Jana Roithová - Biography#

In 1998 Jana Roithová graduated in organic chemistry from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague, she then continued with her PhD studies at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague. During this time, she was working in the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals and J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, both part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Her PhD thesis was devoted to reaction dynamics and was completed under the supervision of Prof. Zdenek Herman. After obtaining the PhD title in 2003, she undertook a postdoctoral stay at the Technical University in Berlin in the group of Prof. Helmut Schwarz. From 2006 she was working with Dr. Detlef Schröder in the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague. Her independent career started in 2007 at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University in Prague, where she presently holds a position of full professor. She was serving as a head of the department of organic chemistry in 2011 - 2017. She has obtained several prizes, e.g. Prize of the Czech Learned Society, Ignaz L Lieben Award from Austrian Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky-Ilkovic-Nernst Lecture from German Chemical Society, or Rudolf Lukeš prize of the Czech Chemical Society. Jana Roithová is author of more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 2010 has received a Starting Grant and in 2015 a Consolidator Grant from European Research Council.

The major research interests of J. R. involve development of new approaches for studying of reaction mechanisms and reactive intermediates by mass spectrometry. Typically several experimental approaches are combined with computational chemistry for obtaining of a detailed picture of chemical reactivity. She uses photodissociation spectroscopy for investigation of reactive ions/ionic intermediates in a cryogenic ion trap and various dedicated mass spectrometry experiments for uncovering of details of elementary reaction steps.