Stepan Sklenak

Biographical Sketch

Stepan was born in Brno, Czech Republic, in 1967. After completing his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) in 1990, Stepan received his PhD. at Slovak Technical University (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) in 1995 under the direction of Professors Vladimir Kvasnicka and Stanislav Biskupic.

Then Stepan was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) and worked with Professor Yitzhak Apeloig in 1996 - 1997. Following that Stepan went to Yale University to continue his postdoctoral research with Professor Kenneth B. Wiberg (1998 - 2000). Stepan spent 2000 - 2002 at the University of California San Francisco as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Irwin D. Kuntz. In 2002 Stepan moved to the Michigan State University to work as a senior research associate at the Center for Biological Modeling.

In 2004 Stepan was awarded a Purkyne Fellowship (2004 - 2009) by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and became a Senior Scientist and Purkyne Fellow at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. in Prague, Czech Republic.

Click here to see Stepan's research during the course of his scientific life.

Stepan's current research focuses on quantum chemical calculations of zeolites to model the structure, reactivity, catalytic activity and properties of zeolites.

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