Group members

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Older Group Photos can be found here.

Jan Čechal [BUT profile][ResearchGate][ORCID]
Research Group Leader
Self-assembly at surfaces, surface processes, surface analysis (LEEM, LEED, STM, XPS), 2D MOFs, graphene.

Pavel Procházka [BUT profile]
Senior Researcher, Deputy RGL
Structural/phase transitions, surface analysis (LEEM, LEED), Graphene (CVD, transport)

Zdeněk Jakub [BUT profile]
Senior Researcher
Surface analysis (STM, XPS, ARPES), 2D metal-organic frameworks.

Jakub Planer [BUT profile]
Postdoctoral Researcher
Theory, ab-initio calculations by VASP.

Azin Shahsavar [BUT profile]
Postdoctoral Researcher
On maternity leave. 

​Veronika Stará [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Thermodynamics of self-assembly, graphene, organic semiconductor mixtures.

Nishant Kumar [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Oxide surfaces, surface phase determination

Zdeněk Endstrasser [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Thermodynamics of self-assembly, analysis of LEEM data.

Anna Kurowská [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Metal-organic networks on topological insulator surfaces.

Ayesha Jabeen [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Metal-organic networks as single-atom catalysts.

Dominik Hrůza [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Metal-organic networks as single-atom catalysts.

Daniela Hrubá [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Chiral segregation at surfaces.

Elena D'Angelo [BUT profile]
Ph.D. Student
Metal-organic networks at graphene surfaces.

Alexandr Cohl
Master's  Student
Molecular phases on surfaces.

Zuzana Šebestová
Master's Student
Molecular phases on surfaces.

Hugo Weisz
Master's Student
Molecular phases on surfaces.

Tadeáš Lesovský
Bachelor's Student
2D MOFs.

Gabriel Toman
Bachelor's Student
2D MOFs.

Daniel Pravec
Bachelor's Student
DFT.

Marek Soldán
Bachelor's Student
2D MOFs.

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Matthias Blatnik 
Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-2024)
→  Senior Lecturer/Researcher at University of Applied Science Technikum Wien

Margareta Wagner 
Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2020)
Researcher at Vienna University of Technology

Ph.D. Students

Tomáš Krajňák 
Ph.D. Student (finished 2025) [Thesis]

Satellite data analysis (World from Space)

Anton Olegovich Makoveev 
Ph.D. Student (finished 2023) [Thesis]
→ IT: software development

Lukáš Kormoš
Ph.D. Student (finished 2021) [Thesis]
R&D at AAC, R&D at Thermo-Fisher


Undergraduate  Students

Petra Mrhačová
Bachelor's and Master's Student (finished 2024) [Thesis]

Lenka Černá
Bachelor's and Master's Student (finished 2023) [Thesis]
→ Ph.D. student at IMDEA (the group of D. Écija).

David Kugler
Bachelor's and Master's Student (finished 2023) [Thesis]
→ Ph.D. student at TU Wien (the group of U. Diebold).

Jan Tesař
Master's Student (finished 2020) [Thesis]
→ Ph.D. student at CEITEC (the group of M. Pumera). 

Filip Vysocký
Master's Student (finished 2019) [Thesis]
→ R&D at Tescan-Orsay Holding, Brno.

Mojmír Komora
Master's Student (finished 2018) [Thesis]
→ R&D at ON Semiconductor, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.

Štěpán Kovařík
Master's Student (finished 2018) [Thesis]
→ Ph.D. student at ETH Zürich (Group of P. Gambardella).

David Vavroušek
Bachelor's Student (finished 2025) [Thesis]

Ondrej Herich
Bachelor's Student (unfinished, 2022)

Václav Ondračka
Bachelor's Student (finished 2018) [Thesis]