Short c-vitae: František Švec studied chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, where he received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry in 1969 and served as Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1976. He then became Department Head and Technology Transfer Manager at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, where he remained until 1992. František Švec moved to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, and served as Professor there from 1992 to 1996. He then joined the University of California, Berkeley, USA, as a Faculty Member in 1997.

Starting in 2005, he has served as Director of the Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis Facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA, where he currently is an Affiliate. From 2013 to 2017, he was Professor at the International Research Center for Soft Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China, and Adjunct Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. Since 2017, Švec is Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.

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Important publications:

1. Frantisek Svec and Yongqin Lv, Chapter 5: Porous Monolithic Layers and Mass Spectrometry, Handbook of Advanced Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Techniques, 2017, Pages 141-178

2. Jorge C. Masini and Frantisek Svec, Porous monoliths for on-line sample preparation: A review, Analytica Chimica Acta, 964, 2017, 24-44

3. Martina Háková, Lucie Chocholoušová Havlíková, Petr Solich, František Švec and Dalibor Šatínský, Electrospun nanofiber polymers as extraction phases in analytical chemistry – The advances of the last decade, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 110, 2019, 81-96