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Events and services of the Counselling and Career Centre of the UCT Prague
- Any interested person ( an applicant, student, graduate or employee) can register for a CCC event/service on the selected date and time via the registration system, or by e-mail or other offered method (depending on the selected event/service)
- After registration, the place at the event/service is reserved for the participant and the CCC is counting on their participation.
- The registration fot an event/service can be independently cancelled in the same way as the registration (i.e. in the registration system, by e-mail or otherwise). Especially for events/services bookable via the login system, please use the system again for possible cancellation, e-mail only in extreme cases (e-mail communication gets stuck easily).
- Unless otherwise stated (in the registration system), you must cancel the registration at least 24 hours before the scheduled time.
- For late cancellation, or even absence without canceling, we will issue a "warning".
- After two warnings have been issued, i.e. on the third late or unexcused absence (in all CCC events/services) we issue a "stop notice" on all of the CCC development events/services (lectures, courses and workshops, career counseling, mentoring). For CCC counselling events/services (psychological counselling, services for SSN students) cancellations will be dealt with on an individual basis.
- Warnings and stop notices are valid for one academic year.
Why?
We offer events and services free of charge. They are administratively, financially and staff-intensive to organize. If you sign up for an event/service and end up not using it (with or without a late apology), you are unnecessarily draining our capacity and taking up space for someone who would like to use it to its full potential. Last but not least, proper scheduling and a proper early excuse, if any, is the basic equipment of an educated person and an indispensable skill for life.
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During counselling sessions (psychological, socio-legal, career), you can deal with questions about your studies, your future direction, and difficulties that are preventing you from studying, whether it be psychological problems, legal disputes or your social security. Senior colleagues known as Tutors will also be able to advise you on your studies. Once registered, students with specific needs can benefit from compensation and study support that takes into account their medical condition.
You can also make use of the thematic e-learning course Survival Kit, which covers issues of motivation, planning, effective learning, as well as relationships and time management on social media. If you prefer discussion to self-study, join one of the support groups where, under the guidance of an experienced lecturer, you and your classmates will discuss your difficulties and questions and work together to find the best solution.
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The Chem-iK Job Fair held annually at UCT Prague allows you to meet a wide range of employers from the chemical and technology industry in person. It presents a unique opportunity to meet representatives of companies, ask them about everything that interests you and get an idea of their values or working environment.
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[obsah] => We are committed to being your helping hand
UCT Prague places great demands on its students, which it undertakes to balance with support services through its Counselling and Career Centre (CCC). The school profiles its graduates as versatile problem solvers or innovators who, thanks to their expertise, can become exceptional members of work teams. It also emphasizes holistic development in personal issues including stress management and finding psychological well-being.
The CCC aims to act as a service, support and innovation body offering care, development, and support to students. It creates a liaison between students and school administrators by seeking to understand each other's motivations, needs and barriers. It seeks to develop students' potential while minimizing the negative effects of academic demands.
All projects and the running of the Centre are handled by the CCC team.
We follow ethical principles
All staff of the Counselling and Career Centre are bound by confidentiality and are governed by the Code of Ethics for University Counsellors.
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UCT Prague has long been cooperating with various companies and employers from the chemical and technology industry to provide students with insight into the labour market and offer adequate opportunities for further development.
In cooperation with companies, we organize lectures, workshops and seminars at the school. We advertise full-time and part-time jobs offers and internships. Last but not least, we annually organize the Chem-iK Job Fair where employers have the opportunity to present their company and get in personal contact with students.
Contact us!
Are you interested in this cooperation opportunity? Get back to us:
Other possibilities of cooperation
UCT Prague is one of the leading Czech research institutes and cooperates intensively with industrial practice. It offers companies, for example, qualified services in research, development and innovation work, experimental work for external customers, analysis, testing and interpretation of results, or the services of its accredited laboratories. It is also possible to agree on project cooperation or the licensing of various technologies.
More information and contacts for these forms of cooperation can be found here.
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Write to us!
Not sure which CCC service to choose or hesitant about whether it will be useful for you? Let us know and we'll figure out the best course of action together. We will be happy to discuss your questions and requirements and explain everything to you.
How to contact us?
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The transition to university
Moving from secondary school to university is a big change that brings you a lot of new opportunities, but also a lot of responsibility. You get freedom in how to organise your time and how much to spend on your studies. On the other hand, you have to keep in mind that school is sometimes challenging and can present you with difficult obstacles.
So be responsible in your approach to your studies but remember that school results are not everything. Take an interest in the people and opportunities around you, network and get involved in other activities. Create a balance that will fulfil you, develop you, and most importantly, entertain you.
Survival Kit for freshmen
Attend lectures from the Survival Kit series that we have prepared especially for first year students. You'll learn how to manage university, how to study and work effectively with time, when to relax, and how to get through your first exams. You'll find out everything you need for the transition to university – including the tricks that will save you while studying.
Ask questions and get advice
The first weeks will be challenging, but you will soon get used to everything. You will have your study group tutor or the Tutors Society at your disposition - senior students who will be happy to help you with questions about your studies, tutoring, or other school-related issues. For questions related to the organisation of your studies and the schedule, you can contact your study officer who is available at the study department during office hours.
Help with studying
If you have a problem with a subject, check out the tutor database and get help in time.
UCT Prague also offers opportunities for students who have difficulty studying due to health reasons (dyslexia, etc.). Simply register as a student with special needs and the CCC will help you study in an adapted way.
All the information in one place
Essential information about the beginning of your studies, how the university works etc. can be found on the main UCT Prague webpage.
We've compiled all the tips, hints and tricks for your first steps at UCT Prague in the Freshmen's Guide. Information you need about dormitories can be found in the Housing handbook.
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Studies and life outside school
You are studying and school takes up a significant portion of your time. Spend enough time on it to complete your studies successfully but remember to include other activities as well. Go to lectures and societies, find part-time work or an internship and try anything you might enjoy. Develop yourself, find your direction and meet new people. This will help you broaden your horizons during your Bachelor's studies, and then you can start to focus on specific fields and goals during your Master's studies.
Study guidance and scholarship assistance
If a subject is a problem for you, visit the tutor database at the Tutors page and get help in time. UCT Prague also offers opportunities for students who have difficulty in studying due to health reasons (dyslexia, etc.). All you have to do is register as a student with special needs and the CCC will help tailor your studies to you.
If you are facing a difficult personal situation complicating your studies or you don't know which direction to take at school and in your career, take advantage of counselling services. The CCC can provide you with a psychologist, career counsellor or socio-legal help.
Get involved in extracurricular activities
You can get involved in a number of student societies that focus on everything from sports, culture, gaming, to event organisation. You can also get involved in the Academic Senate and have a say in the school's affairs.
Sign up for the mentoring programme to find out more about working in the field you're interested in. The school will connect you with a mentor who will show you what their job entails and help you decide on your next career path. They will give you experience and contacts that are guaranteed to come in handy.
The CCC regularly organizes courses and workshops to help you improve your practical skills. External experts focus on topics such as critical thinking, effective communication and financial literacy. In addition, a number of workshops offer the possibility of awarding a certificate, which may prove useful when you apply for a job.
Work experience and job opportunities
Development within part-time jobs or internships can also help you with your future direction. In cooperation with chemical technology companies, UCT Prague provides internship programmes or part-time work that allows you to get a glimpse into the industry and try out how a working team operates.
At the latest in Year 3, visit the school Chem-iK Job Fair and find out what opportunities the job market offers. The sooner you start looking at job offers, attending lectures with practitioners, reading interviews and getting to know people in the field, the easier it will be to find the right career path. Observe what's going on around you, evolve and sooner or later you will find whatever fulfils you.
All the information in one place
Essential information concerning your studies, study regulations and administration etc. can be found on the main UCT Prague webpage.
We've compiled everything you might need during your studies in the Bachelor Studies Guide. How to choose a topic for your bachelor's thesis, how to pass the state exams, but also what to do outside of school.
In the Master Studies Guide (only in CZ for now) we look at school commitments, but also what comes afterwards, such as finding your first job.
Information you need about dormitories can be found in the Housing handbook.
In the e-learning course Survival Kit, you will find articles, podcasts, videos and other inspiration on topics such as well-being, lifestyle and relationships.
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A diploma and the decision on what to do next
Graduation is mainly associated with writing a good final thesis and the successful completion of state examinations. But beyond that, you also have to decide where to go next. There are plenty of options, so it's a good idea to explore all of them carefully – do you want to continue your studies or start a job in the industry? Which position is best for you?
How to write a thesis
On the school Intranet, you will find (after logging in) basic information on writing theses - a sample document, tips on writing and citing, how to print and submit the thesis, etc.
The National Library of Technology (NTK) offers you free participation in courses, workshops and personal consultations that can help you a lot with writing your thesis. You will learn how to structure your text, where to find expert sources, and how to cite them. Other useful lectures are also organized by the Tutors Association.
Final graduation
Graduation is the final ceremony that officially concludes your studies. Together with your classmates, after completing state exams and defending your final thesis, you will take the solemn oath and receive your diploma. The ceremony has a specific programme and dress code, which you will learn in due time (see the brochure Graduation and Alumni for basic information).
Find a job you enjoy
If the time has come to find a job after school but you're still not sure which direction to take, take advantage of the free career counselling services. Expert counsellors can help you decide where to develop further and what kind of work would be best for you. They can also advise you on your CV or cover letter. In addition, you can use the tips in the Personal Brand, CV, Cover Letter handbook (in CZ only for now).
On its website, the CCC publishes job offers that are suitable for graduates of UCT Prague.
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The mentoring programme offers you the opportunity to create an informal relationship with a more experienced practitioner and take a step further on your journey. The cooperation is long-term, has no fixed structure and each mentored student, graduate or employee determines the basic objectives according to his/her individual needs. This can be in the areas of studies, career, and personal life.
There are two mentoring programmes at UCT Prague:
Who is a mentor?
A mentor is someone who has experience in the field and passes it on to their mentee. Ideally, they should be based at an institution other than the one at which the mentee is studying or working. It is often advisable to find an expert in a field that the mentee does not understand so well. This will open up a unique opportunity for them to gain a better understanding of a related field or another issue that might be useful to them - for example, the business side of a scientific project.
Spring cycle of the mentoring programme
The spring cycle will run from February to June 2024. You can sign up for the spring cycle of the mentoring programme from 5.2. to 15.2. Start by filling out the Forms under the link below:
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Our mentors
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Jan Sýkora
Role: Researcher at the University of Chemical Technology, founder and managing director of Pharmacan s.r.o.
Field of study: analytical chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, Pharmacan s.r.o., before: Czech Academy of Science
Language: Czech, English
Mentees: Students
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Michal H. Kolář
Role: Research Group Leader
Employer: Max Planck Society; Former: Jülich Research Center, IOCB Prague
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jiří Wald
Area: Molecular and Structural Biology
Employer: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, German Electron Synchrotron DESY
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online
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Veronika Šímová
Role: Sales team manager
Field: Finance
Employer: Self-employed businesswoman; former: Plzeňský Prazdroj
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Martin Schätz
Role: Assistant Professor, EU Open Science Coordinator
Area: Biological and Medical Image Analysis, Informatics, Data Analysis
Employer: UCT Prague, Faculty of Science at Charles University, National Library of Technology
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Adam Zicháček
Role: Service delivery manager fot Sandoz
Field: Synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals
Employer: Sandoz Former: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Novartis
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Pavel Řezanka
Role: Research Fellow, Head of Radioanalytical Methods Group
Employer: UCT Prague
Mentees: employees
Mentoring language: czech
Form: Personal meet up
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Olesja Lancevská
Role: project manager, lecturer of the Entrepreneurship Academy course, facilitator of the My First Million acceleration program,
Field: innovation, start-up, business model, personal development
Employer: Technological Innovation Centre Zlín
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Helena Staňková
Field: IT a data, Finance
Emplozer: Marketing BI former: Direct Fidoo, Saltpay
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Role: Technical sales representative for biomedical applications
Field: Ultrasonic and laser welding of plastic products
Employer: DUKANE IAS s.r.o.; former: National Instruments, Digiteq
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jaroslav Saller
Role: Internal Audit Manager
Field: Finance, Consulting, Audit
Employer: Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte Audit, Deloitte Advisory, Neox
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Lukáš Ferkl
Area: Energetics, environmental management, consulting
Employer: EnviTrail (founder); former: CTU UCEEB, Feramat Energies (founder)
Mentees: students
Form: Personal meet up
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Štěpán Hodač
Role: Managing diretor
Field: Food industry
Employer: Beavia
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Michaela Chrastná
Role: R&D Project Manager, Facility Manager, Construction Manager, External Relations Manager, HR Work Process Leader, Process Engineer
Field: Project Management, HR, Construction
Employer: Lego; former: Procter & Gamble, Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Kristýna Kantnerová
Role: PostDoc
Field: Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Employer: ETH Zürich
Mentoring language: czech, english
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Pavel Kukula
Role: executive director
Field: organic technology, catalyst production
Employer: RANIDO, former: Solvias, Süd-Chemie, Clariant
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Nikola Koretzová
Role: Scrum master, coach, consultant
Field: Project managment, biomedicine
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.; former: Agile Navigators; MEDICEM Institute s.r.o., PERFECT Clean CZ s.r.o.
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Edith Kutorglo
Role: PostDoc
Field: Functional nanomaterials, membrane chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, TU Berlin
Mentoring language: english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentees: students, employees
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Luděk Michal
Role: Sales and Technical Representative
Field: Materials, Chemical Industry
Employer: BASF; formerly: SILON
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Matěj Šimek
Role: Senior researcher
Field: Analytická chemie, biotechnologie
Employer: Contipro a.s.
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentoring language: czech, english
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Martin Skala
Role: Business Development Manager, Project Manager
Area: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry
Employer: NUM Solution; former: Metoil
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Marek Šoltys
Role: project manager; former: project lead scientist - formulation
Field: pharmaceutical industry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: Zentiva
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Aldar Tsybyktarov
Role: Manager
Field: Development, Construction, Data Analytics
Employer: NOVA ET VETERA, Honeywell
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english, russian
Form: Personal meet up
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Martin Strejc
Role: Researcher
Field: Physical Chemistry with a focus on nuclear research
Employer: ÚJV Řež, a. s.
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jan Jelínek
Role: Business-Designer, Project Manager, Consultant
Area: Innovation Design, Marketing, Management & Leadership, Startups, Creative Industry
Employer: Q Designers, freelancer, Nerudný fest (founder)
Mentees: students, employees
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Viktor Janouškovec
Role: Director
Field: Distribution, Chemical Industry
Employer: Brenntag; former: Lach-Ner s.r.o., Tesla Hloubětín, Synthesia, a.s.
Mentees: students
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Michal Chmiel
Role: HR Director
Field: Human resources
Employer: ORLEN Unipetrol; former: Orange Polska, Telekomuniacja Polska
Mentees: students, employees
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Jana Kamanová
Role: Scientist, Head of laboratory of cell biology of infections
Field: microbiology, cell biology, interaction interakce patogen-host
Employer: Microbiological department, Academy of science Czech republic
Mentees: students
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Jan Froněk
Role: Academic coach
Field: Career and Personal Development
Emmployer: www.janfronek.cz, TEREZA Education Center
Mentees: students, employees
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Lubomír Kovařík,MSc.
Role: lecturer of educational activities in non-formal education
Field: education, soft skills development
Employer: Technologické inovační centrum, s.r.o.
Mentees: students, employees
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Role: CEO of the Technological Innovation Centre in Zlín
Field: Ph.D. - Business Process Management
Employer: TIC Zlín Former: Akademie Sting, CzechInvest, MŠMT
Language: czech and english
Mentees: students, employees
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Yannis Vasilopoulos
Role: Digital Workflow Engineer
Field: Data science, Edge Computing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
Employer: Siemens, UCT Prague
Mentees: students
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Thomas de Bruyne
Role: organizational psychologist, co-founder of BeInX
Field: psychology, VR and AR, leadership transformation, digital consulting
Employer: BeInX (co-founder) Former: Deloitte
Language: English, Dutch
Mentees: students
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Jitka Vallová
Role: Procurement Business Partner Confectionary CEE
Area: Purchasing, FMCG
Employer: Nestlé, Brenntag, Zentiva,
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
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David Škvařil
Role: People and Customer Care, Partnerships
Area: Finance
Employer: Fondee; former: Future Port, Air Ventures, BCG, MALL pay, Alza
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Martin Pultar
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical technology
Employer: Draslovka; former: Spolana, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, UCT Prague
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Ondřej Pánek
Role: Production Director; former: project engineer, launch leader, lean manager
Area: chemical engineerin
Employer: Procter&Gamble
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Milan Bittner
Role: Malthouse manager, technologist, brewer
Area: Brewing
Employer: Plzeňský Prazdroj; former: Pivovary Lokbowicz, Pivovar Kácov
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Andrea Marušáková
Role: senior tester
Area: IT
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.
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Ondřej Zbytek
Role: CEO & startup founder, innovator, electrical engineer
Area: Tech Startups, Fundraising, Smart Indoor Gardening, Smart Cities, Particle Physics, Education
Emlpoyer: Plantee, Nuledo
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Katrin Neubauerová
Role: Researcher
Area: Bioengineering
Employer: Bene Meat
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Kateřina Sladká
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: LB Minerals; former: ALS, Klokner Institute of CTU
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Lucie Nuñez
Role: Head of Department for the European Research Area
Area: Research and Development, European grants
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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Denisa Lizoňová
Role: PostDoc
Area: Chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
Employer: UCT Prague
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Marek Lanč
Role: Head of Research and Testing
Area: Physical Chemistry
Employer: CCORE Technology GmbH
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Vojtěch Kučera
Role: Material Specialist
Area: materials chemistry
Employer: ŠKODA AUTO a.s.
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Martin Hruška
Role: HDW Department Manager; former: PSG Line manager, FE Line manager, FE Process Engineer
Area: Chemical Engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
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Ivan Souček
Role: director
Area: chemical industry, economics and management
Employer: Union of Chemical Industry; former: Kaučuk Kralupy a.s., Unipetrol, Paramo Kolín a.s., Česká rafinérská a.s.
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Maja Kądzioła-Avberšek
Role: Regulatory Affairs Manager
Area: Pharmaceutical chemistry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: GSK, Wrigley (Mars)
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Anna Fučíková
Role: Associate Professor
Area: Nanomaterials, Biophysics, Chemical Physics
Employer: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, the Academy of Sciences
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Michaela Gajdošová
Role: Formulation manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Zentiva
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Michal Jeremiáš
Role: Head of Department
Area: Plasma Physics
Employer: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics
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Lenka Kadeřábková
Role: Director
Area: Education, Volunteering
Employer: INEX-SDA; former: Startup Jobs
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Tomáš Petrek
Role: Executive Director
Area: Marketing
Employer: GoBigname; former: Mettler Toledo GmbH
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Zuzana Poláková
Role: Head of the Strategic Department
Area: Education, Public Sector
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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Karel Zheng
Role: Manager, Founder
Area: Technology Startups, Finance
Employer: Accomango, BCG, KAYA (Enern), Twisto
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Why be a mentor?
Through mentoring, you will have the opportunity to realize your expertise and learn to pass it on to less experienced students. By meeting with a mentee, you will have the opportunity to break out of the normal work routine, gain a new perspective on your work and get the chance to broaden your awareness of current trends in the field. Mentoring is an effective method of development not only for the mentee, but also for you.
If you are interested, please contact the coordinator of the program: pickovar@vscht.cz
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Adam Zicháček
Role: Service delivery manager fot Sandoz
Field: Synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals
Employer: Sandoz Former: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Novartis
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students
What can I help my mentee with?
- Overview of the pharmaceutical job market, employment in the educational field (in both academical and commerce area) consultations,
- Fresh experience with doctoral studies and the transition between academic and private sector,
- Passion for coaching, finding your strengths and asking important life questions.
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Adam loved chemistry ever since his studies at the Jan Neruda high school, where he chose enhanced chemistry and physics. From there it was but a little step towards studying pharmaceutics synthesis and production. „I have always loved theoretical chemistry rather than the lab. I was fascinated by pharmaceuticals because they can also be a connection to my passion for biology and medicine.“ He dedicated his international Erasmus at the Braunschweig university to topical pharmaceuticals, which was also the topic of his diploma thesis, that he defended in 2020. After acquiring his Engineer title Adam briefly studied for a doctor, but he could not resist accepting a position in Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he worked as an automation engineer and a project coordinator.
A turning point in Adam’s life was the decision to leave his PhD studies and the job in Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he worked for almost a year and a half. He started considering not only job market opportunities, but also his skill set and his life path. „It was a moment of searching. I began thinking not only about a job but also about myself - what my talents and skills are and what I would like to achieve.“ Thanks to a thorough research and attending coaching he discovered his strength in managing. In 2022 he started working in Novartis as a project consultant, connecting interpersonal communication and talent for structuring. Thanks to the diversity of this job Adam acquired a broad overview of the pharmaceutical market in the Czech Republic. In May of 2023 Adam joined a Novartis’ subsidiary firm Sandos, where he continues as a Service Delivery Manager. His responsibility is the complete supervision over excellent delivery of applications for the finance department from external suppliers including the communication between both these entities.
A big motivation for entering the program as a mentor is his experience as a mentee. In his own words, „I had a mentor in this program, and I am where I am today thanks to him. Now I want to give back to the school and mentoring is my passion.“ In addition he remembers his time at UCT with love and pride and likes to come back there. He follows Jan Mühlfeit’s motto: „the happiest people are those who make others happy by doing what they love.“
Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-zichacek/
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Ján Sýkora
Role: Researcher at the University of; Chemical Technology, founder and managing director of Pharmacan s.r.o.
Field of study: analytical chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, Pharmacan s.r.o., before: Czech Academy of Science
Language: Czech, English
Mentees: Students
What can I help my mentee with?
- Self-development on a professional and personal level
- Introducing the work of an academic
- Science management
- Preparation of scientific and popular science publications
- Establishing a company in the Czech academic environment
- Assistance with grant applications
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Honza came to study at the University of Science and Technology in a roundabout way, although chemistry has been with him since primary school. Eventually he chose crystal chemistry for his master's degree and then crystallography for his doctoral studies. While he was learning the "craft" of X-ray structural analysis at UCT, he looked for techniques that could demonstrate the structure of a given substance in a form other than a perfect crystal. Then came an offer to work in an NMR laboratory at one of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences after his PhD. Since then, crystal structures have remained but a hobby, and for 20 years he has devoted himself fully to the NMR spectroscopy analysis of organic substances. Gradually he found a liking for the analysis of complicated mixtures such as reaction mixtures, extracts of natural substances or biological matrices. Since 2023, he has been working at UCT again, where he is trying to create a team that would deal with NMR metabolomics as a diagnostic method.
During his 20 years in the environment of the Academy of Sciences, he has worked his way up from an inexperienced postdoc, researcher, head of the scientific department to deputy director. He has supervised student work at all levels in the fields of organic chemistry, organic technology and analytical chemistry at the University of Science and Technology. In 2016, he and his colleagues went through the martyrdom of setting up a spin-off company in an academic environment. Their company, which focuses on the isolation of cannabinoids from cannabis, was certified by State Institute for Drug Control to produce medicinal substances this year.
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Michal H. Kolář
Role: Research Group Leader
Employer: Max Planck Society; Former: Jülich Research Center, IOCB Prague
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- Academic and non-academic career planning
- Studying, working and living abroad
- Communication and presentation skills
- Work-life balance
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Michal is a theoretical chemist, scientist, university teacher and occasional organizer of social events at UCT Prague. He grew up in a small Moravian town, from which he moved to Prague, where, as he expected, he encountered a wild variety of opportunities.
In Prague, he entered the Faculty of Science of Charles University and studied chemistry, later focusing on theory and molecular modelling. He enthusiastically remembers the years spent at the Budeč dormitory. He received his doctorate while working at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, during which he also completed several internships abroad. For example, he regularly spent the autumn period in 2009-2011 at the University of Nahang in South Korea, from where he returned to Europe by train. Travelling by himself through Asia had brought him an enormous range of experiences.
After completing his doctorate and a short internship in France, he joined the German Research Centre Jülich as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship holder. He therefore gained access to the most powerful supercomputer in Europe at the time, which slightly directed his further career. On the other hand, he experienced some disappointment from the academic world. He completed his second postdoctoral fellowship much happier at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. That is when he began to deal with protein synthesis and ribosomes, which he is still doing today.
He returned to the Czech Republic in 2018 and founded his own group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, focusing on using computer simulations for large biomolecules research. In addition, he volunteered for the Czexpats in Science initiative, which brings together scientists with international experience. His free time is devoted to his three children, he likes visits to forests, drinking good coffee, indulging in the magical world of Harry Potter, but does not enjoy eating tomatoes.
As a mentor, he would like to share his experience, support mentees in their career steps or help make it easier for them to step out of their comfort zone. He himself would like to broaden his horizons and expose himself to new ideas.
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Jiří Wald
Area: Molecular and Structural Biology
Employer: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, German Electron Synchrotron DESY
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online
What can I help my mentee with?
- The path to PhD/PostDoc studies abroad
- Studying, working and living abroad
- Problem-solving strategies and critical thinking
- Communication and presentation skills
- Work-life balance: stress management and task planning
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Jiří is a determined scientist eager to uncover the secrets of the fundamental foundations of science and life. Thanks to his ability to set a clear vision and path to success, practical approach to things and his tenacity, there is no problem that would prove to be too challenging for him.
His journey through academic life began with his studies at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, where he first obtained a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Food Technology, followed by a master's degree in Biology and Microbiology. During his master's studies at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, he spent two semesters at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Living abroad has opened his horizons, gave him new opportunities and he has gained a lot of experience with academic work outside the Czech Republic, which he would like to pass on to his mentees.
After that, his functioning abroad was not over – his doctoral studies took place at the University of Vienna in the field of Structural Biology, where he wrote his doctoral thesis, which recieved great success and was published in the Nature journal.
During the pandemic, which unfortunately struck during his doctoral studies, Jiří once again proved that he is a truly steadfast and persistent scientist willing to face any problem head-on – in 2020, he volunteered to help in a diagnostic laboratory.
After completing his doctorate, Jiří took up his current position as a research scientist at the Faculty of Structural and Systems Biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he continues to explore the topic he developed in his doctoral thesis in depth.
Above all, Jiří would like to pass on to his mentees his innumerable experience and advice on how to live abroad. His scientific motivation is fueled by a curiosity about fundamental mechanisms of the world.
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ALDAR TSYBYKTAROV
Role: Manager
Area: Development, Construction, Data Analytics
Employer: NOVA ET VETERA, Honeywell
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english, russian
Form: Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- managing stress and pressure
- time management
- building self-confidence
- how to be mentally balanced with yourself and what you do
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Studying at an international high school, the Prague University of Economics and Business and then at Oxford gave Aldar an excellent knowledge of languages and contacts with people from all over the world. An international environment is still important to him today. In a five-year career at the international company Honeywell, he has worked from a starting position as a commercial real estate analyst up to a global management position. He has been responsible for complex project planning and building strategies around the world.
A year ago Aldar and his best friend started their own small development and construction company. Together they built the company completely from the ground up - creating a corporate identity, setting up internal processes and recruiting staff. Aldar is currently in charge of financial planning, contract management, the HR agenda, coordinating marketing activities, which includes working with the sales team, and also participating directly on construction sites during inspection days. "The overlap is enormous and it is one advantage of small companies - you get to experience much, much more than in large companies where people tend to be highly specialised."
Aldar would like to help students build their own confidence. "There are a lot of students who have potential, great skills, can achieve a lot, but just often don't believe in themselves. For example, they don't believe in applying to a prestigious university or they don't believe in getting a job. It's all in the head, and if I could ever help someone build confidence in themselves, that would be a huge personal achievement for me. That's the only way our society can move forward - if people are able to believe in themselves so that they can fulfill their plans and dreams." In addition, Aldar has always had a few mentors around him - mostly older friends he looks up to.
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Veronika Šímová
Role: Sales team manager
Field: Finance
Employer: Self-employed businesswoman; former: Plzeňský Prazdroj
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
What can I help my mentee with? :
- if they are considering changing fields
- reflect on their life purpose, goal setting, and time management strategies
- developing soft skills (presentation, marketing knowhow)
- offer them a sneak peek behind the walls of a managers work
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Veronika earned her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and biotechnology, immediately followed by a master’s degree in Economics and management of chemical and food-related industries. Within her master studies she was a part of a three-month internship in Plzeňský prazdroj, where she helped optimize the bottling line and then created a model simulation of this line, which she published in her diploma thesis. Next, she undertook an internship in Unipetrol, where she optimized the work in their chemistry laboratory thanks to a time study she carried out. She went on to win the Student science conference at UCT with this work.
She went into business even before she begun university, therefore she has more than ten years of experience, which she would like to pass onto her mentee. Throughout her bachelors’ studies she worked in marketing, where she gained experience by communicating with people in business meetings, learned how to make and give a presentation, and obtained a wide overview of the finance market. She also did financial analysis for her clients and created individual finance plans for them. Since 2018 she works as a sales team manager. Currently she is working independently, is a leader to a team of eighteen members, leads lectures on marketing, presentation and managing abilities and also secures development of expert knowledge for her team.
