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soil contamination, soil remediation, metals, adsorption modeling, isotope geochemistry
Czech Republic

Biography

Michael Komárek is currently Full Professor and Dean of Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is leading the Environmental and Isotope Geochemistry Research Group and specializes in the field of environmental, soil and isotope geochemistry, specifically in the behavior of contaminants in the environment, soil remediation, adsorption and geochemical modeling. He obtained his Master’s degree in Environmental Geology at Charles University in Prague in 2003 and his Ph.D. at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in 2007. He acted as a visiting scientist at the University of Limoges (France), where he also obtained his Habilitation (HDR). In 2012, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Western Michigan University (USA) and did several internships at, e.g., Université de Rennes I (France), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He gave several invited/keynote talks at international conferences. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Environmental Pollution, Carbon Research, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, where he obtained the Excellent Editorial Board Member Award in 2022. He also acted as editor of several special issues of Science of the Total Environment, Chemosphere, Plant and Soil, and Nanomaterials. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator of projects funded by EEA Grants (Norway Funds), Horizon 2020 (Marie-Curie Action), the Czech Science Foundation, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, and The Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. In 2011, he was awarded the Honors of the President of the Czech Science Foundation. He is the guarantor of the Master’s study programme Environmental Geosciences and the Ph.D. programme Environmental Earth Sciences.

Activities

Employment (4)

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2023-12-15 to present | Full Professor, Faculty Dean (Faculty of Environmental Sciences)
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Michael Komárek

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2015 to 2023 | Full Professor, Head of Department (Department of Environmental Geosciences)
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Michael Komárek

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2011 to 2015 | Associate Professor, Head of Department (Department of Environmental Geosciences)
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Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2007 to 2011 | Researcher (Department of Agroenvironmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2004 to 2007 | Ph.D. (Department of Agroenvironmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition)
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Charles University in Prague: Prague, CZ

1998 to 2003 | MSc. (Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Natural Resources)
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Professional activities (1)

Université de Limoges: Limoges, FR

2009 to 2014 | Visiting scientist (GRESE)
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Funding (11)

Nanoremediation of contaminated soils: Technology implementation with respect to ecotoxicological aspects

2021-01 to 2024-03 | Grant
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (Prague , CZ)
GRANT_NUMBER:

TO01000170

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Michael Komárek

Complex evaluation of the application of sewage sludge in agriculture with respect to emerging pollutants

2021-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (Prague, CZ)
GRANT_NUMBER:

QK21020022

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Michael Komárek

Performance comparison of innovative metal(loid) nanosorbents in smelter-polluted soils: Geochemical and ecotoxicological benchmarks

2021-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
Czech Science Foundation (Prague, CZ)
GRANT_NUMBER:

21-23794J

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Michael Komárek

Isotope fractionation as a tool for identifying cadmium and zinc sorption mechanisms in soils

2018-01 to 2020-12 | Grant
Czech Science Foundation (Prague, CZ)
GRANT_NUMBER:

18-07585S

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Michael Komárek

Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal marINe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems

Modeling the competitive adsorption of metals and As onto Fe nano-oxides: Implication for soil remediation

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Michael Komárek via DimensionsWizard

A new methodological approach for identification of industrial pollution: Isotope fingerprinting and bacterial community changes

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Michael Komárek via DimensionsWizard

Surface Complexation Modeling of Metal/Metalloid Adsorption Onto Iron and Manganese Nano-Oxides

2012-09-01 to 2012-12-01 | Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington D.C., US)
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Michael Komárek via DimensionsWizard

Chromium isotopes as an indicator of natural attenuation of water pollution: Introducing mass-spectrometry based technology

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Stabilization of metals/metalloids in contaminated soils using a novel synthetic manganese oxide: A comparison with other stabilization amendments

Chemically enhanced phytoextraction of copper from vineyard and hop field soils

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Peer review (207 reviews for 31 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering. (2)
Review activity for Applied geochemistry. (6)
Review activity for Biochar. (2)
Review activity for Carbon research. (1)
Review activity for Chemical engineering journal. (2)
Review activity for Chemical geology. (6)
Review activity for Chemosphere. (1)
Review activity for Chemosphere. (32)
Review activity for Critical reviews in environmental science and technology. (23)
Review activity for Current pollution reports. (1)
Review activity for Earth and planetary science letters. (1)
Review activity for Ecological engineering. (2)
Review activity for Environment international. (2)
Review activity for Environmental chemistry letters. (2)
Review activity for Environmental geochemistry and health. (2)
Review activity for Environmental pollution (4)
Review activity for Environmental pollution. (23)
Review activity for Environmental science & technology. (29)
Review activity for Environmental science and pollution research international (5)
Review activity for Geochemical transactions. (1)
Review activity for Geoderma. (3)
Review activity for International journal of environmental science and technology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. (8)
Review activity for Journal of colloid and interface science (2)
Review activity for Journal of environmental management. (10)
Review activity for Journal of hazardous materials. (1)
Review activity for Journal of hazardous materials. (1)
Review activity for Journal of soils and sediments. (3)
Review activity for Science of the total environment. (29)
Review activity for Talanta. (1)
Review activity for Water research. (1)