Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He has a broad spectrum of professional interest: development of new methods for the analysis of a broad spectrum of compounds by capillary electrophoresis and chromatography and their applications to the analysis of biological (physiological) functions of the organism. In practice, he uses the coupling of capillary electrophoresis and chromatography with mass spectrometry and their application to the study of proteins, peptides and other important physiological compounds; the analysis of steroids and their metabolites in organisms and native and modified proteins; the physiology and chemistry of connective tissue and their cross-links; the study of the nonenzymatic posttranslational modification of proteins; the analysis of natural pigments.