Zdenek Slanina
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Academic Profile：
He comes from the former Czechoslovakia - now the Czech Republic - where he got his MA degree (1971) from Charles University in Prague and PhD (1975) from the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, both degrees in physical chemistry. At the Academy, he had worked (1971-1991) in various research positions up to the senior-principal-research-scientist level at its Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry.
The 1985-1986 period he spent at Hokkaido University as a JSPS fellow with Prof. Eiji Osawa and fullerenes-a topic he has been then involved with till now. As the Academy resources were not adequate to the field needs, he has been pursuing fullerenes and teaching various physical-chemistry subjects abroad - in addition to Japan also in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan island, or USA.
In Germany, he was affiliated as an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow with the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto-Hahn Institute). Particularly intense has been his research co-operation with fullerenists at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, TARA Center of the University of Tsukuba, and DCB of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
