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Prof. RNDr. Vladimír Baumruk, DrSc.

Born: Dec. 23, 1953, Praha
  • Affiliation: Fyzikální ústav UK, Ke Karlovu 5
  • Room: F 251, 2nd floor
  • Phone: +420 221 911 473
  • Fax: +420 224 922 797

Fields of interest and research experience:

  • Optical spectroscopy of complex molecules, mainly biomolecules (primarily nucleic acids and proteins), determination of their structure, conformation and interactions
  • Knowledge of methods of optical spectroscopy – electronic and vibrational, spectroscopy of optically active molecules, special techniques in Raman spectroscopy (resonance Raman spectroscopy, surface–enhanced Raman spectroscopy – SERS, low temperature spectroscopy), nonlinear techniques in optical spectroscopy
  • Development and application of new optical and spectroscopic techniques in science and industry
  • Vibrational optical activity (Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity) and its application to the study of peptide and protein conformation
  • Laser velocimetry (L2F and LDV)

Long term stays:
2006 visiting professor BioMoCeTi, Universite Paris 13 (1 month)
2001 visiting professor, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France – (4 months)
2000 visiting professor, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France – (4 months)
1999 visiting professor, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France – (4 months)
1998 visiting professor, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France – (1 month)
1997 senior research fellow, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France (Prof. Pierre–Yves Turpin) – structure of short oligoribonucleotides forming hairpins by means of NMR, optical spectroscopy and molecular modeling (4 months)
1994 Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris VI, France (Prof. Pierre–Yves Turpin) – UV resonance Raman spectroscopy of oligonucleotides (1 month within a framework of a TEMPUS program)
1992 ‐ 93 postdoctoral research associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (Prof. Timothy A. Keiderling) – vibrational optical activity of biomolecules (2 years)
1985,1986 Department of General Physics and Wave Processes, Moscow State University (Prof. Nikolai I. Koroteev) – non linear spectroscopy of biomolecules (1 month)
1982 Department of General Physics and Wave Processes, Moscow State University (Prof. Nikolai I. Koroteev) – Raman and CARS spectroscopy of biomolecules (3 months)