Czech conference CHISA was held in Hotel Jezerka, Sec. Karel Friess had keynote lecture “Membrane processes for gas separation:History, developement and future”. Marek’s poster about MMMs based on polyimides was awarded by Dekonta a.s. company.

Petr, Kristian and Markéta participated at Student membrane workshop organized by CZEMP in Stráž pod Ralskem. Kristian and Petr presented works were awarded by Polish Chemical Society.

Karel Friess with two doctoral students – Marek and Martina participated in conference organized by EMS and NAMS. It was the inspiring week on Azores with a lot of disscusion about the membrane research directions and industrial needs.

Karel Friess visited KU Leuven in Belgium and spoke on Forward Osmosis (FP) – Gas Separation (GS) workshop (30-31/08/2017) about our new progress in MMMs and graphene oxide membranes preparations.

Kryštof received the Ph.D. diploma and Ondřej was officialy habilitated during a ceremony at Bethlem chapel.

We have organized a lab bowling afternoon in Bowling Dejvice. We have accompaied by Pavel Izak from ICCP and John Jansen (ITM-CNR, Italy) and his student, who is now at UCT, Martina Reina.

For the first time, the purely membrane conference in the Czech Republic was organized. It was called MEMPUR and we went there for 3 days to Pardubice. Our staff and students presented 1 plenary, 3 orals and 4 poster presentations in total. Miroslav won the poster prize and Marek UCT Prague Rector award for the oral presentation.

EWM2017 Engineering with membranes was hold in Singapore (26-28 april 2017) by Nanyang Technological University. Karel and Marek presented oral presentations focused on polyimides and graphene oxide membranes for CO2 separations. Marek also had poster presentation on PI membranes for biogas treatement.

Karel visited KAUST again in 20-23 February 2017. He was invited for a lecture at AMPMC KAUST research conference . Among 34 speakers from the top laboratories over the world, he presented our achievements in new mixed matrix membranes design with controlled embedding of nanoadditives. And he also met with Petr and Mirek who spent 6 months at KAUST within their study-stays.

During the traditional Christmas concert of UCT Prague, Marek obtained the Rector award for his activities in student part of academic senate and popularization of science.