Michl Josef (Foreign Fellow)

Prof., Ph.D.
Born: March 12, 1939, Prague, Czechoslovakia, † May 13, 2024

• Highly reactive molecules, silicon chemistry
• Honorary member of Learned Society since 1995

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• M.S., Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1961, with Prof. Václav Horák and Dr. Petr Zuman
• Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1965, with Dr. Rudolf Zahradník

POSITIONS

• 1965-66 Post-doctoral with Professor Ralph S. Becker, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
• 1966-67 Post-doctoral with Professor Michael J. S. Dewar, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
• 1967-8/68 Research Scientist, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 9/68-7/69 Amanuensis (assistant professor) with Professor Jan Linderberg, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 9/69-6/70 Post-doctoral with Professor Frank E. Harris, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 7/70-7/71 Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 7/71-6/75 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 7/75-8/86 Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 10/79-6/84 Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 8/86-present Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 9/86-5/91 M. K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
• 6/91-present Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
• 1/06 - present Group leader, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry,  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Photochemistry, photophysics, and solar energy
Surface-mounted molecular rotors and molecular electronics
Reactive intermediates
Boron, fluorine, and silicon chemistry
Molecular electronic structure 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SINCE 2000

Invited Lectures at Conferences:

2000
Tunable Polymers, Asilomar, California
Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure, Austin, Texas
American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota
219^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California
IPS-2000, Snowmass, Colorado
DARPA Moletronics Meeting, S. Lake Tahoe, California
Photophysics and Photochemistry 2000, Oeiras, Portugal
PACIFICHEM 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii (two lectures)

2001
221^st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California
(award lecture)
37^th National Organic Symposium, Bozeman, Montana
Gordon Research Conference on Phys. Org. Chemistry, Holderness School, New Hampshire
Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Seattle, Washington
222^nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (two lectures)
ESOR 8, Cavtat, Croatia
1^st European Silicon Days, Munich, Germany
ISRIUM, Nara, Japan
COE International Symposium, Kyoto, Japan

2002
LabAutomation 2002, Palm Springs, California
Int. Conf. Reactive Intermediates and Reaction Mech., Ascona, Switzerland (lecture and poster)
19^th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Budapest, Hungary (award lecture)
13^th Int. Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Guanajuato, Mexico
Nanotechnology Conference, Natick, MA
10^th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Bethesda, MD

2003
Ratner Symposium, Evanston, Illinois
PalmPower Program Meeting, San Diego, California
American Physical Society Meeting, Austin, Texas
Young Chemists EU Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden
Quilmes Workshop, Quilmes, Tucuman, Argentina
Polysilane Conference, Madison, Wisconsin
36^th Organosilicon Symposium, Akron, Ohio
Jortner Symposium, Tel Aviv, Israel
ISPO ‘03, Troy, New York
Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado
ISRIUM, Reykjavik, Iceland
226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY
Polish Photoscience Seminar, Warsaw, Poland
Workshop on Molecular Electronics, Paris, France

2004
227^th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California (6 presentations)
Foundations of Nanoscience: Self Assembled Architectures and Devices, Snowbird, Utah
Conference of Organic Chemists, Pardubice, Czech Republic
EPIC 04, Obergurgl, Austria
3^rd Heron Island Conf. on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules, Heron Island,
Australia
228^th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2 presentations)
MichlFest, Salt Lake City, Utah
DOE Solar Program Review Meeting, Denver, CO

2005
16^th IAPS Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida
229^th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California
Nobel Symposium on Controlled Nanoscale Motion, Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden
Gordon Research Conference on Photochemistry, Smithfield, Rhode Island
ICCOSS XVII, Los Angeles, California
14^th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry, Würzburg, Germany
ISRIUM 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
230^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC
NSF Workshop on Emerging Opportunities of Nanoscience to Energy Conversion and Storage, Arlington, Virginia
Pacifichem 2005, 2 lectures and a poster, Honolulu, Hawaii

2006
Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry, Buellton, California
NanoBio Symposium, APS National Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
Kipping Award Symposium, 231^st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
IUPAC Conference on Photochemistry, Kyoto, Japan
Hammond Symposium, Bowling Green, Ohio
Zuman Symposium, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado
12^th International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan
Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado
1^st European Chemistry Congress, Budapest, Hungary
PICORIUM, Porquerolles, France
Int. Bunsen Discussion Meeting, Modern Electrochemistry of New Materials, Rathen, Germany