Veronika loves to work with people. Especially because she likes to help others grow, to learn new things and to reach their goals, but also because she is surrounded by a team of wonderful positive people who create a work environment full of inspiration. Within her work she is often concerned with concepts such as motivation, planning, time-management and self-development. Besides all this experience she is also familiar with the world of chemistry, and would gladly share her knowledge from all these areas with her mentee. „I would like to pass my experiences on and therefore give something back to my university. It is also very nice to still be in contact with the school. “
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Jitka Vallová
Role: Procurement Business Partner Confectionary CEE
Area: Purchasing, FMCG
Employer: Nestlé, Brenntag, Zentiva,
What can I help my mentee with?
- negotiations, project management
- basics of team leadership, motivation
- an overview of the corporate environment
- orientation in supply chain positions
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After graduating from UCT in 2004, Jitka was looking for a job where she could use her knowledge in chemistry and English. She knew she didn't want to work in the scientific field, so she looked for interesting trainee positions. She chose Brenntag's annual trainee programme, which took one candidate from each country in Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she tried out different positions in the company in several European countries, and before she could complete the program, the CEO offered her a permanent position as head of the food commodities department. "At that time, the skills I gained at our university - logical thinking, being able to piece together information, where to find it quickly, how to apply it in practice - helped me a lot." Through this position, she found that she really enjoyed the procurement field and wanted to stay in it. After four years, she joined Zentiva for a year and then received an offer from the company Nestlé, where she has worked ever since, for more than 10 years.
Her first position in Nestlé was as a tactical buyer. After two years there, she was offered her first managerial position, head of the raw material and packaging purchasing department, which had five employees, and Jitka continued working there until her maternity leave. During that time, she still worked part-time; for example, leading a project to transfer a part of the operational processes to a shared services centre in Ukraine. After several successful projects, Jitka was offered to take over the management of the entire purchasing team.
"In my opinion, purchasing is for people who are multifunctional, like variety and don't need a precise template for everything. It's very much about the creativity you need to bring to the job." Currently, Jitka is in charge of a team of 5 purchasing specialists in 3 countries, each covering purchasing for one manufacturing plant. The job involves, of course, trying to buy materials of the right quality at the best possible price, as well as the logistics part - getting the materials to where they need to go on time, communicating with the development department, the quality department, etc.
In addition to the corporate environment, Jitka also knows the non-profit sector well. She felt the need to balance the large company environment with something different, smaller, and therefore worked for ten years for a non-profit organization dedicated to creating events based on the principles of experiential pedagogy for adults. She wanted to become a mentor because, as she says, UCT is still a matter of the heart for her. In addition, in the past she had her own mentor who helped her a lot.
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Pavel Řezanka
Role: Research Fellow, Head of Radioanalytical Methods Group
Employer: UCT Prague
How can I help my mentee?
- Insight into the academic environment
- Experience of managing a research team in an academic institution
- Experience of putting innovative teaching styles into practice
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Graduated from the Faculty of Science at Charles University and the University of Technology in Prague. He is interested in separation techniques, in particular capillary electrophoresis, which he uses for chiral separations of mainly pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs. He also studies nanotechnology, specifically nanoparticles, where he studies their preparation, modification and use. Last but not least, he is interested in radioanalytical methods, specifically topics related to deep-sea repositories and radionuclides in the environment.
He currently serves as Head of the Radioanalytical Methods Group at the Department of Analytical Chemistry and as Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, and in other roles that arise from these positions.
He began to explore innovative teaching methods in 2020 and has introduced them in all the courses he teaches. He has also been awarded a PIGA project on the subject.
He likes to look for ways to solve problems his motto is "Anything goes, it's just the little kids that have to wear it."
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Olesja Lancevská
Role: project manager, leader of the Business academy course, facilitator of the acceleration program My first million
Area: innovation, start-up, business model, self-development
Employer: Technological innovation center in Zlín
What can I help my mentee with?
- Build a business model for their idea/project
- Learn to prioritize and put all necessary steps in the right order
- Identifying their goals and how to reach them, not just in the professional life
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Olesja came to Zlín to work as a project manager in the Technological innovation center after finishing her studies in Olomouc and Prague. She was in charge of the acceleration program for aspiring businessmen “My first million”. Thanks to her determination and hard work she quickly made her way up the career ladder, even though she had no experience with managing a project or with entrepreneurship. After six years she is now able to give students advice on their projects and can help them start their businesses and generate business ideas.
She and her colleagues are the authors of a business teaching methodology, which is now used in high schools, and at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. This year she completed a certified coaching course, which, as she believes, can make her very helpful to both the academic and student community.
She is entering the mentoring program with hopes to help students achieve their goals. She believes it is important to support young and talented individuals with the potential to succeed in the business world or become excellent employees. She will gladly share her experience with teaching business at a university with students as well as academic workers or doctorands, all of whom can become mentees to Olesja.
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Helena Staňková
Emplozer: Marketing BI former: Direct Fidoo, Saltpay
Language: Czech, English
We are working on completing this profile.
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Lubomír Kovařík,MSc.
Role: lecturer of educational activities in non-formal education
Area: education, soft skills development
Employer: Technologické inovační centrum, s.r.o.
What can I help my mentee with?
- awaken the initiative to implement their ideas
- create a healthy and effective environment in a team
- focus on sustainability, work with the future in mind/idea of the future
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Lubomír acquired a masters degree in Business and management at he Aston University in Birmingham in 2021. Perhaps it was right there, where his love for developing enterpreneurship and supporting world-changing projects was born.
He has been involved with non-formal education and lecturing since 2014 within the Atmosféra, z.s. association. He is also actively expanding the principles of non-formal education into the school systém. Since 2021 he has decided to use his experience with the conceptual thinking about educating others in the position of project manager and a lecturer of experience courses within the Technical innovation center in Zlin.
„I would love to be constantly saving the world, I like to give meaning to my actions and motivating young people to action and creativity.“ He loves to discuss which competences will be necesarry for a young person in 2035 to succeed in life. He spent some time living abroad and continues to deepen his experience through traveling. He enjoyes cycling and surfing.
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Role: CEO of the Technological Innovation Centre in Zlín
Area: Ph.D. - Business Process Management
Employer: TIC Zlín Former: Akademie Sting, CzechInvest, MŠMT
Language: czech and english
Mentees: students, staff and academics
What can I help my mentee with?:
- Business plan consultations
- Intention positioning on the market
- Building and validation of business models
- Building a Lean Canvas model
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Lukáš earned a doctoral degree in Management and Economy at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. Within his work in the academic circles it is worth mentioning, among other things, that Lukáš prepared case studies for the Mendel University students, and later he became the head deputy of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Sting Academy. With his current position as an executive at TIC Zlín he still reamins a lecturer at his alma mater where he teaches at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication in the Arts Management Atelier.
Apart from his academic career, Lukáš’s journey took him through several other interesting jobs. He considers his eight-year experience in the trade business to be fundemental, although his time spent working as an expert team member of the Individual project of the national KREDO at the Ministry of education, youth and sports is also worth mentioning. As is his position as the director of the CzechInvest regional office for the Zlín region.
Beside his profession he is also an enthusiastic skier and an even more enthusiastic father of two creative sons.
„For me, the key motivation to participate in the mentoring program is TEAMwork.“
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Role: Technical sales representative for biomedical applications
Area: Ultrasonic and laser welding of plastic products
Employer: DUKANE IAS s.r.o.; former: National Instruments, Digiteq
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?:
- I myself had no idea what my professional life would look like while still attending university (really, I had no clue at all) and I would have liked to meet the future me or someone like the person I am today to share their experiences with me
- I can share my insights on what is worth your time investment, what most mattered to my employers and what things did not matter at all; also, what matters to me, as an employer
- I can show you/teach you/ help you understand what I call a “healthy levity“ and how to use it both in work and in life
- I can take you on a visit to our manufacturing and offices, so that you can get a taste of a regular non-embellished work day
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Martin earned his Ing title in biomedicine at CTU. His passion for discussing big ideas in teams of interesting people was born in Ireland during his summer school stay in Dublin. A wide variety of expertise and life experiences, that is the kind of company where big and ambitious projects are put in motion. To this day he makes use of his sixth sense for finding talented innovators, whose ideas should definitely not stay hidden. That is, among other, one of the reasons Martin joined the mentoring program – to help find and realise these ideas, to bring them from a lab all to way to the market.
After his studies Martin joined the National Instruments firm, where he very quickly made his way from a Team leader to a Staff application Engineer. Beside team leadership he is also required to train, coach and recruit new employees.
Currently he works for Dukane as a Technical salesman for bio medicinal applications all across Europe. Apart from his profession he spends his time raising his three children, climbing mountains, in his workshop or with his bees.
He is joining the mentoring program with hopes to help today’s students to better navigate their way through studies and on the job market. „I like young people and their ideas, energy and different point of view on things. I myself would have appreciated a similar contact during my studies, and I feel like meeting me could definitely have merit for some students. “
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Thomas de Bruyne
Role: organizational psychologist, co-founder of BeInX
Area: psychology, VR and AR, leadership transformation, digital consulting
Employer: BeInX (co-founder) Former: Deloitte
Language: English and Dutch only
What can I help my mentee with?
- Advice on starting a business or entrepreneurship
- Navigating the corporate landscape
- Advice on projects related to immersive technologies
- Technology insights in the area of AR and VR
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Thomas is an organizational psychologist who got his MA at the University of Ghent. He is also a tech optimist with a fervent passion for co-creating a Future of Business. He envisions workplaces where individuals thrive within healthy, communal platforms. A strong believer in the transformative power of education and bold leadership, he sees these as the cornerstones of a prosperous world.
Virtual reality holds a special place in his heart, serving as his favored method for shifting leadership consciousness and speeding up the learning process. He also actively dives into innovations where psychology and technology converge. This includes VR, consciousness, biosensing & neuroscience, flow states, psychological safety, sleep, art, dreaming, and more. As a co-founder of BeInX, Thomas offers (aspiring) leaders and their teams immersive experiences tailored to the emerging futures of their industry. This vision aligns with his dedication to fostering a healthier Future of Business. Rooted in this is his conviction that a profound understanding of emerging technology drives healthier decision-making. This principle is a reflection of his experiences during his time establishing the Xperience Lab at Deloitte in his role as Co-Chair for the Transformative Tech community in the Czech Republic, Thomas cultivates connections and ignites conversations about the transformative power of technology.
He champions its potential to instigate profound shifts in consciousness for those audacious enough to embrace it. At the heart of Thomas' philosophy on mentorship is a relation built on inspiring and vulnerable exchanges of life experiences, ambitions, hopes, fears, and trust. He is personally looking forward to investing in such relationships that are fulfilling and empowering for both mentee and mentor alike.
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Jana Kamanová
Role: Vědecký pracovník, Vedoucí laboratoře buněčné biologie infekcí
Area: mikrobiologie, buněčná biologie, interakce patogen-hostitel
Employer: Microbiological departzment, Academy of science Czech republic
S čím mohu svému mentee pomoci?
- Vhled do akademického prostředí
- Zkušenosti s managementem výzkumného týmu v akademické instituci
- Zkušenosti se studiem v zahraničí
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Jana vystudovala molekulární biologii a buněčnou biologii na Přírodovědecké fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Postgraduální pobyt strávila v laboratoři Jorge Galána na Yale University v USA, kde analyzovala funkci efektorů sekrečního systému typu III u bakterie salmonely. Nyní vede výzkumnou skupinu na Mikrobiologickém ústavu Akademie věd ČR a zabývá se analýzou mechanismů virulence gramnegativních bakterií.
Co mohu nabídnout? Rozhovor, jisté zkušenosti a také svůj pohled na věc. Případného menteeho by věda měla zajímat natolik, že v současnosti uvažuje o tom, že by se jí v budoucnu věnoval. Mohu pak zodpovědět otázky a možná i upozornit na některá úskalí. Také můžeme mluvit o tom, jak vedu svůj tým, a co je pro mě důležité v jeho fungování.
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JAN FRONĚK
Role: Academic coach
Area: Career and Personal Development
Emmployer: Freelance, TEREZA Education Center
WHAT CAN I HELP MY MENTEE WITH?
- Create a road map to successful completion of a Ph.D. degree (setting a vision, motivation, plan)
- Balance study with work
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Helping teachers and other academics is something that has always made sense to Jan. While studying andragogy, he was already helping schools with programs for students and teachers, and during his PhD studies he most enjoyed teaching and connecting with new people. 12 years of teaching social psychology to American students was then a key experience for him.
The PhD period was a vivid one for Jan and brought him two big surprises. The first was the discovery that he and his wife, whom he had just married, did not want to live in the city. They bought an acre of land and decided to build a house and a small farm. The second surprise was the discovery of coaching. Jan got into coaching through a lecturing job at a company. "Suddenly someone explained to me how to define a goal and then how to work towards it. I've always been an honest student, so I started trying out the tricks on myself and on my own projects - like building a house and a farm, and eventually I even finished my own PhD thanks to that, although at one point I was losing motivation." Jan found that what he enjoys about coaching as an introvert is that it is a one-on-one conversation that visibly moves people along. He started coaching full time in 2010.
In addition to coaching, Jan currently works at the TEREZA Education Center, where he is in charge of a team of four that helps Czech teachers teach about nature in the outdoors. He creates training, methodologies and online support, with the aim of bringing children and nature closer together for the benefit of both.
He enters mentoring with the motivation "to help students, especially PhD students and postdocs, achieve their goals faster without losing their soul and relationships". And he is also looking forward to broadening his horizons and making connections at the technical school.
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PAVEL KUKULA
Role: executive director
Area: organic technology, catalyst production
Employer: RANIDO, former: Solvias, Süd-Chemie, Clariant
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to approach publishing correctly and effectively
- find your way around the labour market, even abroad
- how to approach important decisions
- work-life balance
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Pavel is a graduate of UCT Prague, where he worked in the field of catalysis within organic technology. After completing his PhD studies, he took up a PostDoc position at ETH Zurich, starting a career abroad for several years. From Switzerland, in addition to his scientific work at ETH, he has experience in the private sector, at Solvias. A key experience for him was the six years he spent at Süd-Chemie in Germany, where he worked his way up to the position of Head of Sales and Business-Development for Customer Catalysts. "It was a very important experience, firstly I travelled extensively for about three years and secondly I had the opportunity to go through the catalyst manufacturing process from the beginning, from various feasibility studies, technology validation, through the gradual scale-up to commercial production."
"I have gained a lot of experience abroad, I have often had to navigate difficult situations on my own. For example, it was not easy to find a job in Switzerland, I must have written 200 applications, and in Germany I was registered at the employment office for some time." After fifteen years abroad, Pavel decided to return to the Czech Republic and try his hand at business. During his time in Switzerland, he co-founded the company RANIDO. The impetus for this was finding a way to regenerate the Raney-nickel catalytic converter. However, despite successful testing, the idea could not be commercialized, so the business was abandoned. A few years later, however, the existing company became a good springboard for Paul to start a new business. He now works as Managing Director of RANIDO, a company that develops and manufactures custom catalysts.
"I think that nowadays, when we are really overwhelmed with information, it is very important to look for which ones make sense, if they are the right ones. Simply - to look for the truth. Even in the commercial sphere, where a company may look very attractive on the outside, but you have to check how it really works from an economic point of view. That can be quite complex and it's something that I'm learning myself at the moment." Pavel's motivation for getting involved in mentoring is mainly a desire to meet interesting people, to find out what it is like among students today, how they think, what they are interested in and what their ideas about life are.
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VOJTĚCH KUČERA
Role: Material Specialist
Area: materials chemistry
Employer: ŠKODA AUTO a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- comparison of the academic environment with the private sphere
- insight into the corporate environment
- presentation skills (in academia and in the corporate environment)
- how to organise your work effectively
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Vojtěch chose to further his studies at UCT after the general grammar school. He enjoyed chemistry and first wanted to study organic chemistry. However, in his second year he was lured by the offer to participate in a research project dealing with metal alloys with shape memory, so he switched to the field of Chemistry and Technology of Materials with a focus on metals and their alloys. He has remained in this field ever since. During his master's studies he went on an Erasmus trip to Lovan and then, in a split year, took a part-time job at METAL TRADE COMAX, which, among other things, recycles aluminium alloys. After defending his master thesis on the same topic, he did not hesitate and went on to get his PhD. After a year and a half of studying, Vojtěch felt he needed to take the plunge into something new. He was attracted by the idea of combining academia with industry, so he applied for the PhD programme at ŠKODA AUTO. He successfully completed five entrance interviews that tested various skills, including an assessment centre, and today he only needs to defend his dissertation to complete his PhD.
"It was a great experience for me to be able to work with many people with different know-how on my dissertation, which was very enriching." During his PhD, Vojtěch went to Taiwan and Canada for an internship; in addition to his supervisor at UCT, he also had a supervisor at the CTU, and part of the work was carried out in collaboration with the Technical University of Liberec and the Politecnica delle Marche University in Italy.
At the moment Vojtěch is working in the press and welding shop of the production plant. He is involved in material analysis, introduction of new materials and technologies and also deals with cooperation with universities on research projects. He also takes care of trainees. "In my experience with interns, not everyone is suited to the same environment, workload or people. I am happy when I get feedback and can then find a different type of work for them so that both parties are happy." At the moment, Vojtěch is the product owner of an innovative project to introduce new technology in the context of digitalisation of production, which collects input data and in the future should help to manage production so that it is smoother and "error free".
He is involved in mentoring because, as he says, he likes the programme and if he were a student at the moment, he would certainly take advantage of the opportunity himself. He is looking forward to helping the younger ones with his experience and also getting feedback on himself.
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LUĎKA FYLES
Role: Senior Vice President Pharmaceutical Affairs
Area: Farmaceutický průmysl
Employer: Pharmazet Alliance Group, former: MSD, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Norgine, Ranbaxy, Boots Healthcare International, Aurobindo , Eugia
What can I help my mentee with?
- Pharmaceutical Affairs (drug registration, quality assurance, distribution, pharmacovigilance - drug safety, medical information)
- advise on how to structure a career path
- project management - prioritisation, risk assessment, critical thinking, time management and the right choice of career focus
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After graduating from medicine, Luďka went through the path of finding the right place, through radiodiagnostics and working in a hospital, to a position as an assistant in pathological physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, to discovering pharmaceutical law in connection with medicine while working for pharmaceutical companies. It was very important for her not to lose this connection with medicine and discovering the field of pharmaceutical law became a challenge she could not resist. Thus, she completed her education in pharmaceutical law and started her 26-year career in Pharmaceutical Affairs, during which time she has worked for many international pharmaceutical firms and has now been based in London for over twenty years, where she now heads the London office of her home firm, where she has been Senior VP Pharmaceutical Affairs for over 12 years. During her career she has been responsible for all areas of pharmaceutical affairs - pharmacovigilance, drug registration, distribution and quality assurance. The connection with medicine won and today she is mainly involved in the area of registrations and pharmacovigilance at Pharmazet Alliance Group.
At the same time, Luďka says that the world of Pharmaceutical Affairs is very complex and the different parts are closely interconnected, offering good career development opportunities. "What I find very interesting about the legislative and control part of the pharmaceutical industry is the constant development of pharmaceutical law and the possibility of work placements from Europe to Asia, which is now the main centre of the pharmaceutical industry. The opportunity for training, which never ends, is an interesting parallel with medicine and the need for lifelong learning. Add to this the job opportunities that take you to places in Europe, India or China, and pharmaceutical affairs is a choice you will never tire of."
Luďka also has many years of experience working not only in England, but also in Malta, India, Vietnam or China, but in London she found her second home and despite frequent trips to Prague, she still lives here with her family. She says she would like to give back to students through mentoring the valuable advice and help she has received on her career path "Everyone has to discover their own path and we all have a different approach, it is important to discover a field that we will not only make a living in but also enjoy. I am very happy to give advice and pass on my experience, but the decision will always be yours, as only you can write an interesting book of your life, we should be there as your background and support.
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ONDŘEJ PÁNEK
Role: Production Director; former: project engineer, launch leader, lean manager
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
What can I help my mentee with?
- project management (from research to production line start-up)
- working with people
- insight into the workings of a large company
- presentation skills
- personal development
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Ondřej is a graduate of UCT Prague, with field of study of pure chemistry and technology of environmental protection. He prolonged his studies by one year because of Erasmus in Sweden and also because he always tried to explore other activities beside his studies, for example he was a member of ESN. Studying abroad inspired him to start looking for a job as soon as he returned. He successfully passed Procter & Gamble's selection procedure and started a one-year internship at a manufacturing plant in Rakovník. His task was to increase the efficiency of the sulphonation unit, which he did - he ended his internship by presenting his results to the company's management, and he was also offered a full-time job once he graduated. During his last summer as a student, he also managed an internship in the R&D department of a company in Frankfurt.
When Ondřej resigned, the company was opening a new engineering centre in Rakovník, which seemed to him to be an ideal combination between production and R&D. This proved to be the case and he spent eight years in the department, during which time he worked in various project management positions and was in charge of projects for the production and packaging of detergent powders throughout Europe. At the urging of his manager, he subsequently decided to try a job more in the manufacturing area. As a launch leader, he took over a newly installed unit from the engineers and was tasked with bringing it to life, including all the necessary certifications and testing. He then handed over the equipment to the production department.
Another role was that of lean manager, who is responsible for keeping an eye on how the production processes are set up in terms of efficiency. "Here again, I got a glimpse into the imaginary kitchen to see how production works here." After a few years in manufacturing, however, he wanted to return to project work, and took up the position of technical director, with all investments going through the engineering group under his direction. Today, Ondřej is Production Director for Lenor's manufacturing and packaging operations.
In his role as a mentor, he hopes to make contacts outside of the corporate environment and looks forward to sharing his experience from six different roles in one chemical company. He is also interested in reconnecting with his alma mater and student energy.
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EDITH KUTORGLO
Role: PostDoc
Area: Functional nanomaterials, membrane chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, TU Berlin
Mentoring language: english
Form: online, personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to put together a CV, how to prepare for an interview
- project management, grant preparation
- work-life balance
- colloidal chemistry and nanoparticles synthesis
- introducing them to people in the field
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Edith's study path began with her Biochemistry degree from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She graduated with the best grades at the top of the class and for her Master degree in the field of Membrane Engineering, she got an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, within which she spent one semester in each of the following countries: Czech Republic, France, Spain and the UK. For her PhD studies at UCT Prague (in the field of Chemical and Process Engineering) she settled for some time in Czechia, however also during this time she went on an internship at ETH Zürich.
Her rich experience from studying and working abroad is now being followed by her PostDoc position at TU Berlin. Within her scientific work she is developing new catalyst materials which could, together with the energy from sunlight, be used to drive certain reactions for producing cleaner energy.
Edith has always been mentored throughout her scientific career path. “I can't imagine how difficult it would be to do it all by myself without any help or advice. I believe everybody is different and has a different approach, so the mentor is not there to teach you how to do things. He/she is there to share their own experience. Imagine, you are going somewhere, but you don't know what is ahead, because you have never been there. It is a great help if someone else, who has already been there, can share their experience so you have an idea what to expect and prepare for it.”
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ŠTĚPÁN HODAČ
Role: Managing Director
Area: Food industry
Employer: Beavia
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to build a company from the ground up
- retail on a national and international level
- food production
- inside look at building a company with a legal overlay.
LinkedIn profil
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Štěpán already knew during his law studies, which he successfully completed, that he did not want to pursue this field in his professional life. However, it was more by chance that he started a company in the food industry. 14 years ago, he travelled the world, tasted hummus for the first time during a visit to Israel, and was completely enchanted by this food. When he returned home, he discovered that this delicacy was not available on the Czech market, which gave him the idea to start a business in this area. After a short analysis, he decided that it would be best to start producing and supplying hummus to shops. Since he knew nothing about food production, he locked himself in the library for three months and studied materials from the University of Science and Technology. He again learned about operations from friends who had their own restaurant. In 12 years, he managed to build a company with a turnover of about 40 million a year with operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Austria and Germany.
"If I had known then what was in store for me, I wouldn't have gone for it. That was the so-called fool's trick, the sweet ignorance. You have your vision, but you can't think it through properly without relevant experience. Then difficult situations come up and those around you tell you they don't have a solution because they already have that professional blindness, but they haven't even tried." In the beginning, Štěpán worked even 12 hours a day, and because he planned his start poorly financially, he found himself, for example, eating only hummus and pastries for three months. Even though he hit rock bottom, he remembers this period fondly. "I absolutely love the moments when you go through a skeletal period and at the end you reap the fruits and you think - I made it."
Stepan now runs the company mainly financially and strategically. He thinks about where he wants the company to be in a year, in ten years. At the same time, he still enjoys presenting the company, showing people what they do and how they do it. He is still learning how to work with people, motivate them and supervise their work. For him, mentoring is mainly a process of learning and personal growth.
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MAJA KĄDZIOŁA-AVBERŠEK
Role: Regulatory Affairs Manager
Area: Pharmaceutical chemistry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: GSK, Wrigley (Mars)
What can I help my mentee with?
- the characteristics of regulatory affairs (focusing on major markets like EU, CA, BR and US)
- how to get started in the regulatory field
- how to balance work dynamics between different project in a timely manner
- how to efficiently work in a dynamic cross-functional and cross-continental environment
- the particulars of moving abroad and career development
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While studying Chemical Technology at Poznań University of Technology in Poland, Maja got her first job experience as an intern in Logistics and Integrated Business Management at Wrigley. There she gained a good overview of the workflow and organization of a big corporation. “I think this helped me in my future jobs, as I started early and when I finished my studies, I already had experience with working in a large corporation.” Her first full-time job was a Junior Regulatory Specialist at GSK Pharmaceuticals in Poznań, where she gained knowledge regarding regulatory requirements. After six months of working there, she received an offer to move to GSK Biologicals in Belgium and to work in the field of registration of vaccines, which led her to dive deeper in the biological sphere, rather than her chemical background.
Currently Maja works as a Regulatory Affairs Manager at Sandoz Development Center in Austria. Her responsibility is to provide the research and development team with support throughout the registration process of a new drug. Her guidance includes facilitation of the communication with EMA (European Medicines Agency) or FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) in order to get the new drug approved and registered as soon as possible. Maja is also responsible for the regulatory strategy.
Maja enrolled in a MBA study programme to learn more about the field of business. “It is a lot of work and you have to be well organized. During weekdays I’m working and I spend the weekends studying. However, it is rewarding to have a better understanding of business.” Maja decided to join our mentoring program because she wants to give back what has been given to her - she has had a few mentors who helped her with her career. She also thinks that it is beneficial to stay connected with younger people and to learn from them.
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ALENA NOVÁKOVÁ
Role: MS&T technical specialist, project manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Novartis, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaxeon Consulting SRO
What can I help my mentee with?
- developing communication skills
- project management
- get an insight into pharmaceutical manufacturing
- work-life balance
- time-management
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Alena graduated from Drug Synthesis and Production at UCT Prague and already during her studies she was collaborating with the company Teva Pharmaceuticals where she also started a full-time job after graduation. In her first year she went through several positions in the production department, gained insight, and finally settled as a transfer technologist. After three years of intense work dealing with more and more complicated projects, she started struggling with burnout. As part of a necessary lifestyle change, she decided to move to the riverside of Otava where she opened her own bar and built a returnable cup system along the entire river. She set the workflow, communicated with the sanitary authorities, the tax office and other institutions, worked as an operator, hired employees, etc. “I think that sometimes you need to take a break to see what you're actually missing, and after a while I realised I was missing pharmacy." However, her new experience made her realise that she enjoyed project management, so she applied for a job as a project manager at a consultancy company that deals with drug registrations. Currently, Alena works at Novartis where she is responsible for supporting manufacturing in implementing process changes so that new procedures can be validated.
On top of this, Alena began her MBA studies in Management Soft Skills with the start of the pandemic. "I live in a constant state of change, and that brings an important ability to adapt. There are a lot of things we can't control. Sometimes it happens that you work on something for three months; then suddenly someone above you wants something completely different. That's the way it is, but you have to take it with a pinch of salt." Alena sees mentoring as an opportunity to support each other through contact with other people who are similarly set up. Students, she says, should be aware that they want to go the extra mile and be open.
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ANDREA MARUŠÁKOVÁ
Role: senior tester
Area: IT
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.
What can I help my mentee with?
- identifying and organizing priorities
- knowing how to manage yourself
- take an active approach to work
- finding motivation
- how to create the conditions for deep work
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In high school, Andrea's learning always went well on her own, she didn't have to work too hard and she thrived with honors. She enjoyed maths, studying foreign languages and was interested in computer games. So she chose the Faculty of Information Technology at CTU for further studies, where she was hit quite hard after high school. She found that college was largely about self-study, which she found challenging - she didn't know how to learn effectively. After a year, she dropped out of school and applied to study tourism at the University of Economics. But she eventually chose the challenge again and ended up back at CTU in Biomedical Engineering, where she finally found herself and ended up using the knowledge and skills from FIT. When she was looking for a part-time job to join the school, she saw an offer for a software tester position at BTL. The position, despite her misgivings (from school, Andrea felt she should go to work in a hospital) was appealing, and she eventually took it and stayed on full time after completing her Master's degree.
