Biography

Mirek completed his RNDr. at the Masaryk University in Brno in 1981. He worked as research scientist in pharma industry in the Czech Republic (Lachema a.s.) and later in Switzerland (Lonza AG). After 1990 he decided for a career change to academia, and after a short stint at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in Brno in 1992, he headed for Australia in 1994, where he completed his PhD in chemistry at the University of Tasmania in 1997. Professor Macka has held a series of competitive research fellowships, including ARC Research Fellow 2000-2005, EC Marie Curie Excellence Grant and Fellowship 2006-2010 (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland), and his current ARC Future Fellowship. His international standing is reflected in his appointments to advisory editorial boards of one national and four international scientific journals, the board of Associate Directors of the Californian Separation Science Society (CASSS), and he is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

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Research Interest

Analytical Chemistry, Separation and detection sciences, Chromatography, Electrophoresis, Electrochemistry, Flow chemistry, Solid state light sources, light emitting diodes