Personal:

Institute address: Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
Phone: 00420-2-2191-1246
E-mail: burda{at}karlov.mff.cuni.cz
Skype: jvburda

Education:

1983 M.Sc.(Eng.) in Chemistry, the Institute of Chemical Technology,
Dep. Physical Chemistry, thesis:
"Quantum chemical calculations of the H-bonded cyclic dimers of small
organic acids. "

1989 M.Sc. in Physics, Charles University, Dep. Chemical Phycics, thesis:
"Differences between the decription of restricted and unrestricted
wave functions for dissociation HF and CH4 molecules."

1989 PhD. (CSc.) graduated at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Dep.
Physical Chemistry, thesis:
"Quantum chemical modeling of the growth of silica single-crystal. "

1999 espoused Habilitation at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, thesis:
"Using of pseudopotentials in quantum-chemical calculations".

2008 defended DrSc thesis at the Comenius University in Bratislava:
" Quantum-Chemical Description of the Interactions of Metal Complexes in Biological Environment."

2011 defended professorship at the Charles University in Prague

Positions:

1987-1994 research scientist, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Dep. of Heterogenous Polymerization.
Dealing with simulation of thermal degradation and stability of PVC chains
and oxidizability of small lactam rings.

1995-1997 research scientist, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences;
Dep. Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Clusters.
Dealing with interaction of metal cations with models of biomolecules
and Van der Waals interaction in rare gas and halogene groups.

1998-1999 Research scientist, Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Charles University.
Dealing with interaction of metal cations with biomolecules and their models.

2000-2012 Associated Professor (docent) at the Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Charles University.

2012- Professor at the Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.

Stays:

1991: in Prof. Schleyer's group in Erlangen (2 weeks);
studied Sn interactions with PVC oligomers.

1993: in Prof. Wegner's group in Mainz (1 year);
studied Sheraga's DEM method for searching global minimum on
empirical potential surface; computing parameters for Mo and Se utilized in MD modeling.

1996: in Prof. Leszczynski's group in Jackson, MS (3 months)
studied interactions of hydrated metal cations with DNA base pairs.

1997: in Prof. Pyykko group in Helsinki, (2 months)
study on "Chemical bonds between noble metals and noble gases.
Ab initio study of the neutral diatomics NiXe, PdXe and PtXe."

1999/2000: in Bonacic-Koutecký group at Humboldt university in Berlin (one year)
studied gold-silver small cluster behaviour using both static and dynamic approaches of quantum chemistry

2004: with Prof. M. Orozco and J.F. Lugue / University of Barcelona, Spain (one month)
investigating interaction of cisplatin complexes with glycine in polarizable continuum models.

Pedagogical activities:

Within PhD studies (1984 – 1987) :
Practical trainings from physical chemistry

Lectuers:

NBCM035 General chemistry (since 1995)
NBCM121/122 Ab initio methods and Density Functional Theory (since 1996)
NBCM039 Quantum theory of molecules(since 2016)

Seminars for lectures:
NBCM110 Quantum Mechanics I (since 2004)
NOFY027 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2009)
NBCM039 Quantum theory of molecules(since 1998 - 2016)

Computational Laboratory:
NBCM100/125 Computational methods in Chemical Physics (since 2000)
NBCM099/116 Practical trainings on Experiments in computational chemistry (since 2002)

Diploma students:
2000/01 Michal Zeizinger, Milan Šimánek,
2002/03 Josef Šeda, Matěj Pavelka,
2003/04 Jiří Mrázek, Tomáš Zimmermann,
2004/05 Zuzana Vokáčová,
2005/06 Luděk Michera, Ondřej Bradáč,
2006/07 Zdeněk Futera, Tomáš Kovaľ.
2012/13 Filip Šebesta.
2014/15 Petra Matunová ,
2014/15 Arnošt Mládek,
2016/17 Radim Cajzl.

Doctorand students:
Michal Zeizinger (2001) defended 2009,
Matěj Pavelka, (2003) defended in 2007,
Tomáš Zimmermann, (2004) defended in 2008,
Zdeněk Futera (2007), defended in 2012,
Filip Šebesta (2013), defended in 2017.