Dr. Ales Panacek studied Physical Chemistry at the Palacký University Olomouc (1997–2002). In 2006, he earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the same university. After his Habilitation at the Palacký University Olomouc, he was appointed as Titular Associate Professor in 2015. Since 2005, he has worked at the Palacký Univesity Olomouc, at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Science, and as a senior researcher at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, which has been established in the faculty. He has experience from several international stays: at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv (Israel), at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago (U.S.A.), and at Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA) of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). His research topics mainly include the synthesis and characterization (TEM, DLS) of metal nanoparticles and nanocomposites, biomedical and environmental applications of metal nanoparticles and nanocomposites, application of nanoparticles and nanocomposites in heterogeneous catalysis, and application of nanoparticles and nanocomposites in Raman spectroscopy.