Eight foreign doctoral students presented their projects focused e.g. on the study of the metabolism of ethylene and related compounds in plants, measuring sustainable development, and the impact of paleoclimatic conditions and diagenetic processes on the genesis of Permian continental red beds at this year’s Fischer Scholarship seminar. The scholarship is awarded annually by the UP Faculty of Science, under the auspices of Dean Martin Kubala, to foreign students of doctoral study programmes.
“The Faculty of Science prides itself on quality research and the internationalisation of its workplaces. Foreign PhD students make a significant contribution to both. The Fischer Scholarship is one of the tools to attract skilled doctoral students from all over the world to the faculty. It is evident from this and past seminars that the scholarship holders pursue their projects with enthusiasm and their work brings interesting and non-trivial results,” said Miloslav Dušek, Vice Dean for International Relations.
Young scientists from Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Morocco, and India participated in the seventh year of the seminar. “My educational background was in chemical engineering and separation techniques. Therefore, I chose High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection (HPLC ECD) as the main topic of my doctoral dissertation. My research focuses on the manufacturing of electrodes and electrochemical cells, as well as their implementation into chromatography. HPLC ECD is a selective and sensitive technique for the determination of various substances in liquid mixtures. I thoroughly enjoy being part of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, where I am surrounded by supportive and amiable students and professors,” said Zeynab Belbasi from Iran, who chose to study at the Faculty of Science primarily because she had lived in the Czech Republic for some time. “I experienced a unique cultural environment that I wanted to embrace. Moreover, this faculty has an excellent academic record in the field of chemistry,” she added.
Students also dealt with multifunctional nanocomposites for biomedical applications, analysis and identification of sustainable consumption and production patterns, analysis of pharmaceutically active compounds, capillary electrophoresis, and studying modifications of proteins and lipids mediated by reactive forms of oxygen.
The Fischer Scholarship seminar is held annually at the Faculty of Science. It not only allows the academic community to be continuously introduced to the results of scholarship holders’ work, but also gives the scholarship holders themselves the opportunity to receive feedback and also to become more familiar with the research of their colleagues.