"I'm a person who doesn't like to be bored at work, so as soon as there was an opportunity to take on some extra responsibility, I didn't say no." So she gradually added other responsibilities such as automated test programming, documentation and translation to her regular job as a tester, which involves testing the application and verifying requirements. Naturally, she fell into the position of "test lead" and acts as a liaison for all colleagues in the department, as well as training new ones. She sees this as a hugely profitable investment - if she is thoroughly involved with a person and they learn the activity well, she herself will have less work to do in the future. Moreover, she likes to see someone move on thanks to her.In her spare time, she enjoys reading books on personal development, which is what her perfectionism has led her to do in the first place. "A lot of people take perfectionism as an enviable trait, everyone appreciates it, your boss praises you, but internally it eats you up. You keep piling on more work, and if you really want to do it properly, then it's just too much - a typical example of toxic perfectionism." In mentoring, Andrea hopes that by sharing her experiences she can help the student with his/her own direction and also sees the programme as a space to meet new people, which she misses after graduation.
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ANNA FUČÍKOVÁ
Role: Associate Professor
Area: Nanomaterials, Biophysics, Chemical Physics
Employer: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, the Academy of Sciences
What can I help my mentee with?
It depends on the needs of the mentee - they should come and say what they need to help with. They can agree on how the mentee can develop in the direction they choose with Anna.
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Anna studied as a biophysicist, but as she says, the post doc position at KTH made her become a chemist as well. She works with nanomaterials and their potential applications in biology. Her work includes their synthesis, chemical and physical analysis and cytotoxicity studies. Despite living with dyslexia, dysgraphia and dysorthographia, Anna has managed to overcome these obstacles and now she is doing what she enjoys most - science. She has published extensively and her scientific work has been recognized with several prestigious awards.
As a mentor, she would like to help students reach their full potential. She believes that it is very important to have a chance to ask a senior person any question to clarify one's own life goals and broaden one's horizons. "My goal is that a student who comes to me and starts at a certain percentage, leaves a hundred percent better. It's up to them what they need to improve."
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DAVID ŠKVAŘIL
Role: People and Customer Care, Partnerships
Area: Finance
Employer: Fondee; former: Future Port, Air Ventures, BCG, MALL pay, Alza
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to be active outside of school
- outline what different roles in companies look like
- self-development
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David picked up a lot of extracurricular activities right after starting his freshman year at UCT. As he says himself, he had this twisted idea at the time that studying was not enough and he wanted to try everything that tempted him. He joined the student associations IAESTE and ESN and found a part-time job in a recruitment agency. "It just seemed important to me to do something, so I picked up quite a lot quite randomly. I figured I'd somehow make it work, and if I didn't, I'd at least give it a try and see what I enjoyed." Of his student activities, he most enjoyed being involved in IAESTE, working with companies and organizing the fair; he stayed in the association for three years. But at the same time, after completing his freshman year at FPBT, he realized that he was more attracted to other fields and transferred to CTU, where he studied economics.
During his studies, he completed an internship at a marketing agency and then tried out the things he had learned in practice at Alza, where he focused mainly on online advertising. Another role he tried was as an ambassador at the Boston Consulting Group. He organized various events to help promote the company to students. At the same time, David started working at a small investment fund that looked for start-ups that made sense to invest in. It was mostly about working with data and communicating with people from startups. Another student position was as a coordinator in healthcare and finance for Future Port Prague, a technology festival at the Prague Exhibition Centre. David became interested in finance, so his next experience was working for MALL pay. This eventually led him to his current position, which combines several areas that he enjoys - finance, start-up environment, working with people.
"The fact that I've changed so many different environments wasn't because I had a grand plan of what I wanted to learn. As a student, you really have a lot of options and it only costs you a little bit of time to try them out. So I tried things that appealed to me and where I could learn something new, and that made me realize what I really enjoyed, what made sense to me at the time, and where I really wanted to work." At Fondee, David has three main responsibilities - looking after HR (recruitment, selection, job design for individual roles, internal events), working with other companies and customer care.
He knows both sides of mentoring himself and says he has moved along his own path and learned new things through it. He looks forward to being able to help his mentee in the same way, plus he enjoys meeting new people who are tuned in to the same way he is.
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DENISA LIZOŇOVÁ
Role: PostDoc
Area: Chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
Employer: UCT Prague
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to organize time effectively
- how to present one's work
- recognise and further develop one's own potential, apply personal strengths
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Denisa has been working in the field of pharmaceuticals since the beginning of her studies at UCT Prague. She completed part of her PhD studies in Drugs and Biomaterials at Imperial College London. Her research in the field of targeted drug delivery involves collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences and the company Zentiva. She is a member of the Chobotix research group where she is working in the area of nanoparticles and nanotherapeutics primarily for the treatment of cancer.
A crucial part of her work is the education of young scientists. Denisa has worked with a total of fifteen MSc and BSc students, who she led to successful graduation. Working with people and teaching science is fulfilling for her. She enjoys showing her students how to "use your brain in everything you do. It’s possible to get a degree in the same way as if you followed a recipe and baked a cake. But it's nothing I pride myself on." Denisa tries to guide all of her students to be able to work creatively and innovatively and to be independent scientific individuals. However, she believes these principles can be applied outside of the academic sphere as well. She enjoys helping students learn how to present their work and themselves and how to articulate their ideas clearly. Another area of interest which Denisa is happy to help her mentees with is how to effectively organize one’s time so that in addition to studying and working, one also has time for oneself and one’s interests.
Denisa is one of the founders of one of the largest student associations UNI-ART, a singer in the popular university band, Band4Students, and an avid player of sports.
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FILIP MICHALSKÝ
Role: Data Scientist
Area: Finance
Employer: Fidelity Investments
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to get into prestigious universities abroad (USA, Germany, UK)
- machine learning
- business development
- start-ups
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Filip started by studying process engineering and computer science at UCT Prague. After a year, he attended Bates College in Maine, USA, and he also spent a year at TUM in Munich. For his master’s degree, he was accepted to seven Ivy League universities, ultimately choosing the Computational Science program at Harvard. "Studying there is not harder than it was at UCT, but the difference is that you get to meet a lot of fascinating people from all over the world, and that was really an experience."
He has gained professional experience at several companies, starting out in hospital device consulting, then co-founding the Checkmate Diabetes platform, and the commercial real estate analytics company DeepREa. Today, he is a senior data scientist at a financial services company with over 60,000 employees. He researches recommender systems and delivers models to production. Within the company, he serves as a mentor for aspiring data analysts. Filip is also currently building a digital marketplace for investment mortgages in US real estate (www.corelant.com)
He enjoys creating products that impact people and have the potential to make a difference in the world. "I like things that go wide rather than deep. I like working with people, and my philosophy is that at first I'll try to do everything myself to learn the principles and understand how it works, and then I'll hire people to take over some of the work from me." Another motivation for joining a mentoring program is the desire to give back. Filip would like to become a philanthropist one day.
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IVAN SOUČEK
Role: director
Area: chemical industry, economics and management
Employer: Union of Chemical Industry; former: Kaučuk Kralupy a.s., Unipetrol, Paramo Kolín a.s., Česká rafinérská a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight into strategic planning, investment decision making
- transfer of experience from the industry - oil processing, alternative fuels, biofuels
- orientation on the labour market and employment opportunities
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Ivan graduated in plastics production and processing technology and started his professional career as an operations technologist at Kaučuk Kralupy. During the 11 years there he worked his way up to head of the strategic planning department, an area he has been involved in ever since. His first job was negotiating with potential foreign partners and drawing up long-term strategic plans, and in 1995 this work led to Ivan being one of the first three employees to found Unipetrol and to participate in the creation of the joint stock company Česká rafinérská. At Unipetrol, he was involved in science, research, development and investment and became a member of the Board of Directors. Other work experience includes the position of General Manager of Korama Kolín and Česká rafinérská a.s., in 2012-2015 managing the preparation of a large refinery project abroad. Since 2016, Ivan has been a director of the Chemical Industry Association, an association that provides advocacy, education support, communication with the state and European administration, and support to member organizations in selected areas related to the chemical industry. They also promote chemistry to the public and bring together companies and research institutions and schools.
Throughout his rich industrial career, Ivan has also devoted himself to his studies. After graduating from college in Russia, he decided to attend the University of Economics in addition to his full-time job. "Studying at a full-time job is really a big deal, especially if you enjoy the work extra. So I ended up quitting after five semesters, but I managed to learn what I wanted to learn." He took several international economics courses - including a 2-year course from the University of Chicago and DePaul University, a 2-month production management course in Japan, and a 1-year sector economics and management course in Milan. He completed his studies only in 2007, when he successfully completed his PhD studies at the Institute of Economics and Management, University of Economics and Management. However, he continues to teach and is the author of nine books on strategic planning and more than a hundred articles and conference papers so far.
For the same reason he chose to teach, Ivan is now involved in mentoring. "Naturally, one would make do with work alone. The work I do here at the school is really extra and I certainly won't get rich from it. But the point is that you learn a lot of things in your lifetime and it would be a huge shame to keep it to yourself."
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JAKUB ROSÁK
Role: Marketing and Business Development Specialist
Aera: Energy
Employer: Primagas, Linde, Becherovka
What can I help my mentee with?
- business
- marketing
- gain an insight into the operations of small businesses and corporations
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Since childhood, Jakub has been drawn to creative activities and has enjoyed music and literature. However, he wanted to get an education in a technical field, so he applied for studying at the UCT. After finishing his bachelor's studies in Chemical Engineering, he knew that although he loved chemistry on paper, he did not see his future in the laboratory. Therefore, he chose an economics-oriented field for further studies, and during his studies he started working at the marketing department of the large chemical company, Linde. This experience mainly gave him an insight into a large international corporation. "You learn a lot of different things at school, but often you don't really have a clear idea of who is responsible for what in the company and how it works." Another work experience was a year-long trainee programme in Becherovka, where he was tasked with analysing sales data for the sales department.
After graduating, he started working in the company Primagas, where he still works today. At the beginning he was in charge of the complete marketing agenda of the company, but gradually he started to add sales projects to it. Currently, for example, Jakub is in charge of the contract through which almost the entire volume of LNG in the Czech Republic is traded. Three and a half years of working in a smaller company allowed him to try out a large number of activities and gain a broader perspective.
"I would like to motivate students to start as soon as possible: write to a few companies you like, go to a few interviews, and be active. I think that's most beneficial because you get to look inside, you get to know the people." He also believes that it is good to differentiate yourself when looking for a job by having an interesting hobby or activity outside of school. Jakub has been singing and playing guitar in a big-beat band for eight years, was a dramaturg in the cultural student association UNI-ART throughout his studies, and in his spare time he is a pilgrim. Through mentoring, he wants to meet students who are studying energetics, fuels or gas chemistry as part of their studies and get to know (perhaps in Carbon) what's new in research in this area.
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LUDĚK MICHAL
Role: Sales and Technical Representative
Area: Materials, Chemical Industry
Employer: BASF; formerly: SILON
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- transferring experience in the industry and chemistry of compostable plastics
- explanation of the particle foam process
- time management
- work-life balance
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Luděk knew already in primary school that he wanted to work in chemistry; therefore, he enrolled in a vocational chemical school within the state-owned company SILON. After graduating from UCT Prague with a focus on chemistry of polymers, he started working there. After two years he joined the company BASF, where he has been working for more than 25 years till today. His first position was s sales representative for polyurethane foam sales in the Czech Republic. Gradually he was given responsibility for other sales regions and products, and is now responsible for a large part of Europe.
His main job is to find new customers and take care of existing ones, with whom he also works on developing new applications. These are mainly orders for the automotive industry. "So you could say that we are working together on the development of a new application and then working together on the production of a test prototype series."Why does Luděk want to become a mentor? "Well, I want to try something new, and I miss UCT Prague, which I graduated from."
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JAN JELÍNEK
Role: Business-Designer, Project Manager, Consultant
Area: Innovation Design, Marketing, Management & Leadership, Startups, Creative Industry
Employer: Q Designers, freelancer, Nerudný fest (founder)
What can I help my mentee with?
- developing and testing products and services with customers
- setting strategy and business models
- effectively manage processes and projects
- setting up good team collaboration
- keeping priorities in order, performing well, but living "like a human being"
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Jan and his classmates founded their first company at the age of 17 for the purpose of a school festival at the Jan Neruda Gymnasium. Within a few years, one of the most significant productions in the Czech Republic organizing music festivals developed from the project. Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and creativity led Jan to other projects. He helped his mother start her own family publishing house Naše kniha, founded the first DJ Zkušebna in Prague, and the local black initiative Na Nohou.
After high school, Jan went on to study sociology and economics at Charles University. Here he became more interested in marketing and management. As part of his studies, he completed an internship at Perfect Crowd, a marketing agency that combines creativity and research. He later completed his education with an MBA at the Prague International Business School.
In addition to his own projects, Honza started to freelance more and more. "I help companies grow," Honza answers when asked about his primary focus. "I don't like to use the word consultant. Experience has taught me that good advice is usually not enough for big changes. When building or changing something big, it's first and foremost about working with people and building a solid foundation. With both, companies, like people, usually need not only advice but also help."
Currently, he works primarily at Q Designers as an innovation and business designer. In addition, he helps small and large companies with marketing, project and process management as well as business analytics and strategy. He has completed dozens of large projects for companies such as Česká spořitelna, Rohlík Group, Nano Energies and Kytary.cz.
Jan has devoted his career to working in the creative sector, focusing on connecting business and impact projects. He is also interested in personal development, mental health and sustainability in the broadest sense. He enjoys getting to know new people and their unique worlds. "If I see potential somewhere, I can't help but try to squeeze it out of people and companies," explains Honza why, among other things, he accepted the invitation to join the mentoring programme.
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JAROSLAV SALLER
Role: Internal Audit Manager
Area: Finance, Consulting, Audit
Employer: Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte Audit, Deloitte Advisory, Neox
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- gain insight into the corporate environment
- discuss options how to start your career path
- advise on how to write a cover letter, resume
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The first important work experience for Jaroslav was a part-time job at McDonald's. He would recommend everyone try such a job. What he took away from it was the knowledge that the company's processes can be devised almost to perfection in order to make them as fast, safe and functional as possible. He graduated from UCT Prague and, as he says about himself, was not one of the best students. However, the university gave him the important ability to think analytically. He still uses this skill in his work. Jaroslav knew that he wanted to work on his thesis in cooperation with a business. He collaborated with the company Neox, for which he designed a business continuity plan that the company still uses today.
After graduation, he first started working at Deloitte in the audit department where he worked on inspections in companies in various industries across the country. After more than two years, he changed departments and spent the next three years doing due diligence on the purchase and sale of companies. A period of change followed both in his professional and personal life, and after five months off work, Jaroslav joined Johnson & Johnson where he started again almost from scratch as a senior financial auditor. Beyond his position, he was also involved in internal training in which he was trained in various areas to become a lecturer and to lead workshops for other employees. Thanks to this extra activity, Jaroslav is currently starting a new position as an Internal Audit Manager for EMEA.
And why does Jaroslav want to join the mentoring programme? "I have been very lucky in my life, but at the same time I have never been afraid to go for it. It's important not to be afraid to ask people for help because they usually agree. Now I would like to give back to the world."
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KAREL ZHENG
Role: Manager, Founder
Area: Technology Startups, Finance
Employer: Accomango, BCG, KAYA (Enern), Twisto
What can I help my mentee with?
- realizing a startup with only an idea (funding, work team, clientele)
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Karl's career kicked off before he started university, when he began flying to China as a translator for large Czech companies. Through his translation work, he gained insight into the field of business and entrepreneurship. While studying at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, he worked as an intern at BCG and subsequently joined the venture capital fund Enern (now KAYA) as an analyst. The fund invests in start-ups–this is how companies such as rohlik.cz, Slevomat or Footshop grew. When Karel decided to try the other side and started working in a young company called Twisto, where he helped with fundraising and smart growth, he soon realized that he wanted to build a company himself. He and his friend Patrik Havlíček then put together several ideas, which after four failed attempts resulted in Accomango.
At Accomango, they are trying to improve the process and quality of employee accommodation for industrial companies and recruitment agencies. They have developed a platform that simply connects companies looking for accommodation for their workers on the one hand and lodging houses on the other. "It may not sound like the sexiest business, but we're working with some awfully smart people on this, and it's a big market that no one is paying attention to." The company has received backing from several large investors. Karel was primarily responsible for building the technology team, taking care of fundraising, setting strategy and building the product.
His activities have led to his inclusion in the Forbes '30 under 30’ in 2021. You can hear more about the things he enjoys and is passionate about in the podcast below. Karl himself has been fundamentally influenced by several mentors he has had in his life. "You know you can talk to someone, and it's not part of some hidden agenda when someone gives you advice. That's the philosophy - if the people around you are successful, you can be successful too, because of them and with them."
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KATEŘINA SLADKÁ
Role: technologist
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: LB Minerals; former: ALS, Klokner Instritute of CTU
What can I help my mentee with?
- outline the differences between working in academia and the private sector
- how to find what I enjoy in scientific work
- how to travel abroad while studying
LinkedIn profil
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Since high school, Kateřina has been interested in chemistry and mathematics, so she applied to study at the University of Science and Technology, majoring in Analytical Chemistry. She quickly realised that she was more interested in chemical engineering calculations and technology rather than laboratory measurements and pipetting, so she chose to pursue a Master's degree in this field. As part of her studies she travelled twice, the first trip was a study stay in Nuremberg and the second was a work placement at a Croatian university.
While still studying, she tried her hand at part-time work as a researcher for the Klokner Institute, where she was mainly involved in infrared spectrometry. After obtaining her engineering degree, she also applied for a PhD thanks to this work, but soon decided to leave her studies, as she was drawn towards a technological position rather than a research position.
Currently, Kateřina works as a technologist at LB Minerals, a company that deals mainly with kaolin processing. As a technologist, Kateřina is responsible for the optimal setting of technology parameters and chemical dosage. She also has a small part of research work left - she is also involved in development tasks in the company.
And why does Kateřina want to get involved in mentoring? "I chose analytical chemistry at the time because I thought it would be cool to indicate colour changes in solutions and find out what it was by that. But I soon found out that the reality was something else. If I can help someone who doesn't quite know where to go with their studies or career, I would be very happy to help."
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KATRIN NEUBAUEROVÁ
Role: Researcher
Area: Bioengineering
Employer: Bene Meat
What can I help my mentee with?
- independence in scientific work (how to develop your own project, how to set up a start-up strategy)
- optimizing systems
- design of 3D scaffolds
- working with materials
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Katrin works at Bene Meat, a biotech startup, where they are researching and developing technology for the production of artificially cultured meat. She came to the company in its early days, and as she was the only person on the team who had never worked with cell cultures, she started taking care of everything else - bioreactor design, materials research, and media purification. So, she tried her hand at many areas and ended up doing research and development of 3D scaffolds and bioreactor design for cell culture. "You have to make clear what your goal is and then whatever you need to achieve it, you have to be able to procure or learn. Be flexible and don't be afraid, even if you're going somewhere you don't know."
Katrin enjoys organizing her time. "I stand by the fact that once I leave work I don't want to think about it anymore. In the research area this is challenging because your work is always running through your head. But if you set it up functionally, then it makes sleeping and eating and living in general so much better." She is also motivated to get involved in mentoring by her desire to work with people, to help students with the hardships she herself has gone through, and to help them find paths they can take in life.
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KRISTÝNA KANTNEROVÁ
Role: PostDoc
Area: Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Employer: ETH Zürich
Mentoring language: czech, english
What can I help my mentee with?
- grant submission
- writing scientific articles
- admission into universities abroad
- dealing with mental health while studying
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Kristýna has been involved in chemistry since high school when she participated in the Chemistry Olympiad and clubs. In her final year at high school and during her studies at the UCT Prague, she worked in a laboratory at the Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD studies at the Swiss research institute EMPA, during which she developed a new method for the isotopic analysis of nitrous oxide by laser spectroscopy and its applications. She also spent three months on a research fellowship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, which was supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
She was then further involved in nitrous oxide isotopic analysis within her post doc position at ETH Zurich, specifically dealing with the interface of analytical and environmental chemistry. She recently applied for a Swiss National Grant (SNF postdoc mobility) for two years in the United States that was successfully funded. Since January to April 2022, Kristýna works at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen on the development of an isotope-analysis method for oxyanions with Orbitrap mass spectrometry; since May 2022, she will continue in this topic at CU Boulder, in the scope of the funded postdoc fellowship.
"I think if a student wants to get somewhere, they need a mentor. It's important to be able to ask and hear the opinion of someone who has been through the same thing. I didn't have that opportunity and I feel like I missed it." Kristýna is also motivated to get involved in mentoring from her experience of dealing with mental health difficulties in her studies and the opportunity to help someone get through something similar or to help them prevent such difficulties.
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LENKA KADEŘÁBKOVÁ
Role: Director
Area: Education, Volunteering
Employer: INEX-SDA, Startup Jobs
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to set your goals, preferences and personal vision
- how to organize your time effectively
- learn different methods to find out what you enjoy
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Lenka graduated from a Waldorf school, which has a particular view on pedagogy. Through her studies there, she got very close to working with people. At the same time, she always wanted to be connected to nature and animals, so she decided to study at UCT Prague with the aim of understanding chemistry and basic relationships in nature so that she one day could work for the good of people and animals in general. While studying at UCT Prague, Lenka was an active member of the association IAESTE, and through her work there she realized that she believed in education and she enjoyed leading a team and working in an international environment. From this point, she began to form her vision to create opportunities for people to learn.
As a chemistry graduate, Lenka started working for a startup and then for the american company CEA Prague where she helped foreign students find internships and acted as a mentor for them. In 2019, she applied for the position of director of the NGO INEX-SDA, and she got the job. INEX-SDA deals with international volunteering and intercultural education. Lenka's work as directress is divided into three main sections - the first is the HR agenda, i.e. taking care of the staff, then the strategic management of the organisation and finally securing funding, which involves finding grants and their administration.
For Lenka, inspiration is the biggest value that guides her life. "I think mentoring is just about getting inspired. I admire when people have the will to develop themselves, I think it's very important. And when a person is willing to draw on someone else's experience and knowledge, they can be inspired."
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LUCIE NUÑEZ
Role: Head of Department for the European Research Area
Area: Research and Development, European grants
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
What can I help my mentee with?
- career guidance (in the scientific field)
- networking in the research sector
- insight into public administration
- the grants agenda and its process
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Lucie works as a Head of the Department for the European Research Area Unit at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Her team consists of 10 staff members, whom she coordinates, and together they deal with the cooperation of research institutes (universities, research organisations, etc.) within the European Union. For example, they support Czech researchers in their participation, promote opportunities and challenges, negotiate with the European Commission and other member states in the form of cooperation, and administer research programmes in a number of scientific sectors. A more specific example is the European Partnerships where Lucie is responsible for negotiating the form of these partnerships and their funding or coordination at a national level. The partnerships launch calls for proposals and then collaborate with other EU countries on the awarded projects. Lucie says that "Czech researchers tend to be successful both nationally and internationally, but there is still a lack of greater motivation to participate in European open calls, thus not utilising fully the financial potential of European programmes and deepening international cooperation."
Through mentoring, Lucie would especially like to help young scientists with their career paths, for example, by getting involved in international projects in the EU Framework Programme. "I would like to ensure that young people, who are considering a scientific career or even already have research experience, are not afraid of challenges and take advantage of all available opportunities at national and international levels. I believe that, thanks to the young generation, the Czech Republic can fully exploit its potential in the field of research, development and innovation and become one of the most successful countries in Europe."
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LUKÁŠ FERKL
Area: Energetics, environmental management, consulting
Employer: EnviTrail (founder); former: CTU UCEEB, Feramat Energies (founder)
What can I help my mentee with?
- Career development, searching for profession directions
- Academic track development
- Management skills, team leadership
- Mentoring in the energetics and environmental fields
- LinkedIn profile
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My name is Lukáš Ferkl, my career path has taken me from managing the research institute at CTU UCEEB all the way to founding the firm EnviTrail, where I, as CTO, deal with ESG and the carbon footprint calculations for both small and big clients, such as ČSOB, PPF group or Škoda Auto. I have great experience with team leadership and complex projects management. I also require wide range of information on energetics, environmental issues and academic environment for my work.
To me, mentoring means completely open knowledge and experience sharing, but also listening and understanding your goals and challenges. Together we can explore the possibilities of your future career, work on developing your skills and create strategies for achieving your academical and professional goals. I approach mentoring with respect and openness, which means that your topics and questions will always come first. Whether you seek concrete advice on energetics and sustainability or general navigation in the academical world and team leadership, I am here to help you find your way.
Face to face meetings would preferably happen regularly every three to six weeks, depending on your convenience. I like to work with practical projects or „homework“, which can help you find out something about yourself, gain new skills or learn something. Aside from my professional life I spend my time with music, skiing, astronomy and evolutionary biology, which are areas that bring me not only joy but new perspectives to share with my mentees as well. I am excited to meet you and to start discovering where your path will take you.
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MAREK LANČ
Role: Head of Research and Testing
Area: Physical Chemistry
Employer: CCORE Technology GmbH
What can I help my mentee with?
- membrane processes
- medical device development
- presentation skills
- taking advantage of opportunities for international internships, conferences, etc.
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Marek was attracted to chemistry already in high school; he participated in the Chemistry Olympiads and summer camps where he met his future classmates and a community of like-minded people. He started his studies at UCT Prague where he gradually became interested in the practical application of chemistry and thus got into the field of membrane separations in physical chemistry. He focused on the topic of membranes throughout his bachelor's, master's and PhD work during which he also attended two research internships: one focused on the silicon-based thin films at FUJIFILM in the Netherlands and at the second at the Institute of Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR) in Calabria, Italy.
"So far, my whole career has followed the method: take on a challenge you like." Marek is currently working at CCORE Technology. CCORE's vision is to make life easier for people with respiratory problems through the development of a miniaturized and affordable system for removing CO2 from the bloodstream. In the initial phase of the project, based on close collaboration with the university, Marek was responsible for the development and modification of the membranes necessary for the device. Based on the interpretation of technical data from external partners, he contributed to the redesign of the project goal and the decision to significantly strengthen the internal technical team. Currently, the company has approximately 15 employees and is developing a complete system consisting of an extracorporeal circulation (membrane module, centrifugal pump, etc..), a control console and software. Marek is responsible for research and testing. He defines what needs to be developed from a clinical-chemical point of view and provides input from a biochemical and chemical-engineering point of view. He plans and leads internal testing, including in-vivo large animal testing, and provides feedback to the engineering team. In collaboration with the "regulatory" team, he is co-responsible for the verification and validation process. In addition, he performs literature, patent and market analysis to identify new directions for development.
During his studies, Marek has been involved in many popularization projects and was the chairman of the student part of the Academic Senate. "In the senate I learned not to insist on having everything my way at all costs, but rather to delegate work to people I trust. Of course, it also puts you in situations where you have to make decisions about things you don't understand and take responsibility when you need to." Marek sees mentoring as an opportunity to be in touch with students and pass on what he has learned outside of his field of study that they can use in the future.
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MAREK ŠOLTYS
Role: project manager; dříve: project lead scientist - formulation
Area: pharmaceutical industry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- Presentation skills and effective communication
- Orientation in the corporate environment and finding a position
- Insight into the functioning of the pharmaceutical industry
- Scientific positions in the pharmaceutical industry
- CV writing, writing publications, moving abroad for work
- Communication with corporate and academic management at all levels
- Leadership and (de)motivation
- Horizontal leadership of people and teams (project work)
- Structured project management
- Resolving crises and highlighting the team's achievements
- Risk and opportunity analysis and risk/opportunity management
- Decision Making (not only in projects)
- How to "sell" your innovative ideas to conservative management
LinkedIn profil
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Marek graduated in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague and decided to pursue a doctoral degree at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Chobotix laboratory. He was involved in the development of porous silica micro and nanoparticles that can be used as carriers of active substances in pharmacy. All of his scientific work within the framework of his doctorate was partly carried out under the company Zentiva, which allowed Marek to understand the functioning of a large company and learn what is expected of a person in certain positions, what such a person could be responsible for, etc. Throughout his studies at UCT, Marek had numerous extracurricular activities – he was a student senator and an active member of K3S.
During the fourth year of his Ph.D. studies, Marek began to actively look for a job abroad. Since he was quite picky, as he himself says, it took him 10 months to find a suitable position. In the end, he chose the position of formulator in development at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz, which previously belonged to Novartis but became independent at the end of 2023. Specifically, he joined the development centre in Kundl, Austria, which is less than a 5-hour drive from Prague. "Development in pharmaceuticals works a little differently than in academia, because you have quite strict deadlines – you're pressed by a certain date when a patent is released, and if you're not on the market with a drug at that moment, you lose your position."
