Biography

Martin Pumera is Head of Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC, Brno, CZ and Head of Advanced Nanorobots & Multiscale Robotics Lab at Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. at Charles University, Czech Republic, in 2001. After two postdoctoral stays (in the United States and Spain), he became a tenured group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, in 2006. In 2010 Martin joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he worked as a tenured associate professor for almost a decade. Prof. Pumera has broad interests in nanomaterials and microsystems, in the specific areas of electrochemistry and synthetic chemistry of 2D nanomaterials, nanotoxicity, micro and nanomachines, and 3D printing. Martin is “2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics (as the only chemist in the Czech Republic). He published over 900 papers which received more than 60 000 citations. Martin's h-index is 121. Martin has supervised over 60 postdoctoral associates, 30 PhD students, 8 Master students and over 50 BSc students. Martin takes pride that 17 group members became faculty members at the Universities around the World, from Spain to Singapore. Total funding Martin received as PI is over 18 M EURO (current active funding 14.8 M EURO). Prof. Pumera is Editor-in-Chief of Appl. Mater. Today (IF 8.3) and member of Editorial Boards of ACS Nano, Small, Chem Eur J, Electrochem Commun, ChemElectroChem, Electroanalysis and other journals.

Martin is the most cited scientist of the Czech Republic and #203 most cited scientist in the World for year 2019.