Welcome Dr. Sabarish Radoor, our newest postdoc who joined our group in September 2026 thanks to a MSCA Scholarship. His role in our group in the upcoming two years will be the preparation and application of Janus membranes for liquid separation processes.
Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes
Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes
Karel and Saeed attended and gave presentations at the 3rd International Congress on Separation and Purification Technology (ISPT 2026) – held in Sitges, Spain.
This internatonal conference was held between 6-9 September 2026, and is one of the most well-known and biggest conferences in the field of separation processes.
Saeed not only presented but was also the chairman for the Gas Purification session. His talk was focused mostly on introducing novel 3D COF materials and their application within MMM’s.
On the other hand, Karel gave an interesting talk about polysulfone based membranes, which were further on modified by adding magnetic MOF particles.
Daniel just published his third 1st author article ”Investigation of 2D-carbon-based membranes with adjustable pores for aqueous low-pressure ultrafiltration” at the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Q1, IF 7.5).
The results used in this work were mainly achieved during his BTHA 1 year-long stay at FAU-TVT in Germany in the group of prof. Kaspereit.
Amazing job, a clear example when collaborations pay off big time!
We would like to invite you to this years MELPRO 2026 international conference hosted in Prague.
The conference starts on the 4th of October and ends on the 7th of October.
Karel will have a plenary lecture with the title ”Demonstrating the Potential of Molecular–level Engineering for the Preparation of Highly Efficient Composite Materials for Targeted Gas Separations”.
The registration for poster submission is open until 31.8.2026, don’t miss this final chance!
Link to the conference.
Karel had an interesting presentation at the 28th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering – CHISA 2026, hosted in Prague.
His talk was focused on novel membrane materials and recently achieved milestones of our lab.
We are honored to announce that today, August 12, 2026, the founder of our working group and a very important academic person in the history of UCT Prague, Associate Professor Milan Šípek, celebrates a significant life anniversary – his 90th birthday!
The domestic and foreign academic community (not only) in the field of Membrane Separation Processes is indebted to the birthday for his contribution, energy, and ideas, with which he significantly influenced the education and research of many generations of students, graduate students, colleagues from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Institute of Chemical Technology, as well as other domestic and foreign scientists.
Moreover, Milan is also the co-founder of the legendary carnival Kachekran.
Since 1959, he has carried on a more than fifty-year tradition of carnival festivities, masquerade balls, humorous musical performances, as well as figure roller-skating competitions, in which academic staff and students not only from our university were and are widely involved. Currently, students at all faculties of UCT Prague have been competing for the Šípek Cup every year for more than 10 years.
We congratulate you on your 90th birthday and wish you good health, unwavering optimism, good luck, and well-being.
Milan, thank you so much and enjoy!
Welcome Dr. Pradeep Prajapati, our newest postdoc who joined our group in August 2026 as he was awarded with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions CZ (MSCA-CZ) OP JAK postdoc Fellowship.
Two members of our researcher team participated at ICOM2026, the biggest membrane conference on the worlds, which was hosted this year in the USA, San Antonio – Texas.
Allow us to share that both of them: Jana and Josef (Pepa) returned with 3 prices!
Jana got rewarded by the Elias Klein Travel Supplement Award and the Best Poster Price in the section of Gas Separation, while Pepa also got rewarded with the Best Poster Price in the section of CO2 capture!
After the conference they spent a few extra days travelling, testing new food and enjoying the hospitality of the local people.
Such news are truly outstanding, congratulations to both of you! Proud to have such amazing young talents in our researcher team!
Karel spent one amazing week in July as a Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve at Prof. Patricia Luis Alconero´s group.
In one seminar, he presented the membrane gas separation field, the concept of Mixed matrix membranes, and also his group’s results with the molecular-level engineering approach for the preparation of advanced separation membranes.
With UCL PhD students and postdocs, Prof. Luis also had also a discussions and commented their work topics during their presentations.
He also visited Patricia´s experimental facilities oriented towards laboratory and applied material&membrane research.
Our Jana is on a roll!
She got recently chosen for the prestigious Barrande Fellowship Programme for a short term research stay and will spend her entire autumn doing research in France.
The award ceremony took place at the building of the French Embassy in Prague and was presented by the French Ambassador to Czech Republic himself.
The fellowship is provided jointly by the Embassy of France to the Czech Republic and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MYES) and aims to provide oustanding Ph.D. students in the Czech Republic with opportunities to study in France and Ph.D. students in France with opportunities to study in the Czech Republic.
Congratulations Jana on such a huge success!
