Career

from 02/2015 Vice Dean for R&D, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, UCT Prague
2014 Associate Professor, UCT Prague
from 01/2011 a Head of Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes

Education

2002 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, ICT Prague
1997 MSc. in Physical and Analytical Chemistry, ICT Prague

Foreign stays

2007-2008 Post Doctoral Fellow, ITM-CNR, Italy; 12 months
2006 Research stay, Ghent University, Belgium; 2 months
2003-2005 Post Doctoral Fellow, IPF Dresden, Germany; 18 months
1999 Post Graduate Fellow, University of Rostock, Germany; 4 months

Membership

American Chemical Society
European Membrane Society
Czech Chemical Society
Czech Society of Chemical Engineering

Teaching

Physical Chemistry I and II
Physical Chemistry of Phase Boundaries
Physico-chemical principles of membrane processes
Physical Chemistry: Laboratory I and II

Publications

2018

• Číhal, P.; Vopička, O.; Lanč, M.; Kludský, M.; Velas, J.; Hrdlička, Z.; Michalcová, A.; Dendisová, M.; Friess, K. Poly(butylene succinate)-cellulose triacetate blends: Permeation, pervaporation, sorption and physical structure. Polymer Testing. 2018, 65 468-479.
• Kludský, M.; Vopička, O.; Matějka, P.; Hovorka, Š.; Friess, K.Nafion® modified with primary amines: chemical structure, sorption properties and pervaporative separation of methanol-dimethyl carbonate mixtures. European Polymer Journal. 2018, 99 268-276.

2017

• Bouša, D.; Friess, K.; Pilnáček, K.; Vopička, O.; Lanč, M.; Fónod, K.; Pumera, M.; Sedmidubský, D.; Luxa, J.; Sofer, Z. Thin high flux self-standing graphene oxide membranes for efficient hydrogen separation from gas mixtures. Chem. Eur. J.. 2017, 23(47), 11416-11422.
• Friess, K.; Lanč, M.; Pilnáček, K.; Fíla, V.; Vopička, O.; Sedláková, Z.; Cowan, M.G.; McDanel M.W.; Noble, R.D.; Gin, D.L.; Izák, P.CO2/CH4 Separation Performance Of Ionic-Liquid-Based Epoxy-Amine Ion Gel Membranes Under Mixed Feed Conditions Relevant To Biogas Processing. Journal of membrane science. 2017, 528 64-71.
• Vopička, O.; Pilnáček, K.; Friess, K.Separation of methanol-dimethyl carbonate vapour mixtures with PDMS and PTMSP membranes. Separation and Purification Technology. 2017, 174 1-11.
• Sysel. P; Patrová A.; Lanč, M.; Friess, K. Poly(imide-siloxane)s based on hyperbranched polyimides. e-Polymers. 2017 .
• Sysel, P.; Malý, D.; Vyšohlíd, J.; Friess, K.; Pilnáček, K.; Lanč, M.; Vopička, O.Polyimides cross-linked with amino group-containing compounds. Polymer Engineering & Science. 2017, 57(12), 1367-1373.
• Izák, P.; Dobbink, F.D.; Hulla, M.; Klepić, M.; Friess, K.; Hovorka, Š.; Dyson, P.J.Catalytic Ionic-Liquid Membranes: The Convergence of Ionic-Liquid Catalysis and Ionic-Liquid Membrane Separation Technologies. ChemPlusChem. 2017 .
• Bernardo, P.; Bazzarelli, F.; Tasselli, F.; Clarizia, G.; Mason, C.R.; Maynard-Atem, L.; Budd, P.M.; Lanč, M.; Pilnáček, K.; Vopička, O.; Friess, K.; Fritsch, D.; Yampolskii, YuP.; Shantarovich, V.; Jansen, J.C. Effect of physical aging on the gas transport and sorption in PIM-1 membranes. Polymer. 2017, 113 283-294.
• Randová, A.; Bartovská, L.; Pilnáček, K.; Lanč, M.; Vopička, O.; Matějka, P.; Izák, P.; Karaszová, M.; Macedonio, F.; Figoli, A.; Jansen, J.C., Di Nicoló, E.; Friess, K.Sorption of organic liquids in poly(ethylene chlorotrifluoroethylene) Halar®901: Experimental and theoretical analysis. Polymer Testing. 2017, 58 199-207.

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