2007
DOE Annual Solar Program Review, Denver, Colorado
Trommsdorffest, Grenoble, France
Wirz Symposium, Basel, Switzerland
ECHEMS, Třešť, Czech Republic
ISNA, Awaji Island near Kobe, Japan
Molecular Theory for Real Systems, Kyoto, Japan
234^th ACS National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (2 talks)
SPIE 2007 Conference on Organic Photovoltaics, San Diego, CA
Wiberg Symposium, Yale Univ., New Haven, Connecticut
Electrochemistry Seminar, Leibnitz Inst., Dresden, Germany
2^nd Japan-Czech-Slovak Joint Symposium for Theoretical Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan

2008
Bartlett Symposium, 235^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA
15^th International Conference on Organosilicon Chemistry, Jeju Island, Korea
Silicon Science - Beyond Silicon Chemistry, Takasaki, Japan
International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Florence, Italy
International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
6^th International Symposium on Theoretical Chemical Physics, Vancouver, BC, Canada
22^nd IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Göteborg, Sweden
Conference on Correspondence between Concepts in Chemistry and Quantum Chemistry, Vålådalen, Sweden
8^th WATOC Congress, Sydney, Australia
13^th IMEBORON Conference, Platja d’Aro, Spain
Central European Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Hejnice, Czech Republic
Photochemistry & Photophysics Symposium, 43^rd Midwest Mtg ACS, Kearney, NE
Borden Symposium, Denton, TX
Trends in Quantum Chemistry Conference, Aarhus, Denmark
Gas Phase Ion Chemistry: State of the Art and Perspectives, Eberbach, Germany

2009
19^th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL
International Symposiium on Modern Organic Chemistry, Monastir, Tunisia
237^th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (2 invited lectures)
Research Connections, Prague, Czech Republic
Dahl Symposium, Madison, WI
CSC Annual Meeting, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (2 invited lectures)
ICCOSS 19, Sestri Levante, Italy
ISRIUM 2009, Liblice, Czech Republic
Diradicals and Multiradicals: Theory and Experiment, Namur, Belgium
Faraday Discussions 145, Frontiers of Physical Organic Chemistry, Cardiff, Wales, UK
ESOR 12, Haifa, Israel
24^th Annual W. S. Johnson Symposium, Stanford, California

2010
239^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California
43^rd Silicon Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri
Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Berkeley, California
Meeting of the Czech Chemical Society, Pardubice, Czech Republic (2 lectures)
Interplay of Electronic Structure Theory and Experiment, Sandbjerg, Denmark
Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado
240^th ACS National Meeting, Boston, Massachussets
3^rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress, Nürnberg, Germany
Central European Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Nový Smokovec, Slovakia
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii (3 invited lectures)

2011
Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. meeting, Washington, DC
241^st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California (2 lectures)
21^st I-APS Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina
Heyrovský Discussions, Třešť, Czech Republic
Gordon Conference on Photochemistry, Easton, Massachussets
WATOC Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“Strongly Correlated Systems, Cooperativity, and VB Theory”, La Coruna, Spain
242^nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, Colorado
ISTCP-VII, Tokyo, Japan
Synthetic and Natural Molecular Machines, Mexico City, Mexico
ISCAN, Richmond, Virginia
Functional Supramolecular Systems, Leuven, Belgium

2012
BES Separations, Annapolis, Maryland
Gordon Conference on Renewable Energy and Solar Fuels, Il Ciocco, Italy
IOCB Retreat, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic
AFOSR Contractors’ Meeting, Arlington, Virginia
Prague Nobel Get-Together, Prague, Czech Republic
BES Solar Photochemistry, Annapolis, Maryland (invited poster)
Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado
244^nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2^nd International Symposium on Large-Scale Computational Science, Tokyo, Japan
Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Uppsala, Sweden
AFOSR contractors’ Meeting, Pasadena, California
6^th International Meeting on Halogen Chemistry, Bangalore, India

2013
I-APS Winter Conference, Sarasota, Florida
Foresight Conference, Palo Alto, California
BES Solar Photochemistry, Annapolis, Maryland (invited poster)
Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado
Single Molecular Machines and Motors Symposium, Toulouse, France
Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado
8^th Symposium of the International Society of Theoretical Chemical Physics, Budapest, Hungary
Theoretical Chemistry Day, Georgia Tech. Univ., Atlanta, Georgia
Advances in Organic, Bioorganic, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Rep.
5^th JCS International Meeting, Nara, Japan

