Petr Novák (chemist)
Petr Novák (* 1956 in Brno ) is a Czech chemist ( electrochemistry , lithium-ion batteries ).
Novák studied chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague with a degree in 1980 and a doctorate in 1983 in technical inorganic chemistry. Until 1988 he was at the J. Heyrovský Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the Academy of Sciences in Prague and in 1988/89 at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague in technical inorganic chemistry and from 1990 was group leader at the J. Heyrovský Institute. From 1991 he was project manager and from 1995 group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute . Since 2009 he has headed the electrochemical energy storage department there. In 2002 he became a lecturer at the ETH Zurich and in 2009 adjunct professor. In 2008 he refused an appointment to KIT .
Among other things, he deals with the development of large lithium-ion batteries for automobiles.
In 2016 he became a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry , of which he had been Vice President since 2008 and of which he received the Tajima Prize in 1988. In 2005 he received the Technology Prize from the Electrochemical Society's Batteries Department.
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| SURNAME | Novák, Petr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |