochemistry where she defended her dissertation The Role of Reductas in Cancer and where she also worked as an assistant professor.
In the past, Associate Professor Zemanová researched the purification, preparation and characterisation of human enzymes, particularly the reductases of carbonyl compounds from the AKS and SDR superfamilies. A significant part of her work so far has been devoted to the enzymes of the reductase family of the carbonyl compounds bound to cell membranes. Most recently, she has also studied the possibilities associated with the modulation of activities of selected enzymes as potential molecular targets for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
Even though her research takes up most of her time, she enjoys expanding her horizons in other fields, attending electronic music concerts, festivals and theatre performances, and travelling the world with her husband to see the beauties of nature.
Doc. Ing. Miroslav Lísa, Ph.D. has habilitated in analytical chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, by a thesis on the use of chromatography and mass spectrometry in lipidomic analysis.
He completed his Master’s degree at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, where he also completed his postgraduate studies and defended his dissertation titled Characterization of Triacylglycerol Composition in Natural Samples by HPLC/MS Technique. He has been Head of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UHK, since 2017. In 2016 he was awarded the Vladimír Hanuš Prize for best scientific work in the field of mass spectrometry by the Spectroscopic Society of J. M. M. (2016). And in 2014 he was featured on the Power List, a list of the 40 most influential scientists under 40 in analytical chemistry (Top 40 under 40 list) by the expert panel of The Analytical Scientist magazine.
In his research, he focuses on mass spectrometry in conjunction with chromatographic techniques, liquid chromatography and supercritical fluid chromatography, the development of methods for the analysis of small molecules, lipidomic analysis of plant materials and plant samples, as well as the evaluation of mass spectra (including HRMS) and the study of retention and fragmentation behaviour.
