prof. Zdeněk Wimmer, DSc.

Education

1970-1975

University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, field of organic chemistry, supervisor prof. Dr. Ing. Miloslav Ferles, DrSc.

1975-1978

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, internal postgraduate studies in the Department of Natural Substances, supervisor Ing. Miroslav Romaňuk, DrSc., major in organic chemistry

2001

Defense for the title of doctor of sciences (drsc.) at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, on the recommendation of the then director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, prof. RNDr. Antonín Holý, DrSc., Dr.h.c. mult. Doctoral Dissertation: Substances for the Ecological Control of Populations of Harmful Insect Species.

2005

at Masaryk University in Brno, guarantor prof. RNDr. Milan Potáček, CSc. Habilitation thesis: Development of modern pesticides: Selected series of bioanalogues of insect juvenile hormones.

2009

appointment as professor at the suggestion of Masaryk University in Brno. Professor's lectures: Use of selected biotechnological procedures in the synthesis of biologically active substances (lecture I) and Research and teaching: Application of enzyme systems in the transformation of organic molecules (lecture II).

Positions

1978-1987

Department of Natural Substances, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, researcher

1987-2006

Department of Natural Substances of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, senior researcher

2007-until now

Isotope laboratory of the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, senior researcher

2011-until now

Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances UCT Prague, researcher and professor

Teaching

Natural substances as raw materials (VŠCHT Prague, 2000-2007)

Renewable resources in chemical synthesis (MU Brno, 2004)

Raw materials from renewable sources (VŠCHT Prague, 2006-present)

Renewable resources in chemical synthesis (MU Brno, 2009-present)

Professional interests

Synthesis of biologically and pharmacologically active compounds

Supramolecular chemistry with a focus on the use of renewable sources of raw materials

Synthesis of chiral compounds using biotechnological methods

Extraction of plant raw materials with supercritical fluids, especially supercritical carbon dioxide

Professional activities

Member of the Steering Committees successively in several COST events in Brussels (1995-present)

Member of the Technical and Domain Committee of COST in Brussels (1996-2014)

Member of the COST Council, the advisory scientific body of the Ministry of Education and Culture (1996-present)

Internships

1982/1983

CNR Scholarship at the University of Milan, Italy (12 months)

1992

DAAD scholarship at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1 month)

1994-1996

CIES Scholarship at the University of La Rochelle, France (1-2 months each)

1996

Scholarship of the French Academy of Sciences at the University of Châtenay-Malabry (Paris-Sud), France (1 month)