As a formulator, Marek worked on documentation, designed and conducted experiments, evaluated data and dealt with risk analysis. In May 2022, he moved to a new position in project management within the development department, where he is in charge of coordinating all people involved in the development project, and where he has been working until now. He is responsible for adhering to the project schedule and financial schedule, resolving crises and negotiating with Sandoz's senior management. "My experience from the UCT Senate helps me a lot in negotiations. It's beneficial to be able to guess what someone is really thinking or what they really need to hear." In recent months, Marek has also been involved in projects aimed at improving internal processes within Sandoz and has been using his experience in communicating with colleagues from many branches of the company in different countries. Since Marek's working life largely takes place online, he can pass on his experience on how to collaborate effectively in an online environment, conduct meetings, build full-fledged working relationships and how to set up a good home-office regime. Marek joined mentoring because he wants to pass on his experience that could be a great help to someone.
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MARTIN HRUŠKA
Role: HDW Department Manager; former: PSG Line manager, FE Line manager, FE Process Engineer
Area: Chemical Engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
What can I help my mentee with?
- advice on how to combine work and school and not go crazy
- how to handle the fact that you're working in a different field from the one you graduated from
- insight into the workings of a large company
LinkedIn profil
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Martin studied chemistry at the Secondary Industrial School in Pardubice, from which he went on to the University of Chemical Technology, majoring in Biochemistry. Right at the beginning of his studies at the university, he found a job as a laboratory technician at Coca-Cola, where he worked shifts - morning, night and twelve hours at a stretch. As he says, sometimes it was quite complicated for him to combine work with time-consuming school, compulsory labs and homework. For Martin, however, it was the only way to cover the costs of living in the capital.
Thanks to his Erasmus experience in Norway, he realised that working as a lab technician was not entirely fulfilling and decided to try something new when he returned. He successfully passed the selection process for an internship position at Procter & Gamble. He was given the task of devising and optimising a process for the reuse of reblend (a waste mixture in the production of a product) and wanted to continue his work once the project was completed. As he was not yet able to start full-time work due to his studies, the company invented a new type of position for him, which still exists today - a traineeship. "Working here has always been a long way from getting any clear progression. My assignment was - they're bottling here, the line generates X tons of waste a year, and I need it to be half that. Here's your phone, here's your computer, here's the people on the line and get it done."
After graduating, Martin started working full-time at the company and after years of combining work and school, he was relatively relieved. He stayed with project work for a while, tried more technological positions, and then had the itch to move closer to management. He was put in charge of the margarine production line and was responsible for about 22 workers, and after two years he moved on to manage the team responsible for the production of washing powders. Now Martin is in a senior management position and is responsible for the production of Jar for the whole of Europe and a team of about 55 people.
"I started studying chemistry when I was 15 years old, finished after 9 years of study and found I was doing a job that, although I work in a chemistry company, is not about chemistry and is as far away from it as it can be." Despite this, Martin says he is very happy to have graduated from UCT. The school as a whole prepared him well for finding complex solutions to problems that arise in his work. Moreover, he says that the school has always been helpful and he would like to repay it through mentoring.
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MARTIN PULTAR
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical technology
Employer: Draslovka; former: Spolana, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, UCT Prague
What can I help my mentee with?
- provide insight into different work environments - academic vs. private
- provide insight into the workings of the chemical industry
- outline what a technologist's job looks like
- finding creative solutions
- time-management
LinkedIn profil
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Shortly after graduating from high school, Martin found a summer job in a laboratory that focused on the analysis of water of various origins, giving him a taste of the laboratory trade before he started at the University of Technology. He completed his Master's degree in Inorganic Technology and since he enjoyed the field, he decided to do his PhD there as well. He first combined his studies with work at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked on magnetron sputtering, and thus gained insight into a completely different field from the position of a development engineer. Although it was an interesting and enriching experience for him, Martin wanted to focus more on the field of chemical technology and got a job as a sulphuric acid technologist at Spolana. Here, in addition to his full-time job, he completed his doctoral thesis and then successfully defended his PhD. In the final phase of the "dissertation marathon" he still greatly appreciates the support and understanding also from his then supervisors and colleagues.
After three years at Spolana, Martin received an offer from Draslovka, where he now works as a technologist in the production of alkali metal cyanides. In the future, he would like to be involved in internal research and development activities in the field of chemical technology. "The position of a technologist can differ in certain details in each company. But in general, the main element is the same. In addition to routine monitoring of process parameters, product quality and raw material and energy consumption, situations occur almost daily on production sites that require a detective-like approach to unravel and find the causes."
As part of the mentoring, Martin would like to learn what interests and motivates students today to study chemistry. At the same time, he would like to help someone by sharing his experiences from different stages of his studies and from quite different working environments.
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MARTIN SCHÄTZ
Role: Assistant Professor, EU Open Science Coordinator
Area: Biological and Medical Image Analysis, Informatics, Data Analysis
Employer: UCT Prague, Faculty of Science at Charles University, National Library of Technology
What can I help my mentee with?
- have an overview of what one is dealing with and how to get it all done
- find direction
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Martin came to his current job through photography and graphic design. He was interested in how images are created, what happens in the background of them and how it is possible that we can manipulate them on the computer. He studied computer science at UCT Prague, and nowadays he works with signal and image processing mainly in the medical field. For example, he is currently developing software for hospitals to evaluate CT data to estimate the percentage of lungs affected by coronavirus. He is also working at the open access microscopy department of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University and at the National Library of Technology where he is helping to introduce Open Science in Czech science. Through his position there and in his teaching activities at UCT Prague, he is able to continuously learn new trends in data management and pass them on.
After joining the university, Martin felt he was missing a lot of things here, so he started getting involved where he could to help get things moving. He worked his way up to the position of Student President of the Academic Senate and several student associations. "I got used to having an outlet, and also all the extra activities gave me a place to find out what I enjoy and what I'm good at. At some point you get to a point where you do a lot and enjoy it and you would like to start getting some money for it. Then you have to force yourself to figure out what makes you different from other people and who could pay you for those skills." As a mentor, Martin would like to help students learn to have a perspective on the field they are involved in. He can advise on what areas outside of the curriculum to focus on. In addition, he himself lacked a similar program while studying at UCT Prague.
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MARTIN SKALA
Role: Business Development Manager, Project Manager
Area: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry
Employer: NUM Solution; former: Metoil
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- contact with industry, application of knowledge from school in practice
- chemical engineering and its applications
- collaboration on case studies
- putting research results into practice
- consulting in industrial chemistry
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During his undergraduate studies in the general chemistry programme at UCT, Martin decided to direct his career into the application rather than the scientific sphere, although research and development remained his primary focus. During his studies, he participated in projects for industrial companies, which was the subject of both of his final theses defended at UCT. After completing his Master's degree and an internship in Ecuador, he joined the Research Centre Řež as an R&D worker, and he was engaged in scientific research support for conventional and nuclear power plants in the field of chemistry in the form of grant and commercial projects. After 6 years he moved from the research sphere to the implementation team where he was attracted by the potential commercialization of scientific results and their application in practice.
In his current position at NUM Solution, he is responsible for business development and project management in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. This position involves coordinating the entire project lifecycle, from finding technology challenges and potential clients, to designing solutions and communicating practical requirements to the programmers handling mathematical simulations, and finally to the finished product and interpreting the results back to the client. In his position, Martin works closely with the management team to help the strategic development of the company in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. He is responsible for both short-term consulting assignments and long-term projects based on close collaboration with the client's team.
By joining the mentoring program, Martin would like to keep in touch with the university as an institution and its students, who he sees as having great potential. He sees the opportunity to collaborate as a way to give something back to a place that has given him so much in return. "I would also like to support my mentee in what I lacked at uni- contact with industry and seeing the possibilities of research applications. To get away from what the academia sets for you as goals, and what their hierarchy of values are. I saw teaching as a bit of a form of competition, but it's not always about the same things as in real life."
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MARTIN STREJC
Role: Researcher
Area: Physical Chemistry with a focus on nuclear research
Employer: ÚJV Řež, a. s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight and transfer of experience from scientific research to practice
- gain contacts in the field
- prepare for the selection procedure from the perspective of both the candidate and the employer (in the Czech Republic and abroad)
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After his studies at UCT Prague with a focus on physical chemistry, Martin joined ÚJV Řež, a. s., where he works as a scientific researcher and leads assigned projects. He either chooses the focus of the project himself or, in the case of commercial orders, implements them according to the client's wishes. He is in charge of solving the assignment itself, as well as the administration related to it, or managing other team members. He also looks for new scientific challenges and opportunities for collaboration. The projects, which last between 3 and 4 years, are carried out nationally and internationally.
Even his free time is partly connected with chemistry, as he cooperates with the Communication Department of the UCT Prague to popularize science and promote the university's activities, for example, he participates in the organization of the Gaudeamus Fair.
Through his role as a mentor, he wants to give students an insight into the work in the field and provide them with quality and relevant practical experience or contacts. In general, he sees it as important to support students on their journey and increase their competitiveness in the Czech Republic and abroad. He says: "Today's students and graduates have a great advantage in having free access to the labour market in all EU countries. I would like to help them make the most of this benefit."
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MATĚJ ŠIMEK
Role: Senior researcher
Area: analytical chemistry, biotechnology
Employer: Contipro a.s.
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentoring language: czech, english
What can I help my mentee with?
- career guidance
- how to prepare for an interview
- choosing a job in another city
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Matěj chose to study Biotechnology at the University of Science and Technology. However, over time he discovered that he was most interested in numbers in chemistry and that he needed "hard data" to best understand the connections. Therefore, while still an undergraduate, he switched to the Production and Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals and eventually landed on Analytical Chemistry, in which he says he finally found himself.
After completing his Master's degree, he suspected that the role of an analyst, who has a clearly defined task for which he seeks a solution in a relatively short time frame, would suit him best in his working life. However, he decided to take up a one-year trainee programme at Contipro, where he tried out a number of roles in research and development. The first project he was put in charge of was the development of vaginal suppositories, and through his work on this project he found that a more creative role, where he had to think strategically and plan the various stages of development well in advance, suited him. After completing the trainee programme, he focused on pharmacokinetics - testing drug forms and medical devices in in vitro and in vivo models. This work combines testing with advanced methods of analytical chemistry and mathematical modelling. For Matej, this is an ideal combination of more creative development and working with data.
After two years in the workforce, Matěj decided to start his PhD studies. He was attracted by the possibility of later using his degree in senior positions and the opportunity to do his PhD in a dynamic company environment. It also gave him an insight into the way of working in other workplaces - he completed his Ph.D. studies at Palacký University in Olomouc and went on an internship in Vienna. In addition to new knowledge and a degree, the three and a half year study brought him, thanks to good networking in the academic environment, further cooperation and new contacts.
Matěj now works at Contipro as a group leader in the pharmacokinetics group. "I practically don't wear a lab coat anymore. In addition to evaluating and planning pharmacokinetic experiments and developing new analytical methods, I am leading a long-term research direction to elucidate how orally administered hyaluronan can act in the body to save our joints. This is a multidisciplinary topic that is a challenge not only for analysts, but also biologists and other specialties." So Matthew's new job is learning how to assign tasks within the team appropriate to each person's interests and skills. He sees mentoring as an opportunity to network and collaborate with people who are genuinely interested in science and development.
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MICHAELA CHRASTNÁ
Role: R&D Project Manager, Facility Manager, Construction Manager, External Relations Manager, HR Work Process Leader, Process Engineer
Area: Project Management, HR, Construction
Employer: Lego; former: Procter & Gamble, Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- have courage to deviate from the field of study
- create a plan to balance your personal and professional life
- find peace within yourself (you don't have to make all your decisions straight out of school)
- how to lead a team and care for people
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Michaela was an active member of the IAESTE association during her studies at UCT Prague, and she was the main coordinator of the iKariéra fair and even became the head of the local centre. This experience shaped her to a large extent, and Michaela realised that she wanted to pursue a technical-industrial path after finishing university. Therefore, she accepted an internship at Procter & Gamble, where she ended up working for 11 years. She started as a process engineer in production, and she was in charge of packaging lines. After a while, she was offered the opportunity to move within the company to the position of press spokesperson to which she later on added a part of the HR agenda.
After maternity leave, she returned to the company as a project manager, where instead of managing production lines, her job was to build them. Several international projects passed through her hands, including the installation of a production line in Saudi Arabia, but as a woman she never obtained a visa and managed the entire project remotely. During her second maternity leave, when she lived partly in Slovakia as part of a split family, Michaela worked part-time and managed a large construction project to remove a hill behind the factory in Rakovník and build a new entrance to the factory.
The successful approval of the new entrance was the symbolic icing on the cake of a long career, and Michaela subsequently moved from a project position to an operational position at Zentiva, where she worked as a Facility Manager, to which she eventually added the position of Head of Metrology, Qualification and Validation. After two years, she felt it was time for a change: "I know about myself that I am not a 'run-the-business' but a 'change-the-business' person. I've always more or less worked with the long-term horizon. I wondered what was going to happen in three years, five years. I wasn't a person who was extremely long on the day-to-day operations, the day-to-day management." At this point, Michaela joined Lego as a technical project manager in the R&D department.
"I've been in a position where I've recruited people a few times, and I've always looked for something to set them apart. The university provides an excellent education, but it's just some basics. You need to develop, and I think the pressure is getting greater and is definitely greater now than it was during my student years." For example, Michaela attributes her activity in the student organization to the fact that she has learned to take care of people and motivate them to do a good job. In positions of leadership, and often in all-male teams, she has always relied on humility, trying to take good care of her colleagues and listening to them. She would advise students not to be afraid to leave what they majored in and go into another field. For her, the desire to pass on gained knowledge is natural: "You want to leave something behind, and I find that investing in people is the most beneficial."
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MICHAELA GAJDOŠOVÁ
Role: Formulation manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Zentiva
What can I help my mentee with?
- gain insight into the workings of pharmaceutical development
- learn what to expect from different positions in the generic pharmaceutical industry (development, manufacturing)
- personal development, communication and working with people
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Michaela has enjoyed research work since the beginning of her studies at UCT Prague. During her Master's degree, she was put in charge of several younger students as their supervisor. As part of her PhD studies, she collaborated with the pharmaceutical company Zentiva, where she was also offered a position within the formulation development department, which Michaela accepted. To get a position here, you need a PhD: "The job is very specific. I think it's about proving by successfully completing a PhD that you have the ability to lead projects and work independently, which is what is needed here." The work of formulation scientists takes a drug form from start to finish - it involves the design and optimization of the drug formulation, the performance of the product, the design of the manufacturing process itself and, if successful in clinical trials, the submission of the drug for marketing approval.
After two and a half years as a formulation scientist, Michaela has been promoted to a management position, and currently has responsibility for the projects of her three fellow formulators in addition to her own. She also helps them with personal development and management skills development, an area she enjoys. "I really honestly believe that it makes sense to talk to students about opportunities and experiences, because if you direct yourself early, you can have a nice career and be content in life. If I could help someone in this way, I would be very happy."
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MICHAL CHMIEL
Role: HR Director
Area: Human resources
Employer: ORLEN Unipetrol; former: Orange Polska, Telekomuniacja Polska
What can I help my mentee with?
- overall soft-skills development
- show what life after studies looks like
- advise on what to do while studying to make the person interesting for the employer
- show what it means to manage people
LinkedIn profil
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Despite the fact that Michal is an IT graduate from Warsaw University of Technology, he has been working in HR all his life. His first job after graduation was supposed to be a data analyst for the HR department of a telecommunications company, but within a very short time he took over more and more of the HR manager's agenda. During a career of about 14 years in telecom companies, he worked his way up to a director position.
He has now been HR Director at ORLEN Unipetrol for 9 years, with about 5000 people under his management from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Germany. His responsibility is to take care of the overall HR agenda - from recruitment to departure of employees, payroll and accountability to external institutions such as tax office, social and health insurance etc.
Despite his successful career in HR, Michal does not forget his passion for IT. "I still miss this field, maybe I will return to it one day. I admire students of technical universities because I know how demanding studying there is. I respect all those who complete their studies at technical universities."
As part of his mentoring, he would like to give his mentees an outline of what life outside of school is like. "I think the end of studies means mainly that you start to look after yourself. Everything starts to become more complicated and life may not look as beautiful as the student years." He is happy to share his experiences, show that you can work your way up from a low position to the top and support his mentee in making decisions about his future.
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MICHAL JEREMIÁŠ
Role: Head of Department
Area: Plasma Physics
Employer: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics
What can I help my mentee with?
- writing grant applications
- management skills
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Michal came to work for the Academy of Sciences somewhat by accident when, after a study trip to Spain and the loss of all his computer data, he began a hasty search for a topic to cover in his undergraduate thesis. The opportunity presented itself at the Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Chemical Processes, with which he had worked on various projects throughout his studies up to his PhD studies. He completed his PostDoc at Cranfield University in the UK and, on his return to the Czech Republic, was offered a position as Head of Department at the Institute of Plasma Physics. He is now in his fifth year there. He is responsible for the running of the entire department, which consists of ten colleagues. In addition to his managerial work, he writes grant applications, searches for new topics to work on or institutions and potential partners for collaboration.
He sees great potential in mentoring and working with students. “I would like to show students the reality outside of university. So that they learn how to function in the real world while studying, because this can give them suggestions on what to focus on more specifically in university." He says internships and industry experience make it easier for students to navigate the job market and life. He recommends "not clinging to ideas, but going out to meet different opportunities".
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MILAN BITTNER
Role: Malthouse manager, technologist, brewer
Area: Brewing
Employer: Plzeňský Prazdroj; former: Pivovary Lokbowicz, Pivovar Kácov
What can I help my mentee with?
- self-development ( personal vision, growth mindset, habit building)
- leadership
- lean six sigma projects
- malting, brewing, food production - systems
LinkedIn profil
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Milan completed his studies at the Institute of Fermentation Chemistry and Bioengineering (now the Institute of Biotechnology) under the guidance of Prof. Brányik. During his PhD studies, during which he focused on the topic of microbial anaerobic contaminants in beer, Milan had many activities beyond his scientific work. He rose to the position of vice-president in the Academic Senate, and during his tenure he and a group of friends were instrumental in reviving the tradition of Kachekran as we know it today. "We were always in it for the fun. While running for senate, we put up banners around the school with pictures of people we needed to run for senate to get support for Kachekran." He also took it upon himself to nurture the lab's team spirit in addition to his scientific work. These activities fundamentally shaped him, and through them he learned how to work with people, which he always enjoyed. "I always wanted to make the people around me happy, and I liked to make things fun for them. You can take a positive approach to managing people, you don't just have to be a tough boss, but asking colleagues what they need and getting to know them personally and understanding their motivation - that's my vision."
After completing his PhD in 2015, Milan joined the Pivovary Lobkowicz Group as a technologist, which at the time had seven breweries operating under it. During his three years there, Milan worked on various technological topics in all seven breweries, gaining a lot of experience and insight into beer production. This was followed by a short experience as a brewer at Pivovar Kácov, during which he was offered the position of malthouse manager at Plzeňský Prazdroj, where he has been working for almost 4 years now. Milan manages a team of eighteen people, but overall he is responsible for the coordination of about 45 people from the technologists to the maintenance and sanitation staff. The malting plant produces 88,000 tonnes of malt a year, which is enough for about five and a half million hectolitres of beer, roughly a quarter of the Czech beer production. Milan is responsible for ensuring the quality of production, running the operation and managing the people.
"I'm learning to be more of a leader than a manager, I try to be in contact with my people on a daily basis so I know what they are doing. We also try to brainstorm together to find out what makes the team tick and what motivates them to build a team vision." Milan engages in mentoring with the motivation to push himself further and grow. He also mentions that he has two important mentors in his life who have helped him - Prof. Brányik - director of VUPS and former production director from Pivovary Lobkowicz, Ing., Jiří Famera.
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ONDŘEJ ZBYTEK
Role: CEO & startup founder, innovator, electrical engineer
Area: Tech Startups, Fundraising, Smart Indoor Gardening, Smart Cities, Particle Physics, Education
Emlpoyer: Plantee, Nuledo
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to turn technology and ideas into a viable business
- how to validate a business plan
- how to start a company and how to find an investor for a startup
- how to lead a company in the first few months
- which technologies to cultivate for your product and which to abandon
- rapid prototyping
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Ondra graduated from FEL CTU, but already during high school he started his first big project, the development and production of Czech-made cloud chambers, unique devices for observing radioactivity. At the age of 20, he built his device for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, becoming the youngest business partner of the institution. His startup Nuledo has delivered its equipment to more than 10 institutions across Europe, including the Cosmocaixa science museum in Barcelona and the Institute of Physics of the CAS. The latest order in particle physics was the delivery of the world's largest cloud chamber to Luxembourg in 2020. Then it was time for Ondrej to move on.
Ondřej has been an avid plant grower since childhood and has always been attracted to experimenting with more challenging species. He used his growing experience and knowledge from the development of cloud chambers and started craving a smart home greenhouse. He found no solution on the current market that could meet all his requirements. Therefore he founded Plantee Innovations, a startup that develops and manufactures the unique Plantee indoor greenhouse for growing plants at home. "I knew I wasn't the only one interested in such a product. Since I have a lot of experience in developing a hardware product riddled with sensors and other technologies, I immediately thought I could develop a smart home greenhouse myself and offer it to everyone in the world," he explains how he got from particle physics to growing plants.
The Plantee device combines many disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology and electrical engineering. Ondra Zbytek is thus the archetype of an universal entrepreneur who has to navigate among many fields–not only technical ones. In 2021, he and his company launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, where he raised almost two and a half million Czech crowns for his indoor greenhouse. In addition to his entrepreneurial achievements, in 2018 he was awarded Her Majesty’s Ambassador Nick Archer's Young Person of the Year Award and was granted the associated Eva Jiřičná Award.
Ondra would like to offer his knowledge of bootstrapping a startup and attracting an investor to the students of VŠCHT as part of his mentoring. He says that "the world of innovation and startups is completely different from the university or from employment. Information and contacts are hard to come by and if you have never run a business or sought funding for your project, it is terribly easy to get confused and lose months or years of time."
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TOMÁŠ PETREK
Role: Executive Director
Area: Marketing
Employer: GoBigname; former: Mettler Toledo GmbH
What can I help my mentee with?
- create your own career strategy
- project management
- using your time during your studies to be as satisfied as possible with your career path
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During enrolment day at UCT Prague, Tomáš was interested in the presentation of the IAESTE association, which he decided to join on his first day. He sees the experience he gained in the association as crucial for his future career direction. It gave him the chance to try working on projects, marketing and negotiating with companies. He worked his way up to the leadership of the local centre and to the position of coordinator of the job fair iKariéra, the biggest event at the school at the time, with six months of preparation, which was a turning point for him. After graduating from UCT, Tomáš tried different jobs to see if his path would lead him to materials chemistry and engineering or rather to management, which he was close to thanks to his activity in IAESTE.
An important experience for him was a product-marketing position in Zurich in Mettler Toledo, a multinational company producing laboratory equipment. Within this position he used the knowledge he gained in UCT, but at the same time this experience led him further down the management path. He currently works as the managing director of the branding studio GoBigname. They help companies create visual identities and names, their goal is to help local companies gain success in the global marketplace. So even though he eventually left the field of chemistry, he says that what he took away from UCT, is an invaluable ability to think analytically that he uses every day at work.
For several years now, Tomáš has been devoting his free time to imparting experience and developing students by organising workshops and lecturing at university conferences. His mission is to help people find what they enjoy and learn how to use it. "We live in a world where we spend 70% of our time at work. I want to meet as many people as possible who have found themselves doing something they really want to do."
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VÁCLAV BYSTRIANSKÝ
Role: Project Manager, Researcher
Area: Energetics and Hydrogen Technologies
Employer: Horizon Educational; former: ORLEN UniCRE, Czech National Bank
What can I help my mentee with?
- Hydrogen production and utilization
- the pitfalls of modern and conventional energy
- storytelling and effective data presentation
- how to discover and use your strengths
- how to overcome fear and manage stress
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Václav's first career experience was working for a big event company, which he got thanks to a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert he attended. It was a crucial experience for him - he learned that one can organize the work of a team to almost perfection and that he was comfortable seeing results immediately after the work was done. Václav studied Environmental Chemistry and Fuels Technology, and he has been interested in energetics since he was a kid. During his studies he went to study in Sweden within the Erasmus Program. "There I realised how great it is to work in a team where everyone has a role. I realised that everyone didn't have to know everything, but it is important to bring people with different skills together in a way that complements each other synergistically. What I learned about myself was that I didn't have to be the smartest person in the group, but I was able to get things across to others in a way that was understandable, so I ended up presenting most of the projects we worked on."
As part of his master's thesis, he worked with CV Řež and the company ČEZ, and eventually, by chance, got a job as a material engineer in the Czech National Bank. During his studies, he was involved in popularising chemistry, and after graduation, he also worked in this field professionally. He became the coordinator of the educational programme at Horizon Educational for the Czech Republic. As part of the programme, teams of high school students build their own hydrogen-powered cars, which they then race against each other. "I am a teacher, then a manager and sometimes a business developer when we are looking for new partners to work with. But most of all, the teacher role fulfills me. It's great to see younger students enjoying the race. However the fun doesn't come for free: first you have to put something together, it usually doesn't work, so you have to keep working on it and stay focused. As a result, you drive a car, and you completely miss the fact that you actually learned basic electrical engineering, programming or 3D printing within the process." The project started in the Czech Republic and the USA, and thanks to Václav, the idea was spread to 13 countries around the world in four years with the help of about 500 teams and 3,000 students. Václav's role was, among other things, to travel abroad and pass on the know-how to local teams and help them get the project off the ground.
Another important professional experience is his two years at ORLEN UniCRE as a project manager for hydrogen technology development. His role here was basically the same - to be the initiator and driving force for a completely new sector. "I was a bit of a manager and a bit of a researcher, going between the stacks in my uniform and then back to management meetings. I learned a lot, my head was totally occupied because I had to think about problems in detail and that was great."
He wants to become a mentor because he enjoys working with people and sees it as an opportunity to learn from each other.
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VIKTOR JANOUŠKOVEC
Role: Director
Area: Distribution, Chemical Industry
Employer: Brenntag; former: Lach-Ner s.r.o., Tesla Hloubětín, Synthesia, a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight into the operation of a chemical business
- detailed insight into the complex process of chemical distribution, including different positions
- insight into the functioning of a multinational corporation
- insight into different career opportunities
- networking
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Viktor started as a salesman in an analytical laboratory, where his day consisted of calling customers according to a list and soliciting orders. Gradually he worked his way up to director in the company. After eight years, he decided it was time for a change and went to Tesla Hloubětín, where he managed an independent water treatment plant for a year. He then moved out of the industry - for three years he worked for a company producing containers - but eventually returned to chemistry. He realised that he wanted to stay with it: "One has such a tendency to denigrate what you learn at school. Often you don't remember a lot of things anymore, but it's there somewhere in the back of your mind, the context. You know the environment, you keep meeting the people you know from uni and somehow it all fits together." He worked his way up through a position as a distributor of laboratory chemicals to Synthesia, where he was plant manager, and finally to Brenntag, where he is still managing director today.
He doesn't see anything wrong with changing jobs. One should not be afraid of change; if something does not suit one's current position or company, one should explore other possibilities and with them one's potential. On the other hand, he points out that it is good to be able to describe the reason for these changes and turn them to your advantage.
He feels content in his current position because every day brings new challenges and knowledge. He describes himself as "not a big scientist" and doesn't want to know every detail of a single area. On the contrary, he is comfortable with having an overview of multiple things horizontally and being able to connect them. For him, chemistry, technology and business meet at Brenntag. In addition, he handles personal and administrative matters in the company.
He sees potential in mentoring to further promote chemistry, even among people who are already studying it. "Students should know that chemistry is not just lab work and scientific activity. It is also business or manufacturing, in short, it can be applied in all areas of human activity." Viktor is a member of the board of the Chemical Industry Association and vice-president of the Chemical Traders' Association and sees the promotion of chemistry as a commitment as well. He is happy to support people with a genuine interest and in return learn about the current generation of students and young employees - what their priorities and expectations are, which he sees as important incentives for further development of the industry and jobs.
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YANNIS VASILOPOULOS
Role: Digital Workflow Engineer
Area: Data science, Edge Computing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
Employer: Siemens, UCT Prague
Language: English only
What can I help my mentee with?
- chemical engineering (pharmaceuticals, transport phenomena, simulations)
- software engineering
- get an insight into the corporate world
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Yannis comes from Greece, where he obtained a bachelor degree in Physics and a masters degree in Chemical Engineering; during his master studies he was participating in a research program, mostly dealing with fluids and mass transfer simulations. After finishing his studies, he became a private tutor for teaching math and physics and spent a year working as a research assistant in the National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens. He participated in a project dealing with the simulation of blood and nanoparticles flow in “digital twin” arteries. Back then, Yannis saw himself in academia so he pursued his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at UCT Prague. His work concerned the modelling of unit operations in the pharmaceutical industry, and collaborated with several researchers from academia and industry, such as the Academy of Sciences, and Zentiva.
