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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.
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