Three New Professors at the University of Pardubice

The University of Pardubice has three new professors as of today. Scientifically and pedagogically, all three women work at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, each in a different field. Their appointment decree was personally handed over to them today at Prague Castle by the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel. There are more than seventy academic staff members with the highest academic rank of a professor working at the University of Pardubice.  

"I would like to congratulate my colleagues on receiving the highest academic title. Our university can present itself with high-quality international scientific teams. I would also like to wish the newly appointed professors a lot of innovative ideas in scientific research and creative activities and a lot of success in educating students of our university," says the Rector of the University of Pardubice, Prof. Libor Čapek.

The new professors are Vice-Rector Petra Bajerová from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Vice-Dean Liběna Tetřevová from the Department of Economy and Management of Chemical and Food Industry and Virginie Nazabal from the Department of Graphic Arts and Photophysics of the Faculty of Chemical Technology.

Prof. Ing. Petra Bajerová, PhD is a graduate of Technical Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, where she also completed her PhD studies in Analytical Chemistry and her habilitation in the same field, based on which she was appointed Associate Professor in 2015. Her main area of scientific interest is classical and green extraction techniques for isolating analytes from natural matrices and related separation techniques. She completed a long-term study stay at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and several short-term study and teaching stays in Italy, Spain, and Poland, among others. Since 2013, she has been involved in providing the theoretical and practical part of the national competition for talented students Hledáme nejlepšího mladého chemika (Looking for the best young chemist). Currently, she is Vice-Rector for External Relations at the University of Pardubice. Petra Bajerová was appointed professor in Food Technology at the proposal of Tomáš Bat'a University in Zlín.

Prof. Dr Virginie Nazabal is the Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) of the University of Rennes, France, and an Associate Professor at the University of Pardubice. Her research interests are solid-state chemistry and materials science, focusing on the development of glassy and amorphous materials for optical and photonic applications. She is also interested in developing optical sensors for the infrared detection of specific molecules, especially for environmental applications. In recent years, Prof. Nazabal has also focused on Raman spectroscopy and spectroscopy in the infrared region of the spectrum. Since 2016, she has led the Commission for Research and Innovation Platforms at the University of Rennes. She is also involved in the European Partner University Infrastructure Project led by Masaryk University in Brno. Her extensive involvement in several national and international research projects (French National Grant Agency, GACR, H2020, Horizon Europe) has enabled her to collaborate in various consortia composed of academic and corporate partners. She has collaborated with a number of internationally highly renowned researchers and has supervised or co-supervised around twenty PhD students and ten postdocs. She has co-authored about 200 publications and 20 invited lectures. Virginia Nazabal was appointed Professor in Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials at the University of Pardubice.

Prof. Ing. Liběna Tetřevová, PhD is dedicated to socially responsible behaviour and communication of companies. She works at the Department of Economy and Management of Chemical and Food Industry of the Faculty of Chemical Technology. Prof. Tetřevová is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. She defended her dissertation in Management and Economics of Enterprise at the University of Pardubice with the topic of Corporate Bonds – a Perspective Source of Financing in the Czech Industry. She received her associate professor degree at the Technical University of Liberec. She previously worked at the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Pardubice. She lectures on new trends in business economics and management, corporate social responsibility of chemical companies, corporate economics and management, and environmental management. She is the principal investigator of the research project "Towards Regenerative and Sustainable Development and Society," funded by the Fund for Bilateral Relations under the EEA and Norway Grants 2014–2021. She is the author or co-author of nine monographs, more than 75 scientific articles and 60 conference papers. She has worked at universities in Poland, Slovakia and Italy. Prof. Tetřevová is the Vice Dean for Internal Affairs of the Faculty of Chemical Technology of UPCE. She was appointed Professor in Business Economics and Management at the proposal of the Technical University of Liberec.