Our undergraduate student, who just recently defended her bachelor thesis and started her master studies, attended the biggest national conference focused on membranes MEMPUR 2025 and returned home with an award!

This was her very first conference to attend and we are extremely proud to share that she won the Best Student Presentation Award.

She was in the same category as fellow Master and Ph.D. students coming from Czechia and Slovakia too.

Congratulations Adéla, well deserved.

We would like to introduce you to our visiting postdoc, Dr. Katarzyna Knozowska, who is coming from the polish Membranes and Membrane Techniques Research Group led by prof. W. Kujawski.

Katarzyna is an expert in polymer chemistry and applications such as membrane distillation. The main aim of her visit is to expand her knowledge in gas separation.

She will be staying in our lab for 1 month as a postdoc.

More updates from our recently acquired project with Germany!    BTHA-AP-2025-22: In September 2025, Johannes Wieczorek and his supervisor prof. M. Kaspereit from FAU-TVT Erlangen spent 2 days at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Department of Physical Chemistry visiting our lab.

This meeting was focused on polishing the writing our joint article based on our results, and to further explore options to increase our future cooperation.

We also had the chance to visit the Group of Separation Methods led by prof. D. Sýkora from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, to demonstrate possible options to cooperate.

After the meetings, we spent time together to digest all the information by attending self-organised tour in the Old Town area, combined with a walk in the Letná park and finished the evening with a wonderful dinner by the river.

The final meeting of our joint project will be realised in November 2025, by prof. Friess and Daniel visiting the TVT group in Erlangen.

We acknowledge that the funding was provided by the BTHA organisation.

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.