During his free time he had been learning more about programming, data science and machine learning and realized that he would like to explore other opportunities outside academia. At the moment Yannis is employed by Siemens as a Digital Workflow Engineer. He is mostly working on Industrial Edge, the Siemens Edge Computing Platform, as well as on web applications development. The topic of industrial edge computing is at the forefront of Industry 4.0, and Yannis’ job deals with the process of leveraging data from production machines, tools, processes and plants and creating insights for optimized processes, products, and improved maintenance.
Why does Yannis want to become a mentor? During his academic path, he felt many times lost. He thinks that if you are a Ph.D. student or a researcher in academia and you don’t collaborate with any company outside, you probably isolate yourself from the knowledge instead of expanding. “Because there might be solutions out there that people in academia don’t know about or the other way around. This picture, I think the broad picture, was unclear to me, and so was the career path.” He would like to help someone, with his knowledge and experience, that he has gained.
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ZUZANA POLÁKOVÁ
Role: Head of the Strategic Department
Area: Education, Public Sector
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
What can I help my mentee with?
- strategic planning
- creating conceptual documents
- formulating problems and finding solutions
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Zuzana studied social and cultural anthropology, which gave her a certain world view and way of thinking about society and otherness within it. Already during her studies she was involved in several applied projects, for example, she participated in field research on the topic of perceptions of safety in excluded localities. She has learned to see difference as an asset and an opportunity to enrich whatever work one does. After her studies, she went to Peru for a few months and upon her return she joined an event company that organizes large scientific and medical congresses. After two years, she continued her further studies in public and social policy and joined the Strategic Department of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, where she became head of the department three years later.
She is now in charge of a team of 11 people. The department's most important responsibility is formulating strategic and development priorities for the higher education sector. In cooperation with universities, they use methodological, legislative and financial tools to implement these priorities for higher education in the future so that all universities are included in them. For example, a strategic plan or various development programmes can be mentioned as specific tools.
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Valuable experience during your studies
The mentoring programme allows you to gain insight into the environment of companies and institutions or discover what a career in science entails already during your studies.
This is an effective method of learning and development that can greatly help you clarify your career direction and set long-term goals. In addition to gaining valuable experience and contacts, a mentor can help you tackle various academic and personal challenges and obstacles.
Working with a mentor is flexible in terms of time, the scope and format of the meeting depends on your individual agreement.
The capacity of the programme is limited! Do not hesitate to sign up!
Schedule
- Sign up for the programme.
- After signing up, you will participate in a group preparatory workshop where you will clarify your direction and goals for communicating with your mentor. That way, you can then choose the one that will be most beneficial to you.
- You can choose a mentor from those on offer or come to the coordinator with your own proposal. It may happen that several students are interested in one mentor. That's why the final pairing is done through a competition system - after the initial workshop you will have the space to film a short video message(we will discuss tips and tricks during the workshop), and then it will be up to the mentors to decide who they want to work with. If your cooperation does not work, we will try to find you a full replacement.
- Subsequently, 3-4 months of meetings take place. The frequency and content depend purely on the individual agreement between mentor and mentee. We recommend seeing each other at least twice a month. In addition to interviews and meetings, you can visit the mentor in their workplace, observe them at work or get involved in a specific project.
- The programme is concluded with feedback collection and joint networking.
If you have any questions, please contact Tereza Picková, the programme coordinator.
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If you have any questions, please contact Tereza Picková, the programme coordinator.
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The role of the mentor grants you an opportunity to learn how to pass your expertize on less experienced ambitious students and young scientists.
You will have a chance to learn from your mentee as well.
Mentoring is designed to be as flexible as possible; the frequency, dates and form of meetings is up to you and your mentee.
You will get an opportunity to meet with like-minded people from various professions on a networking event.
If you are interested, please contact Tereza Picková, the project coordinator:
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Mentoring helps you with your career and personal development
The mentoring programme offers you the opportunity to create an informal relationship with a more experienced practitioner and take a step further on your journey. The cooperation is long-term, has no fixed structure and each mentored student, graduate or employee determines the basic objectives according to his/her individual needs. This can be in the areas of studies, career, and personal life.
There are two mentoring programmes at UCT Prague:
Who is a mentor?
A mentor is someone who has experience in the field and passes it on to their mentee. Ideally, they should be based at an institution other than the one at which the mentee is studying or working. It is often advisable to find an expert in a field that the mentee does not understand so well. This will open up a unique opportunity for them to gain a better understanding of a related field or another issue that might be useful to them - for example, the business side of a scientific project.
Spring cycle of the mentoring programme
The spring cycle will run from February to June 2024. You can sign up for the spring cycle of the mentoring programme from 5.2. to 15.2. Start by filling out the Forms under the link below:
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Our mentors
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Jan Sýkora
Role: Researcher at the University of Chemical Technology, founder and managing director of Pharmacan s.r.o.
Field of study: analytical chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, Pharmacan s.r.o., before: Czech Academy of Science
Language: Czech, English
Mentees: Students
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Michal H. Kolář
Role: Research Group Leader
Employer: Max Planck Society; Former: Jülich Research Center, IOCB Prague
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jiří Wald
Area: Molecular and Structural Biology
Employer: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, German Electron Synchrotron DESY
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online
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Veronika Šímová
Role: Sales team manager
Field: Finance
Employer: Self-employed businesswoman; former: Plzeňský Prazdroj
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Martin Schätz
Role: Assistant Professor, EU Open Science Coordinator
Area: Biological and Medical Image Analysis, Informatics, Data Analysis
Employer: UCT Prague, Faculty of Science at Charles University, National Library of Technology
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Adam Zicháček
Role: Service delivery manager fot Sandoz
Field: Synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals
Employer: Sandoz Former: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Novartis
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Pavel Řezanka
Role: Research Fellow, Head of Radioanalytical Methods Group
Employer: UCT Prague
Mentees: employees
Mentoring language: czech
Form: Personal meet up
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Olesja Lancevská
Role: project manager, lecturer of the Entrepreneurship Academy course, facilitator of the My First Million acceleration program,
Field: innovation, start-up, business model, personal development
Employer: Technological Innovation Centre Zlín
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Helena Staňková
Field: IT a data, Finance
Emplozer: Marketing BI former: Direct Fidoo, Saltpay
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Role: Technical sales representative for biomedical applications
Field: Ultrasonic and laser welding of plastic products
Employer: DUKANE IAS s.r.o.; former: National Instruments, Digiteq
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jaroslav Saller
Role: Internal Audit Manager
Field: Finance, Consulting, Audit
Employer: Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte Audit, Deloitte Advisory, Neox
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Lukáš Ferkl
Area: Energetics, environmental management, consulting
Employer: EnviTrail (founder); former: CTU UCEEB, Feramat Energies (founder)
Mentees: students
Form: Personal meet up
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Štěpán Hodač
Role: Managing diretor
Field: Food industry
Employer: Beavia
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Michaela Chrastná
Role: R&D Project Manager, Facility Manager, Construction Manager, External Relations Manager, HR Work Process Leader, Process Engineer
Field: Project Management, HR, Construction
Employer: Lego; former: Procter & Gamble, Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Kristýna Kantnerová
Role: PostDoc
Field: Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Employer: ETH Zürich
Mentoring language: czech, english
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Pavel Kukula
Role: executive director
Field: organic technology, catalyst production
Employer: RANIDO, former: Solvias, Süd-Chemie, Clariant
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Nikola Koretzová
Role: Scrum master, coach, consultant
Field: Project managment, biomedicine
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.; former: Agile Navigators; MEDICEM Institute s.r.o., PERFECT Clean CZ s.r.o.
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Edith Kutorglo
Role: PostDoc
Field: Functional nanomaterials, membrane chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, TU Berlin
Mentoring language: english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentees: students, employees
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Luděk Michal
Role: Sales and Technical Representative
Field: Materials, Chemical Industry
Employer: BASF; formerly: SILON
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Matěj Šimek
Role: Senior researcher
Field: Analytická chemie, biotechnologie
Employer: Contipro a.s.
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentoring language: czech, english
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Martin Skala
Role: Business Development Manager, Project Manager
Area: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry
Employer: NUM Solution; former: Metoil
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Marek Šoltys
Role: project manager; former: project lead scientist - formulation
Field: pharmaceutical industry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: Zentiva
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Aldar Tsybyktarov
Role: Manager
Field: Development, Construction, Data Analytics
Employer: NOVA ET VETERA, Honeywell
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english, russian
Form: Personal meet up
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Martin Strejc
Role: Researcher
Field: Physical Chemistry with a focus on nuclear research
Employer: ÚJV Řež, a. s.
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
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Jan Jelínek
Role: Business-Designer, Project Manager, Consultant
Area: Innovation Design, Marketing, Management & Leadership, Startups, Creative Industry
Employer: Q Designers, freelancer, Nerudný fest (founder)
Mentees: students, employees
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Viktor Janouškovec
Role: Director
Field: Distribution, Chemical Industry
Employer: Brenntag; former: Lach-Ner s.r.o., Tesla Hloubětín, Synthesia, a.s.
Mentees: students
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Michal Chmiel
Role: HR Director
Field: Human resources
Employer: ORLEN Unipetrol; former: Orange Polska, Telekomuniacja Polska
Mentees: students, employees
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Jana Kamanová
Role: Scientist, Head of laboratory of cell biology of infections
Field: microbiology, cell biology, interaction interakce patogen-host
Employer: Microbiological department, Academy of science Czech republic
Mentees: students
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Jan Froněk
Role: Academic coach
Field: Career and Personal Development
Emmployer: www.janfronek.cz, TEREZA Education Center
Mentees: students, employees
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Lubomír Kovařík,MSc.
Role: lecturer of educational activities in non-formal education
Field: education, soft skills development
Employer: Technologické inovační centrum, s.r.o.
Mentees: students, employees
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Role: CEO of the Technological Innovation Centre in Zlín
Field: Ph.D. - Business Process Management
Employer: TIC Zlín Former: Akademie Sting, CzechInvest, MŠMT
Language: czech and english
Mentees: students, employees
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Yannis Vasilopoulos
Role: Digital Workflow Engineer
Field: Data science, Edge Computing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
Employer: Siemens, UCT Prague
Mentees: students
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Thomas de Bruyne
Role: organizational psychologist, co-founder of BeInX
Field: psychology, VR and AR, leadership transformation, digital consulting
Employer: BeInX (co-founder) Former: Deloitte
Language: English, Dutch
Mentees: students
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Jitka Vallová
Role: Procurement Business Partner Confectionary CEE
Area: Purchasing, FMCG
Employer: Nestlé, Brenntag, Zentiva,
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
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David Škvařil
Role: People and Customer Care, Partnerships
Area: Finance
Employer: Fondee; former: Future Port, Air Ventures, BCG, MALL pay, Alza
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Martin Pultar
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical technology
Employer: Draslovka; former: Spolana, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, UCT Prague
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Ondřej Pánek
Role: Production Director; former: project engineer, launch leader, lean manager
Area: chemical engineerin
Employer: Procter&Gamble
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Milan Bittner
Role: Malthouse manager, technologist, brewer
Area: Brewing
Employer: Plzeňský Prazdroj; former: Pivovary Lokbowicz, Pivovar Kácov
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Andrea Marušáková
Role: senior tester
Area: IT
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.
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Ondřej Zbytek
Role: CEO & startup founder, innovator, electrical engineer
Area: Tech Startups, Fundraising, Smart Indoor Gardening, Smart Cities, Particle Physics, Education
Emlpoyer: Plantee, Nuledo
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Katrin Neubauerová
Role: Researcher
Area: Bioengineering
Employer: Bene Meat
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Kateřina Sladká
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: LB Minerals; former: ALS, Klokner Institute of CTU
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Lucie Nuñez
Role: Head of Department for the European Research Area
Area: Research and Development, European grants
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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Denisa Lizoňová
Role: PostDoc
Area: Chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
Employer: UCT Prague
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Marek Lanč
Role: Head of Research and Testing
Area: Physical Chemistry
Employer: CCORE Technology GmbH
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Vojtěch Kučera
Role: Material Specialist
Area: materials chemistry
Employer: ŠKODA AUTO a.s.
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Martin Hruška
Role: HDW Department Manager; former: PSG Line manager, FE Line manager, FE Process Engineer
Area: Chemical Engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
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Ivan Souček
Role: director
Area: chemical industry, economics and management
Employer: Union of Chemical Industry; former: Kaučuk Kralupy a.s., Unipetrol, Paramo Kolín a.s., Česká rafinérská a.s.
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Maja Kądzioła-Avberšek
Role: Regulatory Affairs Manager
Area: Pharmaceutical chemistry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: GSK, Wrigley (Mars)
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Anna Fučíková
Role: Associate Professor
Area: Nanomaterials, Biophysics, Chemical Physics
Employer: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, the Academy of Sciences
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Michaela Gajdošová
Role: Formulation manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Zentiva
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Michal Jeremiáš
Role: Head of Department
Area: Plasma Physics
Employer: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics
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Lenka Kadeřábková
Role: Director
Area: Education, Volunteering
Employer: INEX-SDA; former: Startup Jobs
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Tomáš Petrek
Role: Executive Director
Area: Marketing
Employer: GoBigname; former: Mettler Toledo GmbH
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Zuzana Poláková
Role: Head of the Strategic Department
Area: Education, Public Sector
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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Karel Zheng
Role: Manager, Founder
Area: Technology Startups, Finance
Employer: Accomango, BCG, KAYA (Enern), Twisto
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Why be a mentor?
Through mentoring, you will have the opportunity to realize your expertise and learn to pass it on to less experienced students. By meeting with a mentee, you will have the opportunity to break out of the normal work routine, gain a new perspective on your work and get the chance to broaden your awareness of current trends in the field. Mentoring is an effective method of development not only for the mentee, but also for you.
If you are interested, please contact the coordinator of the program: pickovar@vscht.cz
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Adam Zicháček
Role: Service delivery manager fot Sandoz
Field: Synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals
Employer: Sandoz Former: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Novartis
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students
What can I help my mentee with?
- Overview of the pharmaceutical job market, employment in the educational field (in both academical and commerce area) consultations,
- Fresh experience with doctoral studies and the transition between academic and private sector,
- Passion for coaching, finding your strengths and asking important life questions.
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Adam loved chemistry ever since his studies at the Jan Neruda high school, where he chose enhanced chemistry and physics. From there it was but a little step towards studying pharmaceutics synthesis and production. „I have always loved theoretical chemistry rather than the lab. I was fascinated by pharmaceuticals because they can also be a connection to my passion for biology and medicine.“ He dedicated his international Erasmus at the Braunschweig university to topical pharmaceuticals, which was also the topic of his diploma thesis, that he defended in 2020. After acquiring his Engineer title Adam briefly studied for a doctor, but he could not resist accepting a position in Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he worked as an automation engineer and a project coordinator.
A turning point in Adam’s life was the decision to leave his PhD studies and the job in Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he worked for almost a year and a half. He started considering not only job market opportunities, but also his skill set and his life path. „It was a moment of searching. I began thinking not only about a job but also about myself - what my talents and skills are and what I would like to achieve.“ Thanks to a thorough research and attending coaching he discovered his strength in managing. In 2022 he started working in Novartis as a project consultant, connecting interpersonal communication and talent for structuring. Thanks to the diversity of this job Adam acquired a broad overview of the pharmaceutical market in the Czech Republic. In May of 2023 Adam joined a Novartis’ subsidiary firm Sandos, where he continues as a Service Delivery Manager. His responsibility is the complete supervision over excellent delivery of applications for the finance department from external suppliers including the communication between both these entities.
A big motivation for entering the program as a mentor is his experience as a mentee. In his own words, „I had a mentor in this program, and I am where I am today thanks to him. Now I want to give back to the school and mentoring is my passion.“ In addition he remembers his time at UCT with love and pride and likes to come back there. He follows Jan Mühlfeit’s motto: „the happiest people are those who make others happy by doing what they love.“
Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-zichacek/
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Ján Sýkora
Role: Researcher at the University of; Chemical Technology, founder and managing director of Pharmacan s.r.o.
Field of study: analytical chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, Pharmacan s.r.o., before: Czech Academy of Science
Language: Czech, English
Mentees: Students
What can I help my mentee with?
- Self-development on a professional and personal level
- Introducing the work of an academic
- Science management
- Preparation of scientific and popular science publications
- Establishing a company in the Czech academic environment
- Assistance with grant applications
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Honza came to study at the University of Science and Technology in a roundabout way, although chemistry has been with him since primary school. Eventually he chose crystal chemistry for his master's degree and then crystallography for his doctoral studies. While he was learning the "craft" of X-ray structural analysis at UCT, he looked for techniques that could demonstrate the structure of a given substance in a form other than a perfect crystal. Then came an offer to work in an NMR laboratory at one of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences after his PhD. Since then, crystal structures have remained but a hobby, and for 20 years he has devoted himself fully to the NMR spectroscopy analysis of organic substances. Gradually he found a liking for the analysis of complicated mixtures such as reaction mixtures, extracts of natural substances or biological matrices. Since 2023, he has been working at UCT again, where he is trying to create a team that would deal with NMR metabolomics as a diagnostic method.
During his 20 years in the environment of the Academy of Sciences, he has worked his way up from an inexperienced postdoc, researcher, head of the scientific department to deputy director. He has supervised student work at all levels in the fields of organic chemistry, organic technology and analytical chemistry at the University of Science and Technology. In 2016, he and his colleagues went through the martyrdom of setting up a spin-off company in an academic environment. Their company, which focuses on the isolation of cannabinoids from cannabis, was certified by State Institute for Drug Control to produce medicinal substances this year.
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Michal H. Kolář
Role: Research Group Leader
Employer: Max Planck Society; Former: Jülich Research Center, IOCB Prague
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- Academic and non-academic career planning
- Studying, working and living abroad
- Communication and presentation skills
- Work-life balance
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Michal is a theoretical chemist, scientist, university teacher and occasional organizer of social events at UCT Prague. He grew up in a small Moravian town, from which he moved to Prague, where, as he expected, he encountered a wild variety of opportunities.
In Prague, he entered the Faculty of Science of Charles University and studied chemistry, later focusing on theory and molecular modelling. He enthusiastically remembers the years spent at the Budeč dormitory. He received his doctorate while working at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, during which he also completed several internships abroad. For example, he regularly spent the autumn period in 2009-2011 at the University of Nahang in South Korea, from where he returned to Europe by train. Travelling by himself through Asia had brought him an enormous range of experiences.
After completing his doctorate and a short internship in France, he joined the German Research Centre Jülich as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship holder. He therefore gained access to the most powerful supercomputer in Europe at the time, which slightly directed his further career. On the other hand, he experienced some disappointment from the academic world. He completed his second postdoctoral fellowship much happier at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. That is when he began to deal with protein synthesis and ribosomes, which he is still doing today.
He returned to the Czech Republic in 2018 and founded his own group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, focusing on using computer simulations for large biomolecules research. In addition, he volunteered for the Czexpats in Science initiative, which brings together scientists with international experience. His free time is devoted to his three children, he likes visits to forests, drinking good coffee, indulging in the magical world of Harry Potter, but does not enjoy eating tomatoes.
As a mentor, he would like to share his experience, support mentees in their career steps or help make it easier for them to step out of their comfort zone. He himself would like to broaden his horizons and expose himself to new ideas.
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Jiří Wald
Area: Molecular and Structural Biology
Employer: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, German Electron Synchrotron DESY
Language: Czech and English
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online
What can I help my mentee with?
- The path to PhD/PostDoc studies abroad
- Studying, working and living abroad
- Problem-solving strategies and critical thinking
- Communication and presentation skills
- Work-life balance: stress management and task planning
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Jiří is a determined scientist eager to uncover the secrets of the fundamental foundations of science and life. Thanks to his ability to set a clear vision and path to success, practical approach to things and his tenacity, there is no problem that would prove to be too challenging for him.
His journey through academic life began with his studies at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, where he first obtained a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Food Technology, followed by a master's degree in Biology and Microbiology. During his master's studies at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, he spent two semesters at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Living abroad has opened his horizons, gave him new opportunities and he has gained a lot of experience with academic work outside the Czech Republic, which he would like to pass on to his mentees.
After that, his functioning abroad was not over – his doctoral studies took place at the University of Vienna in the field of Structural Biology, where he wrote his doctoral thesis, which recieved great success and was published in the Nature journal.
During the pandemic, which unfortunately struck during his doctoral studies, Jiří once again proved that he is a truly steadfast and persistent scientist willing to face any problem head-on – in 2020, he volunteered to help in a diagnostic laboratory.
After completing his doctorate, Jiří took up his current position as a research scientist at the Faculty of Structural and Systems Biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he continues to explore the topic he developed in his doctoral thesis in depth.
Above all, Jiří would like to pass on to his mentees his innumerable experience and advice on how to live abroad. His scientific motivation is fueled by a curiosity about fundamental mechanisms of the world.
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ALDAR TSYBYKTAROV
Role: Manager
Area: Development, Construction, Data Analytics
Employer: NOVA ET VETERA, Honeywell
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english, russian
Form: Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- managing stress and pressure
- time management
- building self-confidence
- how to be mentally balanced with yourself and what you do
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Studying at an international high school, the Prague University of Economics and Business and then at Oxford gave Aldar an excellent knowledge of languages and contacts with people from all over the world. An international environment is still important to him today. In a five-year career at the international company Honeywell, he has worked from a starting position as a commercial real estate analyst up to a global management position. He has been responsible for complex project planning and building strategies around the world.
A year ago Aldar and his best friend started their own small development and construction company. Together they built the company completely from the ground up - creating a corporate identity, setting up internal processes and recruiting staff. Aldar is currently in charge of financial planning, contract management, the HR agenda, coordinating marketing activities, which includes working with the sales team, and also participating directly on construction sites during inspection days. "The overlap is enormous and it is one advantage of small companies - you get to experience much, much more than in large companies where people tend to be highly specialised."
Aldar would like to help students build their own confidence. "There are a lot of students who have potential, great skills, can achieve a lot, but just often don't believe in themselves. For example, they don't believe in applying to a prestigious university or they don't believe in getting a job. It's all in the head, and if I could ever help someone build confidence in themselves, that would be a huge personal achievement for me. That's the only way our society can move forward - if people are able to believe in themselves so that they can fulfill their plans and dreams." In addition, Aldar has always had a few mentors around him - mostly older friends he looks up to.
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Veronika Šímová
Role: Sales team manager
Field: Finance
Employer: Self-employed businesswoman; former: Plzeňský Prazdroj
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
What can I help my mentee with? :
- if they are considering changing fields
- reflect on their life purpose, goal setting, and time management strategies
- developing soft skills (presentation, marketing knowhow)
- offer them a sneak peek behind the walls of a managers work
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Veronika earned her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and biotechnology, immediately followed by a master’s degree in Economics and management of chemical and food-related industries. Within her master studies she was a part of a three-month internship in Plzeňský prazdroj, where she helped optimize the bottling line and then created a model simulation of this line, which she published in her diploma thesis. Next, she undertook an internship in Unipetrol, where she optimized the work in their chemistry laboratory thanks to a time study she carried out. She went on to win the Student science conference at UCT with this work.
She went into business even before she begun university, therefore she has more than ten years of experience, which she would like to pass onto her mentee. Throughout her bachelors’ studies she worked in marketing, where she gained experience by communicating with people in business meetings, learned how to make and give a presentation, and obtained a wide overview of the finance market. She also did financial analysis for her clients and created individual finance plans for them. Since 2018 she works as a sales team manager. Currently she is working independently, is a leader to a team of eighteen members, leads lectures on marketing, presentation and managing abilities and also secures development of expert knowledge for her team.
Veronika loves to work with people. Especially because she likes to help others grow, to learn new things and to reach their goals, but also because she is surrounded by a team of wonderful positive people who create a work environment full of inspiration. Within her work she is often concerned with concepts such as motivation, planning, time-management and self-development. Besides all this experience she is also familiar with the world of chemistry, and would gladly share her knowledge from all these areas with her mentee. „I would like to pass my experiences on and therefore give something back to my university. It is also very nice to still be in contact with the school. “
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Jitka Vallová
Role: Procurement Business Partner Confectionary CEE
Area: Purchasing, FMCG
Employer: Nestlé, Brenntag, Zentiva,
What can I help my mentee with?
- negotiations, project management
- basics of team leadership, motivation
- an overview of the corporate environment
- orientation in supply chain positions
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After graduating from UCT in 2004, Jitka was looking for a job where she could use her knowledge in chemistry and English. She knew she didn't want to work in the scientific field, so she looked for interesting trainee positions. She chose Brenntag's annual trainee programme, which took one candidate from each country in Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she tried out different positions in the company in several European countries, and before she could complete the program, the CEO offered her a permanent position as head of the food commodities department. "At that time, the skills I gained at our university - logical thinking, being able to piece together information, where to find it quickly, how to apply it in practice - helped me a lot." Through this position, she found that she really enjoyed the procurement field and wanted to stay in it. After four years, she joined Zentiva for a year and then received an offer from the company Nestlé, where she has worked ever since, for more than 10 years.
Her first position in Nestlé was as a tactical buyer. After two years there, she was offered her first managerial position, head of the raw material and packaging purchasing department, which had five employees, and Jitka continued working there until her maternity leave. During that time, she still worked part-time; for example, leading a project to transfer a part of the operational processes to a shared services centre in Ukraine. After several successful projects, Jitka was offered to take over the management of the entire purchasing team.
"In my opinion, purchasing is for people who are multifunctional, like variety and don't need a precise template for everything. It's very much about the creativity you need to bring to the job." Currently, Jitka is in charge of a team of 5 purchasing specialists in 3 countries, each covering purchasing for one manufacturing plant. The job involves, of course, trying to buy materials of the right quality at the best possible price, as well as the logistics part - getting the materials to where they need to go on time, communicating with the development department, the quality department, etc.
In addition to the corporate environment, Jitka also knows the non-profit sector well. She felt the need to balance the large company environment with something different, smaller, and therefore worked for ten years for a non-profit organization dedicated to creating events based on the principles of experiential pedagogy for adults. She wanted to become a mentor because, as she says, UCT is still a matter of the heart for her. In addition, in the past she had her own mentor who helped her a lot.
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Pavel Řezanka
Role: Research Fellow, Head of Radioanalytical Methods Group
Employer: UCT Prague
How can I help my mentee?
- Insight into the academic environment
- Experience of managing a research team in an academic institution
- Experience of putting innovative teaching styles into practice
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Graduated from the Faculty of Science at Charles University and the University of Technology in Prague. He is interested in separation techniques, in particular capillary electrophoresis, which he uses for chiral separations of mainly pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs. He also studies nanotechnology, specifically nanoparticles, where he studies their preparation, modification and use. Last but not least, he is interested in radioanalytical methods, specifically topics related to deep-sea repositories and radionuclides in the environment.
He currently serves as Head of the Radioanalytical Methods Group at the Department of Analytical Chemistry and as Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, and in other roles that arise from these positions.
He began to explore innovative teaching methods in 2020 and has introduced them in all the courses he teaches. He has also been awarded a PIGA project on the subject.
He likes to look for ways to solve problems his motto is "Anything goes, it's just the little kids that have to wear it."
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Olesja Lancevská
Role: project manager, leader of the Business academy course, facilitator of the acceleration program My first million
Area: innovation, start-up, business model, self-development
Employer: Technological innovation center in Zlín
What can I help my mentee with?
- Build a business model for their idea/project
- Learn to prioritize and put all necessary steps in the right order
- Identifying their goals and how to reach them, not just in the professional life
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Olesja came to Zlín to work as a project manager in the Technological innovation center after finishing her studies in Olomouc and Prague. She was in charge of the acceleration program for aspiring businessmen “My first million”. Thanks to her determination and hard work she quickly made her way up the career ladder, even though she had no experience with managing a project or with entrepreneurship. After six years she is now able to give students advice on their projects and can help them start their businesses and generate business ideas.
She and her colleagues are the authors of a business teaching methodology, which is now used in high schools, and at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. This year she completed a certified coaching course, which, as she believes, can make her very helpful to both the academic and student community.
She is entering the mentoring program with hopes to help students achieve their goals. She believes it is important to support young and talented individuals with the potential to succeed in the business world or become excellent employees. She will gladly share her experience with teaching business at a university with students as well as academic workers or doctorands, all of whom can become mentees to Olesja.
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Helena Staňková
Emplozer: Marketing BI former: Direct Fidoo, Saltpay
Language: Czech, English
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Lubomír Kovařík,MSc.
Role: lecturer of educational activities in non-formal education
Area: education, soft skills development
Employer: Technologické inovační centrum, s.r.o.
What can I help my mentee with?
- awaken the initiative to implement their ideas
- create a healthy and effective environment in a team
- focus on sustainability, work with the future in mind/idea of the future
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Lubomír acquired a masters degree in Business and management at he Aston University in Birmingham in 2021. Perhaps it was right there, where his love for developing enterpreneurship and supporting world-changing projects was born.
He has been involved with non-formal education and lecturing since 2014 within the Atmosféra, z.s. association. He is also actively expanding the principles of non-formal education into the school systém. Since 2021 he has decided to use his experience with the conceptual thinking about educating others in the position of project manager and a lecturer of experience courses within the Technical innovation center in Zlin.
