doc. RNDr. Miroslav Medveď, PhD.

Tel: 58 563 4767, E-mail: miroslav.medved@upol.cz, Room: 3.008

Research interests

Non-linear optical properties of medium sized molecules and complexes (electron correlation, vibrational, and solvent effects)
Electronic transitions (absorption, fluorescence, solvatochromism) and molecular properties in excited states
Chemical modifications of graphene derivatives

1989 - 1994 - M.Sc. Physical chemistry, Comenius University, Bratislava
1994 - 2002 - Ph.D. Chemical physics, Comenius University, Bratislava
2001 - RNDr. Environmental chemistry, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
2008 - doc. (associate prof.) Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Comenius University, Bratislava

1996 - 2005 - Researcher, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
2005 - 2009 - Assistant professor, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
2008 - 2016 - Head of the Department of Chemistry, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
2009 - now - Associate professor, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica
2016 - now - Researcher (part-time), Palacký University, Olomouc (group of prof. Otyepka)

1999 - Stay at Max Planck Institute für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany; group of Prof. G. H. D. Diercksen
2002 - 2003 - OSTC-SSTC Research Fellowship in CTA, FUNDP, Namur, Belgium; group of Prof. J.-M. André
2005 - RTN stay at NHRC, Athens and ICEHT, Patras, Greece; groups of Prof. S. Couris and Dr. M. Papadopoulos
2013, 2015 - Stays at CEISAM, Université de Nantes, France; group of Prof. Denis Jacquemin

Prof. Denis Jacquemin, Dr. Adèle Laurent, Université de Nantes, France
Dr. Robert Zaleśny, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Dr. Heribert Reis, National Hellenic Research Centre, Athens, Greece
Groups of Prof. Miroslav Urban and Prof. Jozef Noga, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Drahomír Hnyk, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ASCR, Řež u Prahy
and others

Leonardo da Vinci (EU) - Development of Educational Modules in Environmental Chemistry, 2000-2001
APVT (SK) - Development and applications of the methodology for evaluating the nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules, 2004-2006
VEGA (SK) - Study of nonlinear optical properties of conjugated oligomers containing carbon, nitrogen and boron, 2009-2011
APVV-SK-PL - Long-range corrected DFT calculations of nonlinear optical properties of extended molecular systems, 2010-2011
APVV (SK) - Interactions in bio and nanosystems, 2011-2014
COST - COnvergent Distributed Environment for Computational Spectroscopy (CODECS), 2010-2014
APVV-SK-FR - Solvent effects on excited state molecular properties: Bridging Experiment and Theory (BridgET), 2016-2017
APVV (SK) - Noncovalent interactions in systems of increasing complexity, 2016-2019
COST - MOLecules In Motion (MOLIM), 2015-2019

Bakandritsos A, Kadam RG, Kumar P, Zoppellaro G, Medved M, Tuček J, Montini T, Tomanec O, Andrýsková P, Drahoš B, Varma RS, Otyepka M, Gawande MB, Fornasiero P, Zbořil R: Mixed‐Valence Single‐Atom Catalyst Derived from Functionalized Graphene. Adv. Mater., 31(17), 1900323, 2019. (DOI)
Bares H, Aristides B, Medved M, Ugolotti J, Jakubec P, Tomanec O, Kalytchuk S, Zbořil R, Otyepka M: Bimodal role of fluorine atoms in fluorographene chemistry opens a simple way toward double functionalization of graphene. Carbon, 145, 251-258, 2019. (DOI)
Chronopoulos DD, Medved M, Blonski P, Nováček Z, Jakubec P, Tomanec O, Bakandritsos A, Novotná V, Zbořil R, Otyepka M: Alkynylation of graphene via the Sonogashira C–C cross-coupling reaction on fluorographene. Chem. Commun., 55, 1088-1091 , 2019. (DOI)
Hoorens MWH, Medved M, Laurent AD, Di Donato M, Fanetti S, Slappendel L, Hilbers M, Feringa BL, Buma WJ, Szymanski W: Iminothioindoxyl as a molecular photoswitch with 100 nm band separation in the visible range. Nat. Commun., 10, 2390, 2019. (DOI)

Lerch MM, Di Donato M, Laurent AD, Medved M, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Lapini A, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Szymański W, Feringa BL: Solvent Effects on the Actinic Step of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct Photoswitching. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 130(27), 8195-8200, 2018. (DOI)
Lerch MM, Medved M, Lapini A, Laurent AD, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Szymanski W, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Di Donato M, Feringa BL: Tailoring Photoisomerization Pathways in Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts: The Role of the Hydroxyl Group. J. Phys. Chem. A, 122(4), 955–964, 2018. (DOI)
Matochová D, Medved M, Aristides B, Steklý T, Zbořil R, Otyepka M: 2D Chemistry - Chemical Control of Graphene Derivatization. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9(13), 3580–3585, 2018. (DOI)
Medved M, Zoppellaro G, Ugolotti J, Matochová D, Lazar P, Pospíšil T, Bakandritsos A, Tuček J, Zbořil R, Otyepka M: Reactivity of fluorographene is triggered by point defects: beyond the perfect 2D world. Nanoscale, 10, 4696-4707, 2018. (DOI)
Tuček J, Holá K, Zoppellaro G, Blonski P, Langer R, Medved M, Susi T, Otyepka M, Zbořil R: Zigzag sp2 Carbon Chains Passing through an sp3 Framework: A Driving Force toward Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Graphene ACS Nano, 12(12), 12847–12859, 2018. (DOI)

Di Donato M, Lerch MM, Lapini A, Laurent AD, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Ihrig SP, Medved M, Jacquemin D, Szymański W, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Feringa BL: Shedding Light on the Photoisomerization Pathway of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139(44), 15596–15599, 2017. (DOI)
Medved M, Demissie T, McKee M, Hnyk D: The Behavior of a Paramagnetic System in Electric and Magnetic Fields as Exemplified by Revisiting Li@B10H14. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 12229-12236, 2017. (DOI)