2014
247^th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, Texas
Japanese Chemical Society Meeting, Nagoya, Japan
ISRIUM, Hiroshima, Japan
Gordon Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Il Ciocco, Italy
Symposium of Two-Dimensional Polymers, Zurich, Switzerland
BORAM14, Newark, New Jersey
Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado
Workshop on Molecular Rotors, Motors, and Switches, Telluride, Colorado
Bally Fest, Fribourg, Switzerland
ISOS 17, Berlin, Germany
248^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California
IMEBORON XV, Prague, Czech Republic
WATOC 14, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Concepts of Mathematical Physics in Chemistry, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico

2015
I-APS Photochemistry Meeting, Sarasota, Florida
55^th Sanibel Symposium, St. Simon's Island, Georgia
249^th ACS National Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Nobel Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden
Singlet Fission Workshop, Erlangen, Germany
BES Solar Photochemistry, Annapolis, Maryland
International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Beijing, China
Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado
Zero-Field Spin Effects in Molecular Systems, Telluride, Colorado
Solar Workshop, Telluride, Colorado
European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Kiel, Germany
Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Varna, Bulgaria

Contributed Presentations at Conferences:

2000
11^th IAPS Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida
219^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California (3 presentations, one of these by B. King and one by E. Pinkhassik)
33^rd Organosilicon Symposium, Saginaw, Michigan (3 presentations, by R. West, H. Fogarty and H. Ottosson)
Boron USA VII, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (presented by Z. Janoušek)
220^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC (2 presentations, by H. Fogarty and A. Reisinger)
International Conference on Electronic Structure, San Sebastian, Spain (presented by R. Crespo)
PACIFICHEM 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii (three presentations, by H. Tsuji, C.-H. Ottosson, and J. Smith)

2001
12^th I-ASP, Ascochinga, Argentina (two contributions, one of them by H. Fogarty)
222^nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

2002
13^th I-ASP, Tempe, Arizona (two contributions)
8^th Boron Americas Meeting, Death Valley, California (two contributions, by M. Fete and S. Körbe)
223^nd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, Florida (presented by D. Horinek)
1^st International Conference on Nanoscale/Molecular Mechanics, Maui, Hawaii (three presentations, by G. Kottas, X. Zheng, and J. Vacek)
5^th Int. Symposium on Functional ð-Electron Systems, Neu-Ulm, Germany
6^th WATOC Congress, Lugano, Switzerland (presented by J. Vacek, and four posters)
13^th Int. Symp. on Organosilicon Chemistry, Guanajuato, Mexico (presented by R. Crespo)
ESPA 2002, Seville, Spain (presented by R. Crespo)

2003
Gordon Res. Conf. on Phys. Org. Chem., Plymouth, NH (presented by G. Kottas)
11^th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Bonn, Germany (four posters, plus two presented by R. Crespo, one by P. Čársky, and one by J. Fleischhauer)
2^nd European Organosilicon Days, Munich, Germany

2004
15^th I-ASP, Tempe, Arizona
9^th Boron in the Americas Workshop (5 presentations by M. Fete, K. Vyakaranam, L. Eriksson, P. Schreiber, and M. Kvíèalová)
37^th Silicon Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
228^th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Euroboron 3, Prùhonice near Prague, Czech Republic

2005
7^th WATOC Congress, Cape Town, South Africa
38^th Organosilicon Symposium, Boulder, Colorado (2 posters, presented by McLeod and Casher)
230^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC (3 oral, presented by J. Vacek, T. Magnera, and C. Rogers, and 4 posters, presented by D. Casher, L. Kobr, D. Caskey, and M. Mulcahy)
DOE Solar Program Review, Denver, Colorado
CU-NIST Workshop, Boulder, Colorado (presented by M. Mulcahy)

2006
231^st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (2 talks)
17^th I-APS Winter Conference, Salvador, Brazil

2007
DOE Solar Program Review, Denver, Colorado
Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Margaret Island, Budapest, Hungary
15^th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
234^th ACS National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (2 talks)
Army High Performance Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (presented by J. Vacek)

2008
236^th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (presented by V. Volkis)

2009
65^th Southwest Regional Meeting, El Paso, Texas (presented by C. Krempner)
237^th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (11 contributions presented by Akdag, Braunecker, Chocholoušová, Douvris, Kobr, MacLeod, Roy, Smith, Vacek, Valášek, Volkis)
13^th ICQC, Helsinki, Finland (2 posters, presented by Kývala and Chalupský)
5^th European Silicon Days, Vienna, Austria

