In August 2025, Professor Mohtada Sadrzadeh from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta (Canada) visited our group.

Prof. Sadrzadeh is the principal investigator from the Advanced Water Research Lab (www.awrl.ca).

The visit aimed to explore possible scientific cooperation between our groups and also international mobility for students and researchers.

Jana attended the biggest Asian conference focused on membranes: the 15th Conference of Aseanian Membrane Society (AMS15) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

She presented 2 different posters, which include some of our recent advances in fine-tuning membrane performance by tailoring their structure.

The results are about to be published in the upcoming months.

Amazing news! Jana became a NCHU (National Chung Hsing University) scholarship holder!

Thanks to this scholarship, she had the opportunity to attend their annual Summer Camp and spend two unforgettable weeks in Taiwan.

This summer camp included various lab sessions, presentations by students and experts from the field, learning more about asian culture and also networking while making new friends and connections in the world of membranes.

You can find a video summary of this camp under this link and more information under this link.

More updates from our recently acquired project with Germany! BTHA-AP-2025-22: In July 2025, Johannes Wieczorek from FAU-TVT Erlangen spent 3 days at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Department of Physical Chemistry visiting our lab.

This meeting was focused on learning more about the membrane synthesis, characterization and writing our joint article based on our results.

We also had the chance to visit the group of prof. Z. Sofer from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, with whom we are cooperating with.

Until November 2025, there will be 2 more mobilities included in this project, funded by the BTHA organisation

Major progression has been made within our recently acquired project BTHA-AP-2025-22: Daniel spent 3 days visiting his former German colleges at the Institute of Separation Science and Technology – FAU Erlangen.

This meeting was focused on learning more about the HPLC, intense writing of an article based on our results and carefully planning the upcoming tasks.

Until November 2025, there will be 3 more mobilities included in this project, funded by the BTHA organisation.

Josef attended the The 40th European Membrane Society Summer School that was focused on the topic: “From Basic Principles towards Industrial Membrane Applications”.

It is a well-estabilished international membrane workshop event, which was this year organized and held at the University of Twente (Netherlands).

Over 80 promising students, postdocs and people from the industry attended this well-known membrane event with a common goal: to learn the latest developments about membranes and membrane industry in general. The workshop also included variety of social events, competitions and interactive scientific lectures.

Our group recently expanded by a commercial analytical device: Electrochemical Impedance Spectrometer provided by Novocontrol Technologies.

It is top-quality, versatile technique for investigating the electrical properties of a variety of different materials by observing the applied AC potential to an electrochemical cell.

Karel gave a scientific speech at the 5th International Conference on Membrane and Separation Processes & 10th Membrane Conference of Visegrad Countries – MEMSEP & PERMEA 2025, which was hosted this year in Poland.

His talk with the title ,,Tailoring the O₂/N₂ separation performance of mixed matrix membranes via magnetic field.” was focused on briefly introducing the audience with our newest materials, which were developed in our group, aiming for an improved air separation via membranes.

https://www.polsl.pl/rie4/mempep_permea_2025/