„I would love to be constantly saving the world, I like to give meaning to my actions and motivating young people to action and creativity.“ He loves to discuss which competences will be necesarry for a young person in 2035 to succeed in life. He spent some time living abroad and continues to deepen his experience through traveling. He enjoyes cycling and surfing.
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Role: CEO of the Technological Innovation Centre in Zlín
Area: Ph.D. - Business Process Management
Employer: TIC Zlín Former: Akademie Sting, CzechInvest, MŠMT
Language: czech and english
Mentees: students, staff and academics
What can I help my mentee with?:
- Business plan consultations
- Intention positioning on the market
- Building and validation of business models
- Building a Lean Canvas model
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Lukáš earned a doctoral degree in Management and Economy at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. Within his work in the academic circles it is worth mentioning, among other things, that Lukáš prepared case studies for the Mendel University students, and later he became the head deputy of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Sting Academy. With his current position as an executive at TIC Zlín he still reamins a lecturer at his alma mater where he teaches at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication in the Arts Management Atelier.
Apart from his academic career, Lukáš’s journey took him through several other interesting jobs. He considers his eight-year experience in the trade business to be fundemental, although his time spent working as an expert team member of the Individual project of the national KREDO at the Ministry of education, youth and sports is also worth mentioning. As is his position as the director of the CzechInvest regional office for the Zlín region.
Beside his profession he is also an enthusiastic skier and an even more enthusiastic father of two creative sons.
„For me, the key motivation to participate in the mentoring program is TEAMwork.“
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Role: Technical sales representative for biomedical applications
Area: Ultrasonic and laser welding of plastic products
Employer: DUKANE IAS s.r.o.; former: National Instruments, Digiteq
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?:
- I myself had no idea what my professional life would look like while still attending university (really, I had no clue at all) and I would have liked to meet the future me or someone like the person I am today to share their experiences with me
- I can share my insights on what is worth your time investment, what most mattered to my employers and what things did not matter at all; also, what matters to me, as an employer
- I can show you/teach you/ help you understand what I call a “healthy levity“ and how to use it both in work and in life
- I can take you on a visit to our manufacturing and offices, so that you can get a taste of a regular non-embellished work day
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Martin earned his Ing title in biomedicine at CTU. His passion for discussing big ideas in teams of interesting people was born in Ireland during his summer school stay in Dublin. A wide variety of expertise and life experiences, that is the kind of company where big and ambitious projects are put in motion. To this day he makes use of his sixth sense for finding talented innovators, whose ideas should definitely not stay hidden. That is, among other, one of the reasons Martin joined the mentoring program – to help find and realise these ideas, to bring them from a lab all to way to the market.
After his studies Martin joined the National Instruments firm, where he very quickly made his way from a Team leader to a Staff application Engineer. Beside team leadership he is also required to train, coach and recruit new employees.
Currently he works for Dukane as a Technical salesman for bio medicinal applications all across Europe. Apart from his profession he spends his time raising his three children, climbing mountains, in his workshop or with his bees.
He is joining the mentoring program with hopes to help today’s students to better navigate their way through studies and on the job market. „I like young people and their ideas, energy and different point of view on things. I myself would have appreciated a similar contact during my studies, and I feel like meeting me could definitely have merit for some students. “
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Thomas de Bruyne
Role: organizational psychologist, co-founder of BeInX
Area: psychology, VR and AR, leadership transformation, digital consulting
Employer: BeInX (co-founder) Former: Deloitte
Language: English and Dutch only
What can I help my mentee with?
- Advice on starting a business or entrepreneurship
- Navigating the corporate landscape
- Advice on projects related to immersive technologies
- Technology insights in the area of AR and VR
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Thomas is an organizational psychologist who got his MA at the University of Ghent. He is also a tech optimist with a fervent passion for co-creating a Future of Business. He envisions workplaces where individuals thrive within healthy, communal platforms. A strong believer in the transformative power of education and bold leadership, he sees these as the cornerstones of a prosperous world.
Virtual reality holds a special place in his heart, serving as his favored method for shifting leadership consciousness and speeding up the learning process. He also actively dives into innovations where psychology and technology converge. This includes VR, consciousness, biosensing & neuroscience, flow states, psychological safety, sleep, art, dreaming, and more. As a co-founder of BeInX, Thomas offers (aspiring) leaders and their teams immersive experiences tailored to the emerging futures of their industry. This vision aligns with his dedication to fostering a healthier Future of Business. Rooted in this is his conviction that a profound understanding of emerging technology drives healthier decision-making. This principle is a reflection of his experiences during his time establishing the Xperience Lab at Deloitte in his role as Co-Chair for the Transformative Tech community in the Czech Republic, Thomas cultivates connections and ignites conversations about the transformative power of technology.
He champions its potential to instigate profound shifts in consciousness for those audacious enough to embrace it. At the heart of Thomas' philosophy on mentorship is a relation built on inspiring and vulnerable exchanges of life experiences, ambitions, hopes, fears, and trust. He is personally looking forward to investing in such relationships that are fulfilling and empowering for both mentee and mentor alike.
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Jana Kamanová
Role: Vědecký pracovník, Vedoucí laboratoře buněčné biologie infekcí
Area: mikrobiologie, buněčná biologie, interakce patogen-hostitel
Employer: Microbiological departzment, Academy of science Czech republic
S čím mohu svému mentee pomoci?
- Vhled do akademického prostředí
- Zkušenosti s managementem výzkumného týmu v akademické instituci
- Zkušenosti se studiem v zahraničí
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Jana vystudovala molekulární biologii a buněčnou biologii na Přírodovědecké fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Postgraduální pobyt strávila v laboratoři Jorge Galána na Yale University v USA, kde analyzovala funkci efektorů sekrečního systému typu III u bakterie salmonely. Nyní vede výzkumnou skupinu na Mikrobiologickém ústavu Akademie věd ČR a zabývá se analýzou mechanismů virulence gramnegativních bakterií.
Co mohu nabídnout? Rozhovor, jisté zkušenosti a také svůj pohled na věc. Případného menteeho by věda měla zajímat natolik, že v současnosti uvažuje o tom, že by se jí v budoucnu věnoval. Mohu pak zodpovědět otázky a možná i upozornit na některá úskalí. Také můžeme mluvit o tom, jak vedu svůj tým, a co je pro mě důležité v jeho fungování.
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JAN FRONĚK
Role: Academic coach
Area: Career and Personal Development
Emmployer: Freelance, TEREZA Education Center
WHAT CAN I HELP MY MENTEE WITH?
- Create a road map to successful completion of a Ph.D. degree (setting a vision, motivation, plan)
- Balance study with work
LinkedIn profile
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Helping teachers and other academics is something that has always made sense to Jan. While studying andragogy, he was already helping schools with programs for students and teachers, and during his PhD studies he most enjoyed teaching and connecting with new people. 12 years of teaching social psychology to American students was then a key experience for him.
The PhD period was a vivid one for Jan and brought him two big surprises. The first was the discovery that he and his wife, whom he had just married, did not want to live in the city. They bought an acre of land and decided to build a house and a small farm. The second surprise was the discovery of coaching. Jan got into coaching through a lecturing job at a company. "Suddenly someone explained to me how to define a goal and then how to work towards it. I've always been an honest student, so I started trying out the tricks on myself and on my own projects - like building a house and a farm, and eventually I even finished my own PhD thanks to that, although at one point I was losing motivation." Jan found that what he enjoys about coaching as an introvert is that it is a one-on-one conversation that visibly moves people along. He started coaching full time in 2010.
In addition to coaching, Jan currently works at the TEREZA Education Center, where he is in charge of a team of four that helps Czech teachers teach about nature in the outdoors. He creates training, methodologies and online support, with the aim of bringing children and nature closer together for the benefit of both.
He enters mentoring with the motivation "to help students, especially PhD students and postdocs, achieve their goals faster without losing their soul and relationships". And he is also looking forward to broadening his horizons and making connections at the technical school.
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PAVEL KUKULA
Role: executive director
Area: organic technology, catalyst production
Employer: RANIDO, former: Solvias, Süd-Chemie, Clariant
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to approach publishing correctly and effectively
- find your way around the labour market, even abroad
- how to approach important decisions
- work-life balance
LinkedIn profile
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Pavel is a graduate of UCT Prague, where he worked in the field of catalysis within organic technology. After completing his PhD studies, he took up a PostDoc position at ETH Zurich, starting a career abroad for several years. From Switzerland, in addition to his scientific work at ETH, he has experience in the private sector, at Solvias. A key experience for him was the six years he spent at Süd-Chemie in Germany, where he worked his way up to the position of Head of Sales and Business-Development for Customer Catalysts. "It was a very important experience, firstly I travelled extensively for about three years and secondly I had the opportunity to go through the catalyst manufacturing process from the beginning, from various feasibility studies, technology validation, through the gradual scale-up to commercial production."
"I have gained a lot of experience abroad, I have often had to navigate difficult situations on my own. For example, it was not easy to find a job in Switzerland, I must have written 200 applications, and in Germany I was registered at the employment office for some time." After fifteen years abroad, Pavel decided to return to the Czech Republic and try his hand at business. During his time in Switzerland, he co-founded the company RANIDO. The impetus for this was finding a way to regenerate the Raney-nickel catalytic converter. However, despite successful testing, the idea could not be commercialized, so the business was abandoned. A few years later, however, the existing company became a good springboard for Paul to start a new business. He now works as Managing Director of RANIDO, a company that develops and manufactures custom catalysts.
"I think that nowadays, when we are really overwhelmed with information, it is very important to look for which ones make sense, if they are the right ones. Simply - to look for the truth. Even in the commercial sphere, where a company may look very attractive on the outside, but you have to check how it really works from an economic point of view. That can be quite complex and it's something that I'm learning myself at the moment." Pavel's motivation for getting involved in mentoring is mainly a desire to meet interesting people, to find out what it is like among students today, how they think, what they are interested in and what their ideas about life are.
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VOJTĚCH KUČERA
Role: Material Specialist
Area: materials chemistry
Employer: ŠKODA AUTO a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- comparison of the academic environment with the private sphere
- insight into the corporate environment
- presentation skills (in academia and in the corporate environment)
- how to organise your work effectively
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Vojtěch chose to further his studies at UCT after the general grammar school. He enjoyed chemistry and first wanted to study organic chemistry. However, in his second year he was lured by the offer to participate in a research project dealing with metal alloys with shape memory, so he switched to the field of Chemistry and Technology of Materials with a focus on metals and their alloys. He has remained in this field ever since. During his master's studies he went on an Erasmus trip to Lovan and then, in a split year, took a part-time job at METAL TRADE COMAX, which, among other things, recycles aluminium alloys. After defending his master thesis on the same topic, he did not hesitate and went on to get his PhD. After a year and a half of studying, Vojtěch felt he needed to take the plunge into something new. He was attracted by the idea of combining academia with industry, so he applied for the PhD programme at ŠKODA AUTO. He successfully completed five entrance interviews that tested various skills, including an assessment centre, and today he only needs to defend his dissertation to complete his PhD.
"It was a great experience for me to be able to work with many people with different know-how on my dissertation, which was very enriching." During his PhD, Vojtěch went to Taiwan and Canada for an internship; in addition to his supervisor at UCT, he also had a supervisor at the CTU, and part of the work was carried out in collaboration with the Technical University of Liberec and the Politecnica delle Marche University in Italy.
At the moment Vojtěch is working in the press and welding shop of the production plant. He is involved in material analysis, introduction of new materials and technologies and also deals with cooperation with universities on research projects. He also takes care of trainees. "In my experience with interns, not everyone is suited to the same environment, workload or people. I am happy when I get feedback and can then find a different type of work for them so that both parties are happy." At the moment, Vojtěch is the product owner of an innovative project to introduce new technology in the context of digitalisation of production, which collects input data and in the future should help to manage production so that it is smoother and "error free".
He is involved in mentoring because, as he says, he likes the programme and if he were a student at the moment, he would certainly take advantage of the opportunity himself. He is looking forward to helping the younger ones with his experience and also getting feedback on himself.
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LUĎKA FYLES
Role: Senior Vice President Pharmaceutical Affairs
Area: Farmaceutický průmysl
Employer: Pharmazet Alliance Group, former: MSD, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Norgine, Ranbaxy, Boots Healthcare International, Aurobindo , Eugia
What can I help my mentee with?
- Pharmaceutical Affairs (drug registration, quality assurance, distribution, pharmacovigilance - drug safety, medical information)
- advise on how to structure a career path
- project management - prioritisation, risk assessment, critical thinking, time management and the right choice of career focus
LinkedIn profil
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After graduating from medicine, Luďka went through the path of finding the right place, through radiodiagnostics and working in a hospital, to a position as an assistant in pathological physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, to discovering pharmaceutical law in connection with medicine while working for pharmaceutical companies. It was very important for her not to lose this connection with medicine and discovering the field of pharmaceutical law became a challenge she could not resist. Thus, she completed her education in pharmaceutical law and started her 26-year career in Pharmaceutical Affairs, during which time she has worked for many international pharmaceutical firms and has now been based in London for over twenty years, where she now heads the London office of her home firm, where she has been Senior VP Pharmaceutical Affairs for over 12 years. During her career she has been responsible for all areas of pharmaceutical affairs - pharmacovigilance, drug registration, distribution and quality assurance. The connection with medicine won and today she is mainly involved in the area of registrations and pharmacovigilance at Pharmazet Alliance Group.
At the same time, Luďka says that the world of Pharmaceutical Affairs is very complex and the different parts are closely interconnected, offering good career development opportunities. "What I find very interesting about the legislative and control part of the pharmaceutical industry is the constant development of pharmaceutical law and the possibility of work placements from Europe to Asia, which is now the main centre of the pharmaceutical industry. The opportunity for training, which never ends, is an interesting parallel with medicine and the need for lifelong learning. Add to this the job opportunities that take you to places in Europe, India or China, and pharmaceutical affairs is a choice you will never tire of."
Luďka also has many years of experience working not only in England, but also in Malta, India, Vietnam or China, but in London she found her second home and despite frequent trips to Prague, she still lives here with her family. She says she would like to give back to students through mentoring the valuable advice and help she has received on her career path "Everyone has to discover their own path and we all have a different approach, it is important to discover a field that we will not only make a living in but also enjoy. I am very happy to give advice and pass on my experience, but the decision will always be yours, as only you can write an interesting book of your life, we should be there as your background and support.
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ONDŘEJ PÁNEK
Role: Production Director; former: project engineer, launch leader, lean manager
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
What can I help my mentee with?
- project management (from research to production line start-up)
- working with people
- insight into the workings of a large company
- presentation skills
- personal development
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Ondřej is a graduate of UCT Prague, with field of study of pure chemistry and technology of environmental protection. He prolonged his studies by one year because of Erasmus in Sweden and also because he always tried to explore other activities beside his studies, for example he was a member of ESN. Studying abroad inspired him to start looking for a job as soon as he returned. He successfully passed Procter & Gamble's selection procedure and started a one-year internship at a manufacturing plant in Rakovník. His task was to increase the efficiency of the sulphonation unit, which he did - he ended his internship by presenting his results to the company's management, and he was also offered a full-time job once he graduated. During his last summer as a student, he also managed an internship in the R&D department of a company in Frankfurt.
When Ondřej resigned, the company was opening a new engineering centre in Rakovník, which seemed to him to be an ideal combination between production and R&D. This proved to be the case and he spent eight years in the department, during which time he worked in various project management positions and was in charge of projects for the production and packaging of detergent powders throughout Europe. At the urging of his manager, he subsequently decided to try a job more in the manufacturing area. As a launch leader, he took over a newly installed unit from the engineers and was tasked with bringing it to life, including all the necessary certifications and testing. He then handed over the equipment to the production department.
Another role was that of lean manager, who is responsible for keeping an eye on how the production processes are set up in terms of efficiency. "Here again, I got a glimpse into the imaginary kitchen to see how production works here." After a few years in manufacturing, however, he wanted to return to project work, and took up the position of technical director, with all investments going through the engineering group under his direction. Today, Ondřej is Production Director for Lenor's manufacturing and packaging operations.
In his role as a mentor, he hopes to make contacts outside of the corporate environment and looks forward to sharing his experience from six different roles in one chemical company. He is also interested in reconnecting with his alma mater and student energy.
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EDITH KUTORGLO
Role: PostDoc
Area: Functional nanomaterials, membrane chemistry
Employer: UCT Prague, TU Berlin
Mentoring language: english
Form: online, personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to put together a CV, how to prepare for an interview
- project management, grant preparation
- work-life balance
- colloidal chemistry and nanoparticles synthesis
- introducing them to people in the field
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Edith's study path began with her Biochemistry degree from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She graduated with the best grades at the top of the class and for her Master degree in the field of Membrane Engineering, she got an Erasmus Mundus scholarship, within which she spent one semester in each of the following countries: Czech Republic, France, Spain and the UK. For her PhD studies at UCT Prague (in the field of Chemical and Process Engineering) she settled for some time in Czechia, however also during this time she went on an internship at ETH Zürich.
Her rich experience from studying and working abroad is now being followed by her PostDoc position at TU Berlin. Within her scientific work she is developing new catalyst materials which could, together with the energy from sunlight, be used to drive certain reactions for producing cleaner energy.
Edith has always been mentored throughout her scientific career path. “I can't imagine how difficult it would be to do it all by myself without any help or advice. I believe everybody is different and has a different approach, so the mentor is not there to teach you how to do things. He/she is there to share their own experience. Imagine, you are going somewhere, but you don't know what is ahead, because you have never been there. It is a great help if someone else, who has already been there, can share their experience so you have an idea what to expect and prepare for it.”
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ŠTĚPÁN HODAČ
Role: Managing Director
Area: Food industry
Employer: Beavia
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to build a company from the ground up
- retail on a national and international level
- food production
- inside look at building a company with a legal overlay.
LinkedIn profil
Beavia
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Štěpán already knew during his law studies, which he successfully completed, that he did not want to pursue this field in his professional life. However, it was more by chance that he started a company in the food industry. 14 years ago, he travelled the world, tasted hummus for the first time during a visit to Israel, and was completely enchanted by this food. When he returned home, he discovered that this delicacy was not available on the Czech market, which gave him the idea to start a business in this area. After a short analysis, he decided that it would be best to start producing and supplying hummus to shops. Since he knew nothing about food production, he locked himself in the library for three months and studied materials from the University of Science and Technology. He again learned about operations from friends who had their own restaurant. In 12 years, he managed to build a company with a turnover of about 40 million a year with operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Austria and Germany.
"If I had known then what was in store for me, I wouldn't have gone for it. That was the so-called fool's trick, the sweet ignorance. You have your vision, but you can't think it through properly without relevant experience. Then difficult situations come up and those around you tell you they don't have a solution because they already have that professional blindness, but they haven't even tried." In the beginning, Štěpán worked even 12 hours a day, and because he planned his start poorly financially, he found himself, for example, eating only hummus and pastries for three months. Even though he hit rock bottom, he remembers this period fondly. "I absolutely love the moments when you go through a skeletal period and at the end you reap the fruits and you think - I made it."
Stepan now runs the company mainly financially and strategically. He thinks about where he wants the company to be in a year, in ten years. At the same time, he still enjoys presenting the company, showing people what they do and how they do it. He is still learning how to work with people, motivate them and supervise their work. For him, mentoring is mainly a process of learning and personal growth.
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MAJA KĄDZIOŁA-AVBERŠEK
Role: Regulatory Affairs Manager
Area: Pharmaceutical chemistry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: GSK, Wrigley (Mars)
What can I help my mentee with?
- the characteristics of regulatory affairs (focusing on major markets like EU, CA, BR and US)
- how to get started in the regulatory field
- how to balance work dynamics between different project in a timely manner
- how to efficiently work in a dynamic cross-functional and cross-continental environment
- the particulars of moving abroad and career development
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While studying Chemical Technology at Poznań University of Technology in Poland, Maja got her first job experience as an intern in Logistics and Integrated Business Management at Wrigley. There she gained a good overview of the workflow and organization of a big corporation. “I think this helped me in my future jobs, as I started early and when I finished my studies, I already had experience with working in a large corporation.” Her first full-time job was a Junior Regulatory Specialist at GSK Pharmaceuticals in Poznań, where she gained knowledge regarding regulatory requirements. After six months of working there, she received an offer to move to GSK Biologicals in Belgium and to work in the field of registration of vaccines, which led her to dive deeper in the biological sphere, rather than her chemical background.
Currently Maja works as a Regulatory Affairs Manager at Sandoz Development Center in Austria. Her responsibility is to provide the research and development team with support throughout the registration process of a new drug. Her guidance includes facilitation of the communication with EMA (European Medicines Agency) or FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) in order to get the new drug approved and registered as soon as possible. Maja is also responsible for the regulatory strategy.
Maja enrolled in a MBA study programme to learn more about the field of business. “It is a lot of work and you have to be well organized. During weekdays I’m working and I spend the weekends studying. However, it is rewarding to have a better understanding of business.” Maja decided to join our mentoring program because she wants to give back what has been given to her - she has had a few mentors who helped her with her career. She also thinks that it is beneficial to stay connected with younger people and to learn from them.
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ALENA NOVÁKOVÁ
Role: MS&T technical specialist, project manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Novartis, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaxeon Consulting SRO
What can I help my mentee with?
- developing communication skills
- project management
- get an insight into pharmaceutical manufacturing
- work-life balance
- time-management
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Alena graduated from Drug Synthesis and Production at UCT Prague and already during her studies she was collaborating with the company Teva Pharmaceuticals where she also started a full-time job after graduation. In her first year she went through several positions in the production department, gained insight, and finally settled as a transfer technologist. After three years of intense work dealing with more and more complicated projects, she started struggling with burnout. As part of a necessary lifestyle change, she decided to move to the riverside of Otava where she opened her own bar and built a returnable cup system along the entire river. She set the workflow, communicated with the sanitary authorities, the tax office and other institutions, worked as an operator, hired employees, etc. “I think that sometimes you need to take a break to see what you're actually missing, and after a while I realised I was missing pharmacy." However, her new experience made her realise that she enjoyed project management, so she applied for a job as a project manager at a consultancy company that deals with drug registrations. Currently, Alena works at Novartis where she is responsible for supporting manufacturing in implementing process changes so that new procedures can be validated.
On top of this, Alena began her MBA studies in Management Soft Skills with the start of the pandemic. "I live in a constant state of change, and that brings an important ability to adapt. There are a lot of things we can't control. Sometimes it happens that you work on something for three months; then suddenly someone above you wants something completely different. That's the way it is, but you have to take it with a pinch of salt." Alena sees mentoring as an opportunity to support each other through contact with other people who are similarly set up. Students, she says, should be aware that they want to go the extra mile and be open.
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ANDREA MARUŠÁKOVÁ
Role: senior tester
Area: IT
Employer: BTL Medical Technologies s.r.o.
What can I help my mentee with?
- identifying and organizing priorities
- knowing how to manage yourself
- take an active approach to work
- finding motivation
- how to create the conditions for deep work
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In high school, Andrea's learning always went well on her own, she didn't have to work too hard and she thrived with honors. She enjoyed maths, studying foreign languages and was interested in computer games. So she chose the Faculty of Information Technology at CTU for further studies, where she was hit quite hard after high school. She found that college was largely about self-study, which she found challenging - she didn't know how to learn effectively. After a year, she dropped out of school and applied to study tourism at the University of Economics. But she eventually chose the challenge again and ended up back at CTU in Biomedical Engineering, where she finally found herself and ended up using the knowledge and skills from FIT. When she was looking for a part-time job to join the school, she saw an offer for a software tester position at BTL. The position, despite her misgivings (from school, Andrea felt she should go to work in a hospital) was appealing, and she eventually took it and stayed on full time after completing her Master's degree.
"I'm a person who doesn't like to be bored at work, so as soon as there was an opportunity to take on some extra responsibility, I didn't say no." So she gradually added other responsibilities such as automated test programming, documentation and translation to her regular job as a tester, which involves testing the application and verifying requirements. Naturally, she fell into the position of "test lead" and acts as a liaison for all colleagues in the department, as well as training new ones. She sees this as a hugely profitable investment - if she is thoroughly involved with a person and they learn the activity well, she herself will have less work to do in the future. Moreover, she likes to see someone move on thanks to her.In her spare time, she enjoys reading books on personal development, which is what her perfectionism has led her to do in the first place. "A lot of people take perfectionism as an enviable trait, everyone appreciates it, your boss praises you, but internally it eats you up. You keep piling on more work, and if you really want to do it properly, then it's just too much - a typical example of toxic perfectionism." In mentoring, Andrea hopes that by sharing her experiences she can help the student with his/her own direction and also sees the programme as a space to meet new people, which she misses after graduation.
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ANNA FUČÍKOVÁ
Role: Associate Professor
Area: Nanomaterials, Biophysics, Chemical Physics
Employer: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, the Academy of Sciences
What can I help my mentee with?
It depends on the needs of the mentee - they should come and say what they need to help with. They can agree on how the mentee can develop in the direction they choose with Anna.
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Anna studied as a biophysicist, but as she says, the post doc position at KTH made her become a chemist as well. She works with nanomaterials and their potential applications in biology. Her work includes their synthesis, chemical and physical analysis and cytotoxicity studies. Despite living with dyslexia, dysgraphia and dysorthographia, Anna has managed to overcome these obstacles and now she is doing what she enjoys most - science. She has published extensively and her scientific work has been recognized with several prestigious awards.
As a mentor, she would like to help students reach their full potential. She believes that it is very important to have a chance to ask a senior person any question to clarify one's own life goals and broaden one's horizons. "My goal is that a student who comes to me and starts at a certain percentage, leaves a hundred percent better. It's up to them what they need to improve."
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DAVID ŠKVAŘIL
Role: People and Customer Care, Partnerships
Area: Finance
Employer: Fondee; former: Future Port, Air Ventures, BCG, MALL pay, Alza
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to be active outside of school
- outline what different roles in companies look like
- self-development
LinkedIn profil
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David picked up a lot of extracurricular activities right after starting his freshman year at UCT. As he says himself, he had this twisted idea at the time that studying was not enough and he wanted to try everything that tempted him. He joined the student associations IAESTE and ESN and found a part-time job in a recruitment agency. "It just seemed important to me to do something, so I picked up quite a lot quite randomly. I figured I'd somehow make it work, and if I didn't, I'd at least give it a try and see what I enjoyed." Of his student activities, he most enjoyed being involved in IAESTE, working with companies and organizing the fair; he stayed in the association for three years. But at the same time, after completing his freshman year at FPBT, he realized that he was more attracted to other fields and transferred to CTU, where he studied economics.
During his studies, he completed an internship at a marketing agency and then tried out the things he had learned in practice at Alza, where he focused mainly on online advertising. Another role he tried was as an ambassador at the Boston Consulting Group. He organized various events to help promote the company to students. At the same time, David started working at a small investment fund that looked for start-ups that made sense to invest in. It was mostly about working with data and communicating with people from startups. Another student position was as a coordinator in healthcare and finance for Future Port Prague, a technology festival at the Prague Exhibition Centre. David became interested in finance, so his next experience was working for MALL pay. This eventually led him to his current position, which combines several areas that he enjoys - finance, start-up environment, working with people.
"The fact that I've changed so many different environments wasn't because I had a grand plan of what I wanted to learn. As a student, you really have a lot of options and it only costs you a little bit of time to try them out. So I tried things that appealed to me and where I could learn something new, and that made me realize what I really enjoyed, what made sense to me at the time, and where I really wanted to work." At Fondee, David has three main responsibilities - looking after HR (recruitment, selection, job design for individual roles, internal events), working with other companies and customer care.
He knows both sides of mentoring himself and says he has moved along his own path and learned new things through it. He looks forward to being able to help his mentee in the same way, plus he enjoys meeting new people who are tuned in to the same way he is.
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DENISA LIZOŇOVÁ
Role: PostDoc
Area: Chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals
Employer: UCT Prague
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to organize time effectively
- how to present one's work
- recognise and further develop one's own potential, apply personal strengths
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Denisa has been working in the field of pharmaceuticals since the beginning of her studies at UCT Prague. She completed part of her PhD studies in Drugs and Biomaterials at Imperial College London. Her research in the field of targeted drug delivery involves collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences and the company Zentiva. She is a member of the Chobotix research group where she is working in the area of nanoparticles and nanotherapeutics primarily for the treatment of cancer.
A crucial part of her work is the education of young scientists. Denisa has worked with a total of fifteen MSc and BSc students, who she led to successful graduation. Working with people and teaching science is fulfilling for her. She enjoys showing her students how to "use your brain in everything you do. It’s possible to get a degree in the same way as if you followed a recipe and baked a cake. But it's nothing I pride myself on." Denisa tries to guide all of her students to be able to work creatively and innovatively and to be independent scientific individuals. However, she believes these principles can be applied outside of the academic sphere as well. She enjoys helping students learn how to present their work and themselves and how to articulate their ideas clearly. Another area of interest which Denisa is happy to help her mentees with is how to effectively organize one’s time so that in addition to studying and working, one also has time for oneself and one’s interests.
Denisa is one of the founders of one of the largest student associations UNI-ART, a singer in the popular university band, Band4Students, and an avid player of sports.