2010
I-APS Winter Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL
Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons Island, FL
239^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California (3 presentations)
23^rd IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Ferrara, Italy

2011
242^nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, Colorado (6 presentations)

2012
14^th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado (3 posters)
ISRIUM, Ascona, Switzerland
4^th EUCHEMS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (4 presentations by collaborators)
Rocky Mountains Regional ACS Mtg, Westminster, Colorado (3 presentations by collaborators)

2013
European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Marseille, France (presented by Hajduch)
Gordon Conference Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Nanostructures, Mount Holyoke, Massachussets (presented by Čížková)
ESOR 14, Prague, Czech Republic (7 presentations by collaborators)
Euroboron 6, Radzejowice, Poland (2 posters, presented by Kaleta and Šembera)
Frontiers in Chemistry, Yerevan, Armenia (presented by Hajduch)

2014
I-APS Photochemistry Meeting, Sarasota, Florida
Photoiupac2014, Bordeaux, France

Named Lectureships and Lecture Series (up to 1 month):

2000
Kosolapoff Lecturer, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

2001
Marcus Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Distinguished Lecturer in Computational Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

2002
Visiting Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

2003
Barré Lecturer, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lise Meitner Lecturer: Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Technion, Haifa, Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel
Visiting Lecturer, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

2004
FECS Keynote Lecture, Int. Conf. on Supramol. Sci. & Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

2005
John Stauffer Lecturer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

2007
Friedman lecture, Rutgers Univ., Newark, New Jersey
Török lecture, Eötvös Univ., Budapest, Hungary

2008
J. T. McDonald Lecture, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada

2009
Clark Lectures, Univ. of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV (2 lectures)
Allinger Lecture, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
Hassel Lecture, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Convention Internationale Romande d'Enseignement du 3e Cycle en Chimie, Basel, Berne, Fribourg (2 lectures), Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010
Juniata College Lecturer, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (4 lectures)
Frontiers of Chemical Research Lecturer, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas (3 lectures)

2012
Sigma-Aldrich Lecturer, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
Greater Boston Area Theoretical Chemistry Lecturer, Boston, Massachussets (3 lectures)

2013
Cristol Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Edgar Fahs Smith Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2014
Boulder Scientific Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado Vilsmeier Lecturer, University of Regensburg, Germany

2015
Discovery Chemistry Lecturer, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware

Visiting Positions (1 month and longer):

2001 University of Florida, Gainesville, one month (Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professor); University of Seville, Spain, two months (visiting professor)
2002 University of Valencia, Spain, one month (visiting professor)
2003 Heyrovský Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, one month (visiting scientist)
2005 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (visiting professor)
2010 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (visiting professor)

Colloquia, Lectures and Seminars:

2000
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2 lectures)
Columbia University, New York
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Union Carbide, Charleston, West Virginia

2001
College of Engineering, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
San Diego State University, San Diego, California (Physics)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
University of California, Berkeley, California
Max-Planck Institute für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
University of Florida, Gainesville (10 lectures)
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
University of Seville, Spain (3 lectures)
Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

2002
University of California, Riverside, California
University of California, Los Angeles, California
University of Denver, Colorado
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Free University, Berlin, Germany
Univ. Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Univ. Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Univ. Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Univ. of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Chem. Res. Inst., Univ. of Kyoto, Uji, Japan
Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain (2 lectures)
Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

2003
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (Undergraduate Researcher Society)
Institute of Nanoscale Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Sony Research Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
Learned Society of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Heyrovský Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (2 seminars)
University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

2004
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets
Boston College, Boston, Massachussets
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
Univ. Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Univ. Angers, Angers, France
Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Univ. of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Univ. of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

2005
Univ. of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Free University, Berlin, Germany
GDCh Colloquium, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Dow Corning, Midland, Michigan

2006
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (theor. chem. and org. chem. seminars)
Infineum, Inc., Newark, New Jersey
Univ. of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Univ. of Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan
Tsukuba Univ., Tsukuba, Japan
Sendai Univ., Sendai, Japan
Gunma Univ., Kiryu, Japan
École Normale Supériure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Palacký Univ., Olomouc, Czech Republic
Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic
LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2007
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Denver Univ., Denver, Colorado
Univ. of Munich, Dep. of Physics, Munich, Germany
Univ. of Munich, Dep. of Physical Chemistry, Munich, Germany
Lyondell/Equistar, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Univ. Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Eötvös Univ., Budapest, Hungary
Riken Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Sumitomo Research Laboratory, Chiba, Japan
Univ. of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2008
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Illinois
Czech Learned Society, Prague, Czech Republic
IMW Dresden, Dresden,Germany
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

