After graduating from the Secondary Industrial School of Chemistry in
Brno (1987), Pavel Karásek continued studies in physical and
analytical chemistry at the University of Chemical Technology in
Pardubice (1992). In the same year he joined the Institute of
Analytical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and in 2002 he
successfully completed his Ph.D. studies and obtained a Ph.D. degree
in analytical chemistry. At the beginning of his career, Pavel was
mainly engaged in the study of extraction of solid and liquid samples
by supercritical fluids, research of new techniques for the trapping
of analytes after extraction and measurement of physicochemical data
(partition coefficients in the CO2-analyte-water system). In addition
to methodology development, he has also been actively involved in the
design of laboratory instruments operating at high temperatures and
pressures. Several instruments have been developed, e.g., LIZARD2000,
OnePSE, FastPSE and a unique laboratory apparatus for direct SFE
extraction of liquid samples. In the last 10 years, his research and
design activities have been mainly focused on the field of
"supercritical water" and its application in analytical or
materials science. The results of his scientific work are regularly
published in foreign impacted journals (66 times) and in the form of
conference presentations. Since 1993 he has been a member of research
teams of many grant projects (24 times), in 1995-1997 he was a member
of the team of the international Copernicus project. Pavel was a
member of the Scientific Council of the institute in 2004-2006,
vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the institute (2012-2022),
he worked as a reviewer for the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, a
member of the dissertation defense committee and currently he is a
reviewer for scientific journals, e.g., J. Sep. Sci., J. Chromatogr.
A. etc. He has been a member of the Institute Council since
2022.