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FILIP MICHALSKÝ
Role: Data Scientist
Area: Finance
Employer: Fidelity Investments
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to get into prestigious universities abroad (USA, Germany, UK)
- machine learning
- business development
- start-ups
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Filip started by studying process engineering and computer science at UCT Prague. After a year, he attended Bates College in Maine, USA, and he also spent a year at TUM in Munich. For his master’s degree, he was accepted to seven Ivy League universities, ultimately choosing the Computational Science program at Harvard. "Studying there is not harder than it was at UCT, but the difference is that you get to meet a lot of fascinating people from all over the world, and that was really an experience."
He has gained professional experience at several companies, starting out in hospital device consulting, then co-founding the Checkmate Diabetes platform, and the commercial real estate analytics company DeepREa. Today, he is a senior data scientist at a financial services company with over 60,000 employees. He researches recommender systems and delivers models to production. Within the company, he serves as a mentor for aspiring data analysts. Filip is also currently building a digital marketplace for investment mortgages in US real estate (www.corelant.com)
He enjoys creating products that impact people and have the potential to make a difference in the world. "I like things that go wide rather than deep. I like working with people, and my philosophy is that at first I'll try to do everything myself to learn the principles and understand how it works, and then I'll hire people to take over some of the work from me." Another motivation for joining a mentoring program is the desire to give back. Filip would like to become a philanthropist one day.
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IVAN SOUČEK
Role: director
Area: chemical industry, economics and management
Employer: Union of Chemical Industry; former: Kaučuk Kralupy a.s., Unipetrol, Paramo Kolín a.s., Česká rafinérská a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight into strategic planning, investment decision making
- transfer of experience from the industry - oil processing, alternative fuels, biofuels
- orientation on the labour market and employment opportunities
LinkedIn profil
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Ivan graduated in plastics production and processing technology and started his professional career as an operations technologist at Kaučuk Kralupy. During the 11 years there he worked his way up to head of the strategic planning department, an area he has been involved in ever since. His first job was negotiating with potential foreign partners and drawing up long-term strategic plans, and in 1995 this work led to Ivan being one of the first three employees to found Unipetrol and to participate in the creation of the joint stock company Česká rafinérská. At Unipetrol, he was involved in science, research, development and investment and became a member of the Board of Directors. Other work experience includes the position of General Manager of Korama Kolín and Česká rafinérská a.s., in 2012-2015 managing the preparation of a large refinery project abroad. Since 2016, Ivan has been a director of the Chemical Industry Association, an association that provides advocacy, education support, communication with the state and European administration, and support to member organizations in selected areas related to the chemical industry. They also promote chemistry to the public and bring together companies and research institutions and schools.
Throughout his rich industrial career, Ivan has also devoted himself to his studies. After graduating from college in Russia, he decided to attend the University of Economics in addition to his full-time job. "Studying at a full-time job is really a big deal, especially if you enjoy the work extra. So I ended up quitting after five semesters, but I managed to learn what I wanted to learn." He took several international economics courses - including a 2-year course from the University of Chicago and DePaul University, a 2-month production management course in Japan, and a 1-year sector economics and management course in Milan. He completed his studies only in 2007, when he successfully completed his PhD studies at the Institute of Economics and Management, University of Economics and Management. However, he continues to teach and is the author of nine books on strategic planning and more than a hundred articles and conference papers so far.
For the same reason he chose to teach, Ivan is now involved in mentoring. "Naturally, one would make do with work alone. The work I do here at the school is really extra and I certainly won't get rich from it. But the point is that you learn a lot of things in your lifetime and it would be a huge shame to keep it to yourself."
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JAKUB ROSÁK
Role: Marketing and Business Development Specialist
Aera: Energy
Employer: Primagas, Linde, Becherovka
What can I help my mentee with?
- business
- marketing
- gain an insight into the operations of small businesses and corporations
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Since childhood, Jakub has been drawn to creative activities and has enjoyed music and literature. However, he wanted to get an education in a technical field, so he applied for studying at the UCT. After finishing his bachelor's studies in Chemical Engineering, he knew that although he loved chemistry on paper, he did not see his future in the laboratory. Therefore, he chose an economics-oriented field for further studies, and during his studies he started working at the marketing department of the large chemical company, Linde. This experience mainly gave him an insight into a large international corporation. "You learn a lot of different things at school, but often you don't really have a clear idea of who is responsible for what in the company and how it works." Another work experience was a year-long trainee programme in Becherovka, where he was tasked with analysing sales data for the sales department.
After graduating, he started working in the company Primagas, where he still works today. At the beginning he was in charge of the complete marketing agenda of the company, but gradually he started to add sales projects to it. Currently, for example, Jakub is in charge of the contract through which almost the entire volume of LNG in the Czech Republic is traded. Three and a half years of working in a smaller company allowed him to try out a large number of activities and gain a broader perspective.
"I would like to motivate students to start as soon as possible: write to a few companies you like, go to a few interviews, and be active. I think that's most beneficial because you get to look inside, you get to know the people." He also believes that it is good to differentiate yourself when looking for a job by having an interesting hobby or activity outside of school. Jakub has been singing and playing guitar in a big-beat band for eight years, was a dramaturg in the cultural student association UNI-ART throughout his studies, and in his spare time he is a pilgrim. Through mentoring, he wants to meet students who are studying energetics, fuels or gas chemistry as part of their studies and get to know (perhaps in Carbon) what's new in research in this area.
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LUDĚK MICHAL
Role: Sales and Technical Representative
Area: Materials, Chemical Industry
Employer: BASF; formerly: SILON
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- transferring experience in the industry and chemistry of compostable plastics
- explanation of the particle foam process
- time management
- work-life balance
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Luděk knew already in primary school that he wanted to work in chemistry; therefore, he enrolled in a vocational chemical school within the state-owned company SILON. After graduating from UCT Prague with a focus on chemistry of polymers, he started working there. After two years he joined the company BASF, where he has been working for more than 25 years till today. His first position was s sales representative for polyurethane foam sales in the Czech Republic. Gradually he was given responsibility for other sales regions and products, and is now responsible for a large part of Europe.
His main job is to find new customers and take care of existing ones, with whom he also works on developing new applications. These are mainly orders for the automotive industry. "So you could say that we are working together on the development of a new application and then working together on the production of a test prototype series."Why does Luděk want to become a mentor? "Well, I want to try something new, and I miss UCT Prague, which I graduated from."
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JAN JELÍNEK
Role: Business-Designer, Project Manager, Consultant
Area: Innovation Design, Marketing, Management & Leadership, Startups, Creative Industry
Employer: Q Designers, freelancer, Nerudný fest (founder)
What can I help my mentee with?
- developing and testing products and services with customers
- setting strategy and business models
- effectively manage processes and projects
- setting up good team collaboration
- keeping priorities in order, performing well, but living "like a human being"
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Jan and his classmates founded their first company at the age of 17 for the purpose of a school festival at the Jan Neruda Gymnasium. Within a few years, one of the most significant productions in the Czech Republic organizing music festivals developed from the project. Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and creativity led Jan to other projects. He helped his mother start her own family publishing house Naše kniha, founded the first DJ Zkušebna in Prague, and the local black initiative Na Nohou.
After high school, Jan went on to study sociology and economics at Charles University. Here he became more interested in marketing and management. As part of his studies, he completed an internship at Perfect Crowd, a marketing agency that combines creativity and research. He later completed his education with an MBA at the Prague International Business School.
In addition to his own projects, Honza started to freelance more and more. "I help companies grow," Honza answers when asked about his primary focus. "I don't like to use the word consultant. Experience has taught me that good advice is usually not enough for big changes. When building or changing something big, it's first and foremost about working with people and building a solid foundation. With both, companies, like people, usually need not only advice but also help."
Currently, he works primarily at Q Designers as an innovation and business designer. In addition, he helps small and large companies with marketing, project and process management as well as business analytics and strategy. He has completed dozens of large projects for companies such as Česká spořitelna, Rohlík Group, Nano Energies and Kytary.cz.
Jan has devoted his career to working in the creative sector, focusing on connecting business and impact projects. He is also interested in personal development, mental health and sustainability in the broadest sense. He enjoys getting to know new people and their unique worlds. "If I see potential somewhere, I can't help but try to squeeze it out of people and companies," explains Honza why, among other things, he accepted the invitation to join the mentoring programme.
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JAROSLAV SALLER
Role: Internal Audit Manager
Area: Finance, Consulting, Audit
Employer: Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte Audit, Deloitte Advisory, Neox
Mentees: students, employees
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- gain insight into the corporate environment
- discuss options how to start your career path
- advise on how to write a cover letter, resume
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The first important work experience for Jaroslav was a part-time job at McDonald's. He would recommend everyone try such a job. What he took away from it was the knowledge that the company's processes can be devised almost to perfection in order to make them as fast, safe and functional as possible. He graduated from UCT Prague and, as he says about himself, was not one of the best students. However, the university gave him the important ability to think analytically. He still uses this skill in his work. Jaroslav knew that he wanted to work on his thesis in cooperation with a business. He collaborated with the company Neox, for which he designed a business continuity plan that the company still uses today.
After graduation, he first started working at Deloitte in the audit department where he worked on inspections in companies in various industries across the country. After more than two years, he changed departments and spent the next three years doing due diligence on the purchase and sale of companies. A period of change followed both in his professional and personal life, and after five months off work, Jaroslav joined Johnson & Johnson where he started again almost from scratch as a senior financial auditor. Beyond his position, he was also involved in internal training in which he was trained in various areas to become a lecturer and to lead workshops for other employees. Thanks to this extra activity, Jaroslav is currently starting a new position as an Internal Audit Manager for EMEA.
And why does Jaroslav want to join the mentoring programme? "I have been very lucky in my life, but at the same time I have never been afraid to go for it. It's important not to be afraid to ask people for help because they usually agree. Now I would like to give back to the world."
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KAREL ZHENG
Role: Manager, Founder
Area: Technology Startups, Finance
Employer: Accomango, BCG, KAYA (Enern), Twisto
What can I help my mentee with?
- realizing a startup with only an idea (funding, work team, clientele)
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Karl's career kicked off before he started university, when he began flying to China as a translator for large Czech companies. Through his translation work, he gained insight into the field of business and entrepreneurship. While studying at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, he worked as an intern at BCG and subsequently joined the venture capital fund Enern (now KAYA) as an analyst. The fund invests in start-ups–this is how companies such as rohlik.cz, Slevomat or Footshop grew. When Karel decided to try the other side and started working in a young company called Twisto, where he helped with fundraising and smart growth, he soon realized that he wanted to build a company himself. He and his friend Patrik Havlíček then put together several ideas, which after four failed attempts resulted in Accomango.
At Accomango, they are trying to improve the process and quality of employee accommodation for industrial companies and recruitment agencies. They have developed a platform that simply connects companies looking for accommodation for their workers on the one hand and lodging houses on the other. "It may not sound like the sexiest business, but we're working with some awfully smart people on this, and it's a big market that no one is paying attention to." The company has received backing from several large investors. Karel was primarily responsible for building the technology team, taking care of fundraising, setting strategy and building the product.
His activities have led to his inclusion in the Forbes '30 under 30’ in 2021. You can hear more about the things he enjoys and is passionate about in the podcast below. Karl himself has been fundamentally influenced by several mentors he has had in his life. "You know you can talk to someone, and it's not part of some hidden agenda when someone gives you advice. That's the philosophy - if the people around you are successful, you can be successful too, because of them and with them."
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KATEŘINA SLADKÁ
Role: technologist
Area: chemical engineering
Employer: LB Minerals; former: ALS, Klokner Instritute of CTU
What can I help my mentee with?
- outline the differences between working in academia and the private sector
- how to find what I enjoy in scientific work
- how to travel abroad while studying
LinkedIn profil
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Since high school, Kateřina has been interested in chemistry and mathematics, so she applied to study at the University of Science and Technology, majoring in Analytical Chemistry. She quickly realised that she was more interested in chemical engineering calculations and technology rather than laboratory measurements and pipetting, so she chose to pursue a Master's degree in this field. As part of her studies she travelled twice, the first trip was a study stay in Nuremberg and the second was a work placement at a Croatian university.
While still studying, she tried her hand at part-time work as a researcher for the Klokner Institute, where she was mainly involved in infrared spectrometry. After obtaining her engineering degree, she also applied for a PhD thanks to this work, but soon decided to leave her studies, as she was drawn towards a technological position rather than a research position.
Currently, Kateřina works as a technologist at LB Minerals, a company that deals mainly with kaolin processing. As a technologist, Kateřina is responsible for the optimal setting of technology parameters and chemical dosage. She also has a small part of research work left - she is also involved in development tasks in the company.
And why does Kateřina want to get involved in mentoring? "I chose analytical chemistry at the time because I thought it would be cool to indicate colour changes in solutions and find out what it was by that. But I soon found out that the reality was something else. If I can help someone who doesn't quite know where to go with their studies or career, I would be very happy to help."
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KATRIN NEUBAUEROVÁ
Role: Researcher
Area: Bioengineering
Employer: Bene Meat
What can I help my mentee with?
- independence in scientific work (how to develop your own project, how to set up a start-up strategy)
- optimizing systems
- design of 3D scaffolds
- working with materials
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Katrin works at Bene Meat, a biotech startup, where they are researching and developing technology for the production of artificially cultured meat. She came to the company in its early days, and as she was the only person on the team who had never worked with cell cultures, she started taking care of everything else - bioreactor design, materials research, and media purification. So, she tried her hand at many areas and ended up doing research and development of 3D scaffolds and bioreactor design for cell culture. "You have to make clear what your goal is and then whatever you need to achieve it, you have to be able to procure or learn. Be flexible and don't be afraid, even if you're going somewhere you don't know."
Katrin enjoys organizing her time. "I stand by the fact that once I leave work I don't want to think about it anymore. In the research area this is challenging because your work is always running through your head. But if you set it up functionally, then it makes sleeping and eating and living in general so much better." She is also motivated to get involved in mentoring by her desire to work with people, to help students with the hardships she herself has gone through, and to help them find paths they can take in life.
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KRISTÝNA KANTNEROVÁ
Role: PostDoc
Area: Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Employer: ETH Zürich
Mentoring language: czech, english
What can I help my mentee with?
- grant submission
- writing scientific articles
- admission into universities abroad
- dealing with mental health while studying
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Kristýna has been involved in chemistry since high school when she participated in the Chemistry Olympiad and clubs. In her final year at high school and during her studies at the UCT Prague, she worked in a laboratory at the Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD studies at the Swiss research institute EMPA, during which she developed a new method for the isotopic analysis of nitrous oxide by laser spectroscopy and its applications. She also spent three months on a research fellowship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, which was supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
She was then further involved in nitrous oxide isotopic analysis within her post doc position at ETH Zurich, specifically dealing with the interface of analytical and environmental chemistry. She recently applied for a Swiss National Grant (SNF postdoc mobility) for two years in the United States that was successfully funded. Since January to April 2022, Kristýna works at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen on the development of an isotope-analysis method for oxyanions with Orbitrap mass spectrometry; since May 2022, she will continue in this topic at CU Boulder, in the scope of the funded postdoc fellowship.
"I think if a student wants to get somewhere, they need a mentor. It's important to be able to ask and hear the opinion of someone who has been through the same thing. I didn't have that opportunity and I feel like I missed it." Kristýna is also motivated to get involved in mentoring from her experience of dealing with mental health difficulties in her studies and the opportunity to help someone get through something similar or to help them prevent such difficulties.
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LENKA KADEŘÁBKOVÁ
Role: Director
Area: Education, Volunteering
Employer: INEX-SDA, Startup Jobs
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to set your goals, preferences and personal vision
- how to organize your time effectively
- learn different methods to find out what you enjoy
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Lenka graduated from a Waldorf school, which has a particular view on pedagogy. Through her studies there, she got very close to working with people. At the same time, she always wanted to be connected to nature and animals, so she decided to study at UCT Prague with the aim of understanding chemistry and basic relationships in nature so that she one day could work for the good of people and animals in general. While studying at UCT Prague, Lenka was an active member of the association IAESTE, and through her work there she realized that she believed in education and she enjoyed leading a team and working in an international environment. From this point, she began to form her vision to create opportunities for people to learn.
As a chemistry graduate, Lenka started working for a startup and then for the american company CEA Prague where she helped foreign students find internships and acted as a mentor for them. In 2019, she applied for the position of director of the NGO INEX-SDA, and she got the job. INEX-SDA deals with international volunteering and intercultural education. Lenka's work as directress is divided into three main sections - the first is the HR agenda, i.e. taking care of the staff, then the strategic management of the organisation and finally securing funding, which involves finding grants and their administration.
For Lenka, inspiration is the biggest value that guides her life. "I think mentoring is just about getting inspired. I admire when people have the will to develop themselves, I think it's very important. And when a person is willing to draw on someone else's experience and knowledge, they can be inspired."
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LUCIE NUÑEZ
Role: Head of Department for the European Research Area
Area: Research and Development, European grants
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
What can I help my mentee with?
- career guidance (in the scientific field)
- networking in the research sector
- insight into public administration
- the grants agenda and its process
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Lucie works as a Head of the Department for the European Research Area Unit at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Her team consists of 10 staff members, whom she coordinates, and together they deal with the cooperation of research institutes (universities, research organisations, etc.) within the European Union. For example, they support Czech researchers in their participation, promote opportunities and challenges, negotiate with the European Commission and other member states in the form of cooperation, and administer research programmes in a number of scientific sectors. A more specific example is the European Partnerships where Lucie is responsible for negotiating the form of these partnerships and their funding or coordination at a national level. The partnerships launch calls for proposals and then collaborate with other EU countries on the awarded projects. Lucie says that "Czech researchers tend to be successful both nationally and internationally, but there is still a lack of greater motivation to participate in European open calls, thus not utilising fully the financial potential of European programmes and deepening international cooperation."
Through mentoring, Lucie would especially like to help young scientists with their career paths, for example, by getting involved in international projects in the EU Framework Programme. "I would like to ensure that young people, who are considering a scientific career or even already have research experience, are not afraid of challenges and take advantage of all available opportunities at national and international levels. I believe that, thanks to the young generation, the Czech Republic can fully exploit its potential in the field of research, development and innovation and become one of the most successful countries in Europe."
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LUKÁŠ FERKL
Area: Energetics, environmental management, consulting
Employer: EnviTrail (founder); former: CTU UCEEB, Feramat Energies (founder)
What can I help my mentee with?
- Career development, searching for profession directions
- Academic track development
- Management skills, team leadership
- Mentoring in the energetics and environmental fields
- LinkedIn profile
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My name is Lukáš Ferkl, my career path has taken me from managing the research institute at CTU UCEEB all the way to founding the firm EnviTrail, where I, as CTO, deal with ESG and the carbon footprint calculations for both small and big clients, such as ČSOB, PPF group or Škoda Auto. I have great experience with team leadership and complex projects management. I also require wide range of information on energetics, environmental issues and academic environment for my work.
To me, mentoring means completely open knowledge and experience sharing, but also listening and understanding your goals and challenges. Together we can explore the possibilities of your future career, work on developing your skills and create strategies for achieving your academical and professional goals. I approach mentoring with respect and openness, which means that your topics and questions will always come first. Whether you seek concrete advice on energetics and sustainability or general navigation in the academical world and team leadership, I am here to help you find your way.
Face to face meetings would preferably happen regularly every three to six weeks, depending on your convenience. I like to work with practical projects or „homework“, which can help you find out something about yourself, gain new skills or learn something. Aside from my professional life I spend my time with music, skiing, astronomy and evolutionary biology, which are areas that bring me not only joy but new perspectives to share with my mentees as well. I am excited to meet you and to start discovering where your path will take you.
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MAREK LANČ
Role: Head of Research and Testing
Area: Physical Chemistry
Employer: CCORE Technology GmbH
What can I help my mentee with?
- membrane processes
- medical device development
- presentation skills
- taking advantage of opportunities for international internships, conferences, etc.
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Marek was attracted to chemistry already in high school; he participated in the Chemistry Olympiads and summer camps where he met his future classmates and a community of like-minded people. He started his studies at UCT Prague where he gradually became interested in the practical application of chemistry and thus got into the field of membrane separations in physical chemistry. He focused on the topic of membranes throughout his bachelor's, master's and PhD work during which he also attended two research internships: one focused on the silicon-based thin films at FUJIFILM in the Netherlands and at the second at the Institute of Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR) in Calabria, Italy.
"So far, my whole career has followed the method: take on a challenge you like." Marek is currently working at CCORE Technology. CCORE's vision is to make life easier for people with respiratory problems through the development of a miniaturized and affordable system for removing CO2 from the bloodstream. In the initial phase of the project, based on close collaboration with the university, Marek was responsible for the development and modification of the membranes necessary for the device. Based on the interpretation of technical data from external partners, he contributed to the redesign of the project goal and the decision to significantly strengthen the internal technical team. Currently, the company has approximately 15 employees and is developing a complete system consisting of an extracorporeal circulation (membrane module, centrifugal pump, etc..), a control console and software. Marek is responsible for research and testing. He defines what needs to be developed from a clinical-chemical point of view and provides input from a biochemical and chemical-engineering point of view. He plans and leads internal testing, including in-vivo large animal testing, and provides feedback to the engineering team. In collaboration with the "regulatory" team, he is co-responsible for the verification and validation process. In addition, he performs literature, patent and market analysis to identify new directions for development.
During his studies, Marek has been involved in many popularization projects and was the chairman of the student part of the Academic Senate. "In the senate I learned not to insist on having everything my way at all costs, but rather to delegate work to people I trust. Of course, it also puts you in situations where you have to make decisions about things you don't understand and take responsibility when you need to." Marek sees mentoring as an opportunity to be in touch with students and pass on what he has learned outside of his field of study that they can use in the future.
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MAREK ŠOLTYS
Role: project manager; dříve: project lead scientist - formulation
Area: pharmaceutical industry
Employer: Sandoz (Novartis); former: Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech, english
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- Presentation skills and effective communication
- Orientation in the corporate environment and finding a position
- Insight into the functioning of the pharmaceutical industry
- Scientific positions in the pharmaceutical industry
- CV writing, writing publications, moving abroad for work
- Communication with corporate and academic management at all levels
- Leadership and (de)motivation
- Horizontal leadership of people and teams (project work)
- Structured project management
- Resolving crises and highlighting the team's achievements
- Risk and opportunity analysis and risk/opportunity management
- Decision Making (not only in projects)
- How to "sell" your innovative ideas to conservative management
LinkedIn profil
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Marek graduated in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague and decided to pursue a doctoral degree at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Chobotix laboratory. He was involved in the development of porous silica micro and nanoparticles that can be used as carriers of active substances in pharmacy. All of his scientific work within the framework of his doctorate was partly carried out under the company Zentiva, which allowed Marek to understand the functioning of a large company and learn what is expected of a person in certain positions, what such a person could be responsible for, etc. Throughout his studies at UCT, Marek had numerous extracurricular activities – he was a student senator and an active member of K3S.
During the fourth year of his Ph.D. studies, Marek began to actively look for a job abroad. Since he was quite picky, as he himself says, it took him 10 months to find a suitable position. In the end, he chose the position of formulator in development at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz, which previously belonged to Novartis but became independent at the end of 2023. Specifically, he joined the development centre in Kundl, Austria, which is less than a 5-hour drive from Prague. "Development in pharmaceuticals works a little differently than in academia, because you have quite strict deadlines – you're pressed by a certain date when a patent is released, and if you're not on the market with a drug at that moment, you lose your position."
As a formulator, Marek worked on documentation, designed and conducted experiments, evaluated data and dealt with risk analysis. In May 2022, he moved to a new position in project management within the development department, where he is in charge of coordinating all people involved in the development project, and where he has been working until now. He is responsible for adhering to the project schedule and financial schedule, resolving crises and negotiating with Sandoz's senior management. "My experience from the UCT Senate helps me a lot in negotiations. It's beneficial to be able to guess what someone is really thinking or what they really need to hear." In recent months, Marek has also been involved in projects aimed at improving internal processes within Sandoz and has been using his experience in communicating with colleagues from many branches of the company in different countries. Since Marek's working life largely takes place online, he can pass on his experience on how to collaborate effectively in an online environment, conduct meetings, build full-fledged working relationships and how to set up a good home-office regime. Marek joined mentoring because he wants to pass on his experience that could be a great help to someone.
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MARTIN HRUŠKA
Role: HDW Department Manager; former: PSG Line manager, FE Line manager, FE Process Engineer
Area: Chemical Engineering
Employer: Procter&Gamble
What can I help my mentee with?
- advice on how to combine work and school and not go crazy
- how to handle the fact that you're working in a different field from the one you graduated from
- insight into the workings of a large company
LinkedIn profil
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Martin studied chemistry at the Secondary Industrial School in Pardubice, from which he went on to the University of Chemical Technology, majoring in Biochemistry. Right at the beginning of his studies at the university, he found a job as a laboratory technician at Coca-Cola, where he worked shifts - morning, night and twelve hours at a stretch. As he says, sometimes it was quite complicated for him to combine work with time-consuming school, compulsory labs and homework. For Martin, however, it was the only way to cover the costs of living in the capital.
Thanks to his Erasmus experience in Norway, he realised that working as a lab technician was not entirely fulfilling and decided to try something new when he returned. He successfully passed the selection process for an internship position at Procter & Gamble. He was given the task of devising and optimising a process for the reuse of reblend (a waste mixture in the production of a product) and wanted to continue his work once the project was completed. As he was not yet able to start full-time work due to his studies, the company invented a new type of position for him, which still exists today - a traineeship. "Working here has always been a long way from getting any clear progression. My assignment was - they're bottling here, the line generates X tons of waste a year, and I need it to be half that. Here's your phone, here's your computer, here's the people on the line and get it done."
After graduating, Martin started working full-time at the company and after years of combining work and school, he was relatively relieved. He stayed with project work for a while, tried more technological positions, and then had the itch to move closer to management. He was put in charge of the margarine production line and was responsible for about 22 workers, and after two years he moved on to manage the team responsible for the production of washing powders. Now Martin is in a senior management position and is responsible for the production of Jar for the whole of Europe and a team of about 55 people.
"I started studying chemistry when I was 15 years old, finished after 9 years of study and found I was doing a job that, although I work in a chemistry company, is not about chemistry and is as far away from it as it can be." Despite this, Martin says he is very happy to have graduated from UCT. The school as a whole prepared him well for finding complex solutions to problems that arise in his work. Moreover, he says that the school has always been helpful and he would like to repay it through mentoring.
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MARTIN PULTAR
Role: Technologist
Area: chemical technology
Employer: Draslovka; former: Spolana, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, UCT Prague
What can I help my mentee with?
- provide insight into different work environments - academic vs. private
- provide insight into the workings of the chemical industry
- outline what a technologist's job looks like
- finding creative solutions
- time-management
LinkedIn profil
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Shortly after graduating from high school, Martin found a summer job in a laboratory that focused on the analysis of water of various origins, giving him a taste of the laboratory trade before he started at the University of Technology. He completed his Master's degree in Inorganic Technology and since he enjoyed the field, he decided to do his PhD there as well. He first combined his studies with work at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked on magnetron sputtering, and thus gained insight into a completely different field from the position of a development engineer. Although it was an interesting and enriching experience for him, Martin wanted to focus more on the field of chemical technology and got a job as a sulphuric acid technologist at Spolana. Here, in addition to his full-time job, he completed his doctoral thesis and then successfully defended his PhD. In the final phase of the "dissertation marathon" he still greatly appreciates the support and understanding also from his then supervisors and colleagues.
After three years at Spolana, Martin received an offer from Draslovka, where he now works as a technologist in the production of alkali metal cyanides. In the future, he would like to be involved in internal research and development activities in the field of chemical technology. "The position of a technologist can differ in certain details in each company. But in general, the main element is the same. In addition to routine monitoring of process parameters, product quality and raw material and energy consumption, situations occur almost daily on production sites that require a detective-like approach to unravel and find the causes."
As part of the mentoring, Martin would like to learn what interests and motivates students today to study chemistry. At the same time, he would like to help someone by sharing his experiences from different stages of his studies and from quite different working environments.
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MARTIN SCHÄTZ
Role: Assistant Professor, EU Open Science Coordinator
Area: Biological and Medical Image Analysis, Informatics, Data Analysis
Employer: UCT Prague, Faculty of Science at Charles University, National Library of Technology
What can I help my mentee with?
- have an overview of what one is dealing with and how to get it all done
- find direction
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Martin came to his current job through photography and graphic design. He was interested in how images are created, what happens in the background of them and how it is possible that we can manipulate them on the computer. He studied computer science at UCT Prague, and nowadays he works with signal and image processing mainly in the medical field. For example, he is currently developing software for hospitals to evaluate CT data to estimate the percentage of lungs affected by coronavirus. He is also working at the open access microscopy department of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University and at the National Library of Technology where he is helping to introduce Open Science in Czech science. Through his position there and in his teaching activities at UCT Prague, he is able to continuously learn new trends in data management and pass them on.