2009
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, California
University of Oslo, Norway
University of Tromsø, Norway
University of Trondheim, Norway
University of Bergen, Norway
University of Zlín, Czech Republic
Rudjer Boskoviæ Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

2010
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, Dept. of Physics
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Free University, Berlin, Germany
Humbodt University, Berlin, Germany
Lycée Marie et Pierre Curie, Menton, France
Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, New Jersey

2011
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Free University, Berlin, Germany
Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Saitama University, Tokyo, Japan
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

2012
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Angers, France
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets
Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
New York University at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Fukui Institute, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.
University of Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Rep. (2 lectures)

2013
Columbia University, NYC, New York (2 lectures)
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Northwestern University, Xi’an, China
Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Beijing University, Beijing, China
Mid-Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
University of Ulm, Germany
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany

2014
University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
University of Kyoto, Japan
University of Uppsala, Sweden
University of Chiba, Japan
University of Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
University of Osaka, Japan
University of Kyoto, Japan
Cambridge University, Great Britain
University of Lodz, Poland

SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP

American Chemical Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
Inter-American Photochemical Society (Executive Committee Member, July 1977-80)
European Photochemical Association

Editor, Chemical Reviews, 1984-2014
Associate Editor, Theoretica Chimica Acta, 1985-1996
Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research, 1984-2014
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2005-present
Advisory Board, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 1993-2011
Editorial Board, Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan, 1994-present
Editorial Board, Chemistry - A European Journal, 1994-2000
Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1997-2001
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1978-83
Editorial Board, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 1985-87

ACS Editor Search Committee, 2003
ACS Editor Search Committee, 2004
ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Executive Committee Member, 1982-86
ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry Executive Committee Member, 2005-08
ACS Executive Director’s 2010 Committee, 2004-09
ACS Executive Director’s 2020 Committee, 2009 - present
ACS Fellows Selection Committee, 2011-13
ACS National Award Selection committees, 2007-2013
ACS J. F. Norris Canvassing Committee, 2013-present
IUPAC Commission on Photochemistry (Associate Member, 1977-82, Titular Member, 1982-89, Chairman, 1985-89)
US National Committee for IUPAC, 1991- 95

Chairman, 19^th Conference on Reaction Mechanisms, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982
Chairman, 15^th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1994
Director, NATO Advanced Workshop "Modular Chemistry", Estes Park, Colorado, 1995
Co-organizer (with B. Ellison), Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado, 1996
Co-organizer (with J. Simons), Frank Harris Symposium, Park City, Utah, 1998
Chairman, Photophysics and Photochemistry 2000, Oeiras, Portugal, 2000
Co-Organizer (with C. Kubiak and E. Calvo), Quilmes Workshop on Molecular Electronics and Quantum
Dots, Quilmes, Tucuman, Argentina, 2003
Co-Organizer (with E. Calvo), NSF/PASI Workshop on Bioinspired Nanoscience and Molecular Machines, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina, 2005
Co-organizer (with M. Garcia-Garibay and J. Gladysz), Symposium on Molecular Rotors, 230^th ACS Meeting, Washington, DC, 2005
Organizer, 38^th Organosilicon Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, 2005
Co-Organizer, NSF Workshop on Molecular Electronics, Řež near Prague, Czech Republic, 2006
Co-Organizer, Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado, 2006
Organizer, Solar Energy Workshop, Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, 2007
Organizer, Optical Metamaterials Workshop, Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, 2008
Co-Organizer, Zahradník Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008
Organizer, ISRIUM 2009 Conference, Liblice, Czech Republic, 2009
Co-Organizer, Workshop on Conducting Polymers, Louèeò, Czech Republic, 2009
Board Member, Telluride Science Research Center, 2009 - 2013
Co-Organizer, Radicals in the Rockies, Telluride, Colorado, 2010
Co-organizer, Singlet Fission Workshop, Golden, Colorado, 2011
Co-organizer, Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado, 2012
Chairman, 14th International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado, 2012
Chairman, 4th EuCheMS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
Co-organizer, Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado, 2013
Co-chairman, ESOR 14, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
Co-organizer, Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado, 2014
Co-organizer, Workshop on Molecular Rotors, Motors, and Switches, Telluride, Colorado, 2014
Co-organizer, Singlet Fission Workshop, Lyons, Colorado, 2015