After joining the university, Martin felt he was missing a lot of things here, so he started getting involved where he could to help get things moving. He worked his way up to the position of Student President of the Academic Senate and several student associations. "I got used to having an outlet, and also all the extra activities gave me a place to find out what I enjoy and what I'm good at. At some point you get to a point where you do a lot and enjoy it and you would like to start getting some money for it. Then you have to force yourself to figure out what makes you different from other people and who could pay you for those skills." As a mentor, Martin would like to help students learn to have a perspective on the field they are involved in. He can advise on what areas outside of the curriculum to focus on. In addition, he himself lacked a similar program while studying at UCT Prague.
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MARTIN SKALA
Role: Business Development Manager, Project Manager
Area: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry
Employer: NUM Solution; former: Metoil
Mentees: students
Mentoring language: czech, english
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- contact with industry, application of knowledge from school in practice
- chemical engineering and its applications
- collaboration on case studies
- putting research results into practice
- consulting in industrial chemistry
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During his undergraduate studies in the general chemistry programme at UCT, Martin decided to direct his career into the application rather than the scientific sphere, although research and development remained his primary focus. During his studies, he participated in projects for industrial companies, which was the subject of both of his final theses defended at UCT. After completing his Master's degree and an internship in Ecuador, he joined the Research Centre Řež as an R&D worker, and he was engaged in scientific research support for conventional and nuclear power plants in the field of chemistry in the form of grant and commercial projects. After 6 years he moved from the research sphere to the implementation team where he was attracted by the potential commercialization of scientific results and their application in practice.
In his current position at NUM Solution, he is responsible for business development and project management in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. This position involves coordinating the entire project lifecycle, from finding technology challenges and potential clients, to designing solutions and communicating practical requirements to the programmers handling mathematical simulations, and finally to the finished product and interpreting the results back to the client. In his position, Martin works closely with the management team to help the strategic development of the company in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. He is responsible for both short-term consulting assignments and long-term projects based on close collaboration with the client's team.
By joining the mentoring program, Martin would like to keep in touch with the university as an institution and its students, who he sees as having great potential. He sees the opportunity to collaborate as a way to give something back to a place that has given him so much in return. "I would also like to support my mentee in what I lacked at uni- contact with industry and seeing the possibilities of research applications. To get away from what the academia sets for you as goals, and what their hierarchy of values are. I saw teaching as a bit of a form of competition, but it's not always about the same things as in real life."
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MARTIN STREJC
Role: Researcher
Area: Physical Chemistry with a focus on nuclear research
Employer: ÚJV Řež, a. s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight and transfer of experience from scientific research to practice
- gain contacts in the field
- prepare for the selection procedure from the perspective of both the candidate and the employer (in the Czech Republic and abroad)
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After his studies at UCT Prague with a focus on physical chemistry, Martin joined ÚJV Řež, a. s., where he works as a scientific researcher and leads assigned projects. He either chooses the focus of the project himself or, in the case of commercial orders, implements them according to the client's wishes. He is in charge of solving the assignment itself, as well as the administration related to it, or managing other team members. He also looks for new scientific challenges and opportunities for collaboration. The projects, which last between 3 and 4 years, are carried out nationally and internationally.
Even his free time is partly connected with chemistry, as he cooperates with the Communication Department of the UCT Prague to popularize science and promote the university's activities, for example, he participates in the organization of the Gaudeamus Fair.
Through his role as a mentor, he wants to give students an insight into the work in the field and provide them with quality and relevant practical experience or contacts. In general, he sees it as important to support students on their journey and increase their competitiveness in the Czech Republic and abroad. He says: "Today's students and graduates have a great advantage in having free access to the labour market in all EU countries. I would like to help them make the most of this benefit."
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MATĚJ ŠIMEK
Role: Senior researcher
Area: analytical chemistry, biotechnology
Employer: Contipro a.s.
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
Mentoring language: czech, english
What can I help my mentee with?
- career guidance
- how to prepare for an interview
- choosing a job in another city
LinkedIn profil
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Matěj chose to study Biotechnology at the University of Science and Technology. However, over time he discovered that he was most interested in numbers in chemistry and that he needed "hard data" to best understand the connections. Therefore, while still an undergraduate, he switched to the Production and Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals and eventually landed on Analytical Chemistry, in which he says he finally found himself.
After completing his Master's degree, he suspected that the role of an analyst, who has a clearly defined task for which he seeks a solution in a relatively short time frame, would suit him best in his working life. However, he decided to take up a one-year trainee programme at Contipro, where he tried out a number of roles in research and development. The first project he was put in charge of was the development of vaginal suppositories, and through his work on this project he found that a more creative role, where he had to think strategically and plan the various stages of development well in advance, suited him. After completing the trainee programme, he focused on pharmacokinetics - testing drug forms and medical devices in in vitro and in vivo models. This work combines testing with advanced methods of analytical chemistry and mathematical modelling. For Matej, this is an ideal combination of more creative development and working with data.
After two years in the workforce, Matěj decided to start his PhD studies. He was attracted by the possibility of later using his degree in senior positions and the opportunity to do his PhD in a dynamic company environment. It also gave him an insight into the way of working in other workplaces - he completed his Ph.D. studies at Palacký University in Olomouc and went on an internship in Vienna. In addition to new knowledge and a degree, the three and a half year study brought him, thanks to good networking in the academic environment, further cooperation and new contacts.
Matěj now works at Contipro as a group leader in the pharmacokinetics group. "I practically don't wear a lab coat anymore. In addition to evaluating and planning pharmacokinetic experiments and developing new analytical methods, I am leading a long-term research direction to elucidate how orally administered hyaluronan can act in the body to save our joints. This is a multidisciplinary topic that is a challenge not only for analysts, but also biologists and other specialties." So Matthew's new job is learning how to assign tasks within the team appropriate to each person's interests and skills. He sees mentoring as an opportunity to network and collaborate with people who are genuinely interested in science and development.
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MICHAELA CHRASTNÁ
Role: R&D Project Manager, Facility Manager, Construction Manager, External Relations Manager, HR Work Process Leader, Process Engineer
Area: Project Management, HR, Construction
Employer: Lego; former: Procter & Gamble, Zentiva
Mentoring language: czech
Mentees: students, employees
Form: Online, Personal meet up
What can I help my mentee with?
- have courage to deviate from the field of study
- create a plan to balance your personal and professional life
- find peace within yourself (you don't have to make all your decisions straight out of school)
- how to lead a team and care for people
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Michaela was an active member of the IAESTE association during her studies at UCT Prague, and she was the main coordinator of the iKariéra fair and even became the head of the local centre. This experience shaped her to a large extent, and Michaela realised that she wanted to pursue a technical-industrial path after finishing university. Therefore, she accepted an internship at Procter & Gamble, where she ended up working for 11 years. She started as a process engineer in production, and she was in charge of packaging lines. After a while, she was offered the opportunity to move within the company to the position of press spokesperson to which she later on added a part of the HR agenda.
After maternity leave, she returned to the company as a project manager, where instead of managing production lines, her job was to build them. Several international projects passed through her hands, including the installation of a production line in Saudi Arabia, but as a woman she never obtained a visa and managed the entire project remotely. During her second maternity leave, when she lived partly in Slovakia as part of a split family, Michaela worked part-time and managed a large construction project to remove a hill behind the factory in Rakovník and build a new entrance to the factory.
The successful approval of the new entrance was the symbolic icing on the cake of a long career, and Michaela subsequently moved from a project position to an operational position at Zentiva, where she worked as a Facility Manager, to which she eventually added the position of Head of Metrology, Qualification and Validation. After two years, she felt it was time for a change: "I know about myself that I am not a 'run-the-business' but a 'change-the-business' person. I've always more or less worked with the long-term horizon. I wondered what was going to happen in three years, five years. I wasn't a person who was extremely long on the day-to-day operations, the day-to-day management." At this point, Michaela joined Lego as a technical project manager in the R&D department.
"I've been in a position where I've recruited people a few times, and I've always looked for something to set them apart. The university provides an excellent education, but it's just some basics. You need to develop, and I think the pressure is getting greater and is definitely greater now than it was during my student years." For example, Michaela attributes her activity in the student organization to the fact that she has learned to take care of people and motivate them to do a good job. In positions of leadership, and often in all-male teams, she has always relied on humility, trying to take good care of her colleagues and listening to them. She would advise students not to be afraid to leave what they majored in and go into another field. For her, the desire to pass on gained knowledge is natural: "You want to leave something behind, and I find that investing in people is the most beneficial."
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MICHAELA GAJDOŠOVÁ
Role: Formulation manager
Area: Pharmaceuticals
Employer: Zentiva
What can I help my mentee with?
- gain insight into the workings of pharmaceutical development
- learn what to expect from different positions in the generic pharmaceutical industry (development, manufacturing)
- personal development, communication and working with people
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Michaela has enjoyed research work since the beginning of her studies at UCT Prague. During her Master's degree, she was put in charge of several younger students as their supervisor. As part of her PhD studies, she collaborated with the pharmaceutical company Zentiva, where she was also offered a position within the formulation development department, which Michaela accepted. To get a position here, you need a PhD: "The job is very specific. I think it's about proving by successfully completing a PhD that you have the ability to lead projects and work independently, which is what is needed here." The work of formulation scientists takes a drug form from start to finish - it involves the design and optimization of the drug formulation, the performance of the product, the design of the manufacturing process itself and, if successful in clinical trials, the submission of the drug for marketing approval.
After two and a half years as a formulation scientist, Michaela has been promoted to a management position, and currently has responsibility for the projects of her three fellow formulators in addition to her own. She also helps them with personal development and management skills development, an area she enjoys. "I really honestly believe that it makes sense to talk to students about opportunities and experiences, because if you direct yourself early, you can have a nice career and be content in life. If I could help someone in this way, I would be very happy."
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MICHAL CHMIEL
Role: HR Director
Area: Human resources
Employer: ORLEN Unipetrol; former: Orange Polska, Telekomuniacja Polska
What can I help my mentee with?
- overall soft-skills development
- show what life after studies looks like
- advise on what to do while studying to make the person interesting for the employer
- show what it means to manage people
LinkedIn profil
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Despite the fact that Michal is an IT graduate from Warsaw University of Technology, he has been working in HR all his life. His first job after graduation was supposed to be a data analyst for the HR department of a telecommunications company, but within a very short time he took over more and more of the HR manager's agenda. During a career of about 14 years in telecom companies, he worked his way up to a director position.
He has now been HR Director at ORLEN Unipetrol for 9 years, with about 5000 people under his management from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Germany. His responsibility is to take care of the overall HR agenda - from recruitment to departure of employees, payroll and accountability to external institutions such as tax office, social and health insurance etc.
Despite his successful career in HR, Michal does not forget his passion for IT. "I still miss this field, maybe I will return to it one day. I admire students of technical universities because I know how demanding studying there is. I respect all those who complete their studies at technical universities."
As part of his mentoring, he would like to give his mentees an outline of what life outside of school is like. "I think the end of studies means mainly that you start to look after yourself. Everything starts to become more complicated and life may not look as beautiful as the student years." He is happy to share his experiences, show that you can work your way up from a low position to the top and support his mentee in making decisions about his future.
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MICHAL JEREMIÁŠ
Role: Head of Department
Area: Plasma Physics
Employer: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics
What can I help my mentee with?
- writing grant applications
- management skills
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Michal came to work for the Academy of Sciences somewhat by accident when, after a study trip to Spain and the loss of all his computer data, he began a hasty search for a topic to cover in his undergraduate thesis. The opportunity presented itself at the Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Chemical Processes, with which he had worked on various projects throughout his studies up to his PhD studies. He completed his PostDoc at Cranfield University in the UK and, on his return to the Czech Republic, was offered a position as Head of Department at the Institute of Plasma Physics. He is now in his fifth year there. He is responsible for the running of the entire department, which consists of ten colleagues. In addition to his managerial work, he writes grant applications, searches for new topics to work on or institutions and potential partners for collaboration.
He sees great potential in mentoring and working with students. “I would like to show students the reality outside of university. So that they learn how to function in the real world while studying, because this can give them suggestions on what to focus on more specifically in university." He says internships and industry experience make it easier for students to navigate the job market and life. He recommends "not clinging to ideas, but going out to meet different opportunities".
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MILAN BITTNER
Role: Malthouse manager, technologist, brewer
Area: Brewing
Employer: Plzeňský Prazdroj; former: Pivovary Lokbowicz, Pivovar Kácov
What can I help my mentee with?
- self-development ( personal vision, growth mindset, habit building)
- leadership
- lean six sigma projects
- malting, brewing, food production - systems
LinkedIn profil
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Milan completed his studies at the Institute of Fermentation Chemistry and Bioengineering (now the Institute of Biotechnology) under the guidance of Prof. Brányik. During his PhD studies, during which he focused on the topic of microbial anaerobic contaminants in beer, Milan had many activities beyond his scientific work. He rose to the position of vice-president in the Academic Senate, and during his tenure he and a group of friends were instrumental in reviving the tradition of Kachekran as we know it today. "We were always in it for the fun. While running for senate, we put up banners around the school with pictures of people we needed to run for senate to get support for Kachekran." He also took it upon himself to nurture the lab's team spirit in addition to his scientific work. These activities fundamentally shaped him, and through them he learned how to work with people, which he always enjoyed. "I always wanted to make the people around me happy, and I liked to make things fun for them. You can take a positive approach to managing people, you don't just have to be a tough boss, but asking colleagues what they need and getting to know them personally and understanding their motivation - that's my vision."
After completing his PhD in 2015, Milan joined the Pivovary Lobkowicz Group as a technologist, which at the time had seven breweries operating under it. During his three years there, Milan worked on various technological topics in all seven breweries, gaining a lot of experience and insight into beer production. This was followed by a short experience as a brewer at Pivovar Kácov, during which he was offered the position of malthouse manager at Plzeňský Prazdroj, where he has been working for almost 4 years now. Milan manages a team of eighteen people, but overall he is responsible for the coordination of about 45 people from the technologists to the maintenance and sanitation staff. The malting plant produces 88,000 tonnes of malt a year, which is enough for about five and a half million hectolitres of beer, roughly a quarter of the Czech beer production. Milan is responsible for ensuring the quality of production, running the operation and managing the people.
"I'm learning to be more of a leader than a manager, I try to be in contact with my people on a daily basis so I know what they are doing. We also try to brainstorm together to find out what makes the team tick and what motivates them to build a team vision." Milan engages in mentoring with the motivation to push himself further and grow. He also mentions that he has two important mentors in his life who have helped him - Prof. Brányik - director of VUPS and former production director from Pivovary Lobkowicz, Ing., Jiří Famera.
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ONDŘEJ ZBYTEK
Role: CEO & startup founder, innovator, electrical engineer
Area: Tech Startups, Fundraising, Smart Indoor Gardening, Smart Cities, Particle Physics, Education
Emlpoyer: Plantee, Nuledo
What can I help my mentee with?
- how to turn technology and ideas into a viable business
- how to validate a business plan
- how to start a company and how to find an investor for a startup
- how to lead a company in the first few months
- which technologies to cultivate for your product and which to abandon
- rapid prototyping
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Ondra graduated from FEL CTU, but already during high school he started his first big project, the development and production of Czech-made cloud chambers, unique devices for observing radioactivity. At the age of 20, he built his device for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, becoming the youngest business partner of the institution. His startup Nuledo has delivered its equipment to more than 10 institutions across Europe, including the Cosmocaixa science museum in Barcelona and the Institute of Physics of the CAS. The latest order in particle physics was the delivery of the world's largest cloud chamber to Luxembourg in 2020. Then it was time for Ondrej to move on.
Ondřej has been an avid plant grower since childhood and has always been attracted to experimenting with more challenging species. He used his growing experience and knowledge from the development of cloud chambers and started craving a smart home greenhouse. He found no solution on the current market that could meet all his requirements. Therefore he founded Plantee Innovations, a startup that develops and manufactures the unique Plantee indoor greenhouse for growing plants at home. "I knew I wasn't the only one interested in such a product. Since I have a lot of experience in developing a hardware product riddled with sensors and other technologies, I immediately thought I could develop a smart home greenhouse myself and offer it to everyone in the world," he explains how he got from particle physics to growing plants.
The Plantee device combines many disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology and electrical engineering. Ondra Zbytek is thus the archetype of an universal entrepreneur who has to navigate among many fields–not only technical ones. In 2021, he and his company launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, where he raised almost two and a half million Czech crowns for his indoor greenhouse. In addition to his entrepreneurial achievements, in 2018 he was awarded Her Majesty’s Ambassador Nick Archer's Young Person of the Year Award and was granted the associated Eva Jiřičná Award.
Ondra would like to offer his knowledge of bootstrapping a startup and attracting an investor to the students of VŠCHT as part of his mentoring. He says that "the world of innovation and startups is completely different from the university or from employment. Information and contacts are hard to come by and if you have never run a business or sought funding for your project, it is terribly easy to get confused and lose months or years of time."
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TOMÁŠ PETREK
Role: Executive Director
Area: Marketing
Employer: GoBigname; former: Mettler Toledo GmbH
What can I help my mentee with?
- create your own career strategy
- project management
- using your time during your studies to be as satisfied as possible with your career path
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During enrolment day at UCT Prague, Tomáš was interested in the presentation of the IAESTE association, which he decided to join on his first day. He sees the experience he gained in the association as crucial for his future career direction. It gave him the chance to try working on projects, marketing and negotiating with companies. He worked his way up to the leadership of the local centre and to the position of coordinator of the job fair iKariéra, the biggest event at the school at the time, with six months of preparation, which was a turning point for him. After graduating from UCT, Tomáš tried different jobs to see if his path would lead him to materials chemistry and engineering or rather to management, which he was close to thanks to his activity in IAESTE.
An important experience for him was a product-marketing position in Zurich in Mettler Toledo, a multinational company producing laboratory equipment. Within this position he used the knowledge he gained in UCT, but at the same time this experience led him further down the management path. He currently works as the managing director of the branding studio GoBigname. They help companies create visual identities and names, their goal is to help local companies gain success in the global marketplace. So even though he eventually left the field of chemistry, he says that what he took away from UCT, is an invaluable ability to think analytically that he uses every day at work.
For several years now, Tomáš has been devoting his free time to imparting experience and developing students by organising workshops and lecturing at university conferences. His mission is to help people find what they enjoy and learn how to use it. "We live in a world where we spend 70% of our time at work. I want to meet as many people as possible who have found themselves doing something they really want to do."
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VÁCLAV BYSTRIANSKÝ
Role: Project Manager, Researcher
Area: Energetics and Hydrogen Technologies
Employer: Horizon Educational; former: ORLEN UniCRE, Czech National Bank
What can I help my mentee with?
- Hydrogen production and utilization
- the pitfalls of modern and conventional energy
- storytelling and effective data presentation
- how to discover and use your strengths
- how to overcome fear and manage stress
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Václav's first career experience was working for a big event company, which he got thanks to a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert he attended. It was a crucial experience for him - he learned that one can organize the work of a team to almost perfection and that he was comfortable seeing results immediately after the work was done. Václav studied Environmental Chemistry and Fuels Technology, and he has been interested in energetics since he was a kid. During his studies he went to study in Sweden within the Erasmus Program. "There I realised how great it is to work in a team where everyone has a role. I realised that everyone didn't have to know everything, but it is important to bring people with different skills together in a way that complements each other synergistically. What I learned about myself was that I didn't have to be the smartest person in the group, but I was able to get things across to others in a way that was understandable, so I ended up presenting most of the projects we worked on."
As part of his master's thesis, he worked with CV Řež and the company ČEZ, and eventually, by chance, got a job as a material engineer in the Czech National Bank. During his studies, he was involved in popularising chemistry, and after graduation, he also worked in this field professionally. He became the coordinator of the educational programme at Horizon Educational for the Czech Republic. As part of the programme, teams of high school students build their own hydrogen-powered cars, which they then race against each other. "I am a teacher, then a manager and sometimes a business developer when we are looking for new partners to work with. But most of all, the teacher role fulfills me. It's great to see younger students enjoying the race. However the fun doesn't come for free: first you have to put something together, it usually doesn't work, so you have to keep working on it and stay focused. As a result, you drive a car, and you completely miss the fact that you actually learned basic electrical engineering, programming or 3D printing within the process." The project started in the Czech Republic and the USA, and thanks to Václav, the idea was spread to 13 countries around the world in four years with the help of about 500 teams and 3,000 students. Václav's role was, among other things, to travel abroad and pass on the know-how to local teams and help them get the project off the ground.
Another important professional experience is his two years at ORLEN UniCRE as a project manager for hydrogen technology development. His role here was basically the same - to be the initiator and driving force for a completely new sector. "I was a bit of a manager and a bit of a researcher, going between the stacks in my uniform and then back to management meetings. I learned a lot, my head was totally occupied because I had to think about problems in detail and that was great."
He wants to become a mentor because he enjoys working with people and sees it as an opportunity to learn from each other.
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VIKTOR JANOUŠKOVEC
Role: Director
Area: Distribution, Chemical Industry
Employer: Brenntag; former: Lach-Ner s.r.o., Tesla Hloubětín, Synthesia, a.s.
What can I help my mentee with?
- insight into the operation of a chemical business
- detailed insight into the complex process of chemical distribution, including different positions
- insight into the functioning of a multinational corporation
- insight into different career opportunities
- networking
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Viktor started as a salesman in an analytical laboratory, where his day consisted of calling customers according to a list and soliciting orders. Gradually he worked his way up to director in the company. After eight years, he decided it was time for a change and went to Tesla Hloubětín, where he managed an independent water treatment plant for a year. He then moved out of the industry - for three years he worked for a company producing containers - but eventually returned to chemistry. He realised that he wanted to stay with it: "One has such a tendency to denigrate what you learn at school. Often you don't remember a lot of things anymore, but it's there somewhere in the back of your mind, the context. You know the environment, you keep meeting the people you know from uni and somehow it all fits together." He worked his way up through a position as a distributor of laboratory chemicals to Synthesia, where he was plant manager, and finally to Brenntag, where he is still managing director today.
He doesn't see anything wrong with changing jobs. One should not be afraid of change; if something does not suit one's current position or company, one should explore other possibilities and with them one's potential. On the other hand, he points out that it is good to be able to describe the reason for these changes and turn them to your advantage.
He feels content in his current position because every day brings new challenges and knowledge. He describes himself as "not a big scientist" and doesn't want to know every detail of a single area. On the contrary, he is comfortable with having an overview of multiple things horizontally and being able to connect them. For him, chemistry, technology and business meet at Brenntag. In addition, he handles personal and administrative matters in the company.
He sees potential in mentoring to further promote chemistry, even among people who are already studying it. "Students should know that chemistry is not just lab work and scientific activity. It is also business or manufacturing, in short, it can be applied in all areas of human activity." Viktor is a member of the board of the Chemical Industry Association and vice-president of the Chemical Traders' Association and sees the promotion of chemistry as a commitment as well. He is happy to support people with a genuine interest and in return learn about the current generation of students and young employees - what their priorities and expectations are, which he sees as important incentives for further development of the industry and jobs.
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YANNIS VASILOPOULOS
Role: Digital Workflow Engineer
Area: Data science, Edge Computing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
Employer: Siemens, UCT Prague
Language: English only
What can I help my mentee with?
- chemical engineering (pharmaceuticals, transport phenomena, simulations)
- software engineering
- get an insight into the corporate world
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Yannis comes from Greece, where he obtained a bachelor degree in Physics and a masters degree in Chemical Engineering; during his master studies he was participating in a research program, mostly dealing with fluids and mass transfer simulations. After finishing his studies, he became a private tutor for teaching math and physics and spent a year working as a research assistant in the National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens. He participated in a project dealing with the simulation of blood and nanoparticles flow in “digital twin” arteries. Back then, Yannis saw himself in academia so he pursued his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at UCT Prague. His work concerned the modelling of unit operations in the pharmaceutical industry, and collaborated with several researchers from academia and industry, such as the Academy of Sciences, and Zentiva.
During his free time he had been learning more about programming, data science and machine learning and realized that he would like to explore other opportunities outside academia. At the moment Yannis is employed by Siemens as a Digital Workflow Engineer. He is mostly working on Industrial Edge, the Siemens Edge Computing Platform, as well as on web applications development. The topic of industrial edge computing is at the forefront of Industry 4.0, and Yannis’ job deals with the process of leveraging data from production machines, tools, processes and plants and creating insights for optimized processes, products, and improved maintenance.
Why does Yannis want to become a mentor? During his academic path, he felt many times lost. He thinks that if you are a Ph.D. student or a researcher in academia and you don’t collaborate with any company outside, you probably isolate yourself from the knowledge instead of expanding. “Because there might be solutions out there that people in academia don’t know about or the other way around. This picture, I think the broad picture, was unclear to me, and so was the career path.” He would like to help someone, with his knowledge and experience, that he has gained.
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ZUZANA POLÁKOVÁ
Role: Head of the Strategic Department
Area: Education, Public Sector
Employer: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
What can I help my mentee with?
- strategic planning
- creating conceptual documents
- formulating problems and finding solutions
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Zuzana studied social and cultural anthropology, which gave her a certain world view and way of thinking about society and otherness within it. Already during her studies she was involved in several applied projects, for example, she participated in field research on the topic of perceptions of safety in excluded localities. She has learned to see difference as an asset and an opportunity to enrich whatever work one does. After her studies, she went to Peru for a few months and upon her return she joined an event company that organizes large scientific and medical congresses. After two years, she continued her further studies in public and social policy and joined the Strategic Department of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, where she became head of the department three years later.
She is now in charge of a team of 11 people. The department's most important responsibility is formulating strategic and development priorities for the higher education sector. In cooperation with universities, they use methodological, legislative and financial tools to implement these priorities for higher education in the future so that all universities are included in them. For example, a strategic plan or various development programmes can be mentioned as specific tools.
Zuzana is happy to help her mentees learn the principles of strategic planning - from formulating goals and allocating certain tools to achieve them, to evaluating the impact of solutions. "Basically, the same techniques are used in whatever strategy or development activity you formulate, both within science and research, or perhaps in a company."
Another area in which Zuzana will be happy to share her experiences or, conversely, listen to them, is the position of a young woman in leadership. In this role, she sometimes finds herself in situations where she is confronted with the gender and age perspective of her peers. "We have an awful lot of insecurities. It's important to learn not to be afraid to express insecurities or ask for help. It puts you in a vulnerable position, but I've come to understand that it's an especially important skill for someone where you can't tell at first glance that they have it in them and that it's the only way to develop and do your job well."
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Valuable experience during your studies
The mentoring programme allows you to gain insight into the environment of companies and institutions or discover what a career in science entails already during your studies.
This is an effective method of learning and development that can greatly help you clarify your career direction and set long-term goals. In addition to gaining valuable experience and contacts, a mentor can help you tackle various academic and personal challenges and obstacles.
Working with a mentor is flexible in terms of time, the scope and format of the meeting depends on your individual agreement.
The capacity of the programme is limited! Do not hesitate to sign up!
Schedule
- Sign up for the programme.
- After signing up, you will participate in a group preparatory workshop where you will clarify your direction and goals for communicating with your mentor. That way, you can then choose the one that will be most beneficial to you.
- You can choose a mentor from those on offer or come to the coordinator with your own proposal. It may happen that several students are interested in one mentor. That's why the final pairing is done through a competition system - after the initial workshop you will have the space to film a short video message(we will discuss tips and tricks during the workshop), and then it will be up to the mentors to decide who they want to work with. If your cooperation does not work, we will try to find you a full replacement.
- Subsequently, 3-4 months of meetings take place. The frequency and content depend purely on the individual agreement between mentor and mentee. We recommend seeing each other at least twice a month. In addition to interviews and meetings, you can visit the mentor in their workplace, observe them at work or get involved in a specific project.
- The programme is concluded with feedback collection and joint networking.
If you have any questions, please contact Tereza Picková, the programme coordinator.
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The mentoring programme will provide you with a platform for networking and gaining experience in your professional and personal life.
A mentor will help you clarify where you can advance in your career, what goals to set or how to overcome difficult obstacles. In addition to professional matters, you can also discuss with your mentor issues on a personal level, such as how to reconcile your scientific career with your personal life.
Working with a mentor is flexible in terms of time, the scope and format of the meeting depends on your individual agreement.
Postgraduate mentoring is open to all current PhD students, staff and alumni of UCT Prague.
The capacity of the programme is limited so, do not hesitate to sign up!
Schedule
- Sign up for the programme.
- After signing up, you will collective informative workshop with the coordinator. Together we summarise your expactations and your goals, which you want to successfully achieve during this mentoring program.
- Choosing a mentor should reflect your individual needs. You can choose one yourself or in cooperation with the programme coordinator. You can also find inspiration in our offer.
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- The programme is concluded with the collection of feedback and joint networking.
If you have any questions, please contact Tereza Picková, the programme coordinator.
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Why become a mentor?
The role of the mentor grants you an opportunity to learn how to pass your expertize on less experienced ambitious students and young scientists.
You will have a chance to learn from your mentee as well.
Mentoring is designed to be as flexible as possible; the frequency, dates and form of meetings is up to you and your mentee.
You will get an opportunity to meet with like-minded people from various professions on a networking event.
If you are interested, please contact Tereza Picková, the project coordinator:
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