Scientific Council of the College of Natural Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1994 - present (honorary member)
Carolinum, honorary member, 1996 - present
Member, Honorary Committee for the Celebrations of the 650th Anniversary of the Founding of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1996 - 1998
Advisory Council, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1986-1994
Advisory Council, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1987-92
Advisory Council, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987-1997
Advisory Board, World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC), 1993-present
International Advisory Board of the Second World Congress of World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC), 1988-1990
International Advisory Board of the Fourth World Congress of World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC), 1994-1996
National Research Center for Computation in Chemistry (Member, Program Committee, 1978-81)
Electronics Research Advisory Panel, DuPont, 1985
Advisory Committee, Center for Fast Kinetics Research, UT Austin, Texas, 1988-1991
Advisory Panel for Central Europe, National Research Council, 1992-1994
COBASE Review Panel, National Research Council, 1992-1994
Natl. Acad. Sci. TNG for Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa, 2001 - 2006
Natl. Acad. Sci. TNG for Class I, chairman, 2007 - present
DOE Program Review Panel, 1993
NSF Workshop on Environmental Chemistry, Matrafüred, Hungary, 1993
Panel Coordinator, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Chemical Synthesis: Gnosis to Prognosis, Ravello, Italy, 1994
Institute Evaluation Commission, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, 1995
Department Evaluation Committee, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002
Theoretical Chemistry Evaluation Team, The Swedish Research Council, 2002
Department Evaluation Committee, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2005
Department Evaluation Committee, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2005
Physical Chemistry Chair Advisory Panel, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2006-7
Discipline Advisory Committee, Fulbright Scholar Awards in Chemistry, 1995-1998
Panelist, DOE Workshop: Research Opportunities in Photochemical Sciences, Estes Park, Colorado, 1996
International Advisory Board, International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry: 11^th in Montpellier, France, 1996, 12^th in Sendai, Japan, 1999, 13th in Guanajuato, Mexico, 2002, 14th in Würzburg, Germany, 2005, 15^th in Jeju Island, Korea
Discussion Leader, Welch Conference "Chemistry on Nanometer Scale", Houston, Texas, 1996
Swedish National Research Council, Natural Sciences Grant Panel, 2006
Uppsala Univ., Phys. Chem. Chair Search Committee, Sweden, 2007
Visiting Advisory Committee, Penn State MRSEC, 2007
Advisory Board Member, Photochemistry Center, Bowling Green Univ., Ohio, 2007 - present
Invited commentator, 21^st Solvay Conference on Chemistry, Brussels, Belgium, 2007
Swedish Res Council, Natural Sciences Linnaeus Grant Panel, 2008
Organizing Committee Member, European Nanotechnology Forum 2009, Prague, Czech Republic
Board on Chemical Science and Technology, NRC, 2009 - 2012
Uppsala Univ., Theor. Chem. Chair Search Committee, Sweden, 2009
Chemistry Research Evaluation in the Netherlands, 2010
Departmental Evaluation Committee, University of Leuven, 2011
Advisory Board member, 8^th Symposium of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 2013

AWARDS AND HONORS

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1971-75
Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1978-79
Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 1980
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (Member)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1984-85
Am. Chem. Soc. Utah Section Award, 1986
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1986
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 1988, vice-president, 2009-2012, president, 2012-present
Honorary Doctorate, Georgetown University, 1990
A. C. Cope Senior Scholar Award (Am. Chem. Soc.), 1993
Schrödinger Medal (World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists), 1993
IAPS Award (Inter-American Photochemical Society), 1994
J. Heyrovsky Gold Medal (Czech Academy of Sciences), 1994
Charles University Gold Medal, Prague, Czech Republic, 1995
Czech Learned Society, Honorary Member, 1995
WATOC Fellow (World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists), 1996
Honorary Doctorate, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1996
Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award, 1998
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
Auburn - G. M. Kosolapoff Award (Am. Chem. Soc. Auburn Section), 2000
James Flack Norris Award (Am. Chem. Soc.), 2001
Otto Wichterle Award (Czech Chemical Society), 2001
ALA Achievement Award (Association for Laboratory Automation), 2002
Best Journal Issue Award for Chemical Reviews (Association of American Publishers), 2002
Porter Medal (I-APS, EPA, JPA), 2002
Marinus Smith Award (Univ. of Colorado), 2003
Honorary Doctorate, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2004
Medal of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic), 2004 and 2012
Patria Award, Government of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2005
Fulbright Fellowship, 2006
University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 2006
American Chemical Society Fellow, 2010
Boron in the Americas Award, 2014
Hammond Award, I-APS, 2015