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David Palecek. Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics in 2016/01/28 by Lunds universitet Kemicentrum, Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics in 2016/01/28 by Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta and Magister in Chemical physics in 2011/06/15 by Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta. Published 16 articles in journals. Participated in 3 event(s). Has received 2 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Other in 1 project(s) and Post-doc in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Physical Sciences with emphasis on Optics and Exact Sciences with emphasis on Physical Sciences with emphasis on Molecular Physics. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: nonlinear spectroscopy; time-resolved transmission; time-resolved fluorescence; 2DIR; FTIR; pulsed lasers; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
David Palecek

Citation names

  • Palecek, David
  • Palecek, D

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9F16-3ACF-D30F
ORCID iD
0009-0003-9328-8540
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=uIFnHM8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Optics
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Molecular Physics
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Czech (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
German Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/10/01 - 2016/01/28
Concluded
 Chemical Physics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Lunds universitet Kemicentrum, Sweden

Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Czech Republic
"Quantum Coherence for Light-harvesing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/10/01 - 2011/06/15
Concluded
 Chemical physics (Magister)
Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Czech Republic
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2021/02/28 Postdoc (Research) University of Cambridge Department of Physics, United Kingdom
2016/03/07 - 2018/08/31 Research Assistant (Research) Universität Zürich Institut für Chemie, Switzerland
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2009 - 2011 Excitation quenching in bacteriochlorophyl c aggregates
87010
Master Student Fellow
Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Czech Republic
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current Next generation scale-crossing imaging technologies for research infrastructures
10.3030/101094250
Post-doc
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2021/03/01 Excited electronic states in extended molecular systems
670405
Post-doc
University of Cambridge Department of Physics, United Kingdom
Concluded
2016/03/07 - 2018/08/31 Light to Chemical Energy Conversion (LightChEC).
University Research Priority Program
Post-doc

Other

Designation Funders
2018/09/01 - 2021/03/01 Photon Management for Solar Energy Harvesting with Hybrid Excitonics
758826
Other
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Félix, Rute C.; Palecek, David; Teresa M Correia. Corresponding author: Teresa M Correia. "Colour science with lasers, gummy bears, and rainbows". Sci. sch. 66 (2024):
    Open access • Published
  2. Sarah R. E. Orsborne; Jeffrey Gorman; Leah R. Weiss; Akshay Sridhar; Naitik A. Panjwani; Giorgio Divitini; Peter Budden; et al. "Photogeneration of Spin Quintet Triplet–Triplet Excitations in DNA-Assembled Pentacene Stacks". Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 9 (2023): 5431-5438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c13743.
    10.1021/jacs.2c13743
  3. Alexander Sneyd; Tomoya Fukui; David Palecek; Suryoday Prodhan; Isabella Wagner; Yifan Zhang; jooyoung sung; et al. "Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization". Science Advances 7 32 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abh4232.
    10.1126/sciadv.abh4232
  4. Egle Bukarte; David Palecek; Petra Edlund; Sebastian Westenhoff; Donatas Zigmantas. "Dynamic band-shift signal in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy: A case of bacterial reaction center". The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 11 (2021): 115102-115102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0033805.
    10.1063/5.0033805
  5. Ture Hinrichsen; Christopher Chan; Chao Ma; David Palecek; Alexander Gillett; Chen, Shangshang; Xinhui Zou; et al. "Long-lived and disorder-free charge transfer states enable endothermic charge separation in efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells". Nature Communications 11 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19332-5.
    10.1038/s41467-020-19332-5
  6. Egle Bukarte; Anja Haufe; David Palecek; Claudia Büchel; Donatas Zigmantas. "Revealing vibronic coupling in chlorophyll c1 by polarization-controlled 2D electronic spectroscopy". Chemical Physics 530 (2020): 110643-110643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.110643.
    10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.110643
  7. David Palecek; Petra Edlund; Emil Gustavsson; Sebastian Westenhoff; Donatas Zigmantas. "Potential pitfalls of the early-time dynamics in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy". The Journal of Chemical Physics 151 2 (2019): 024201-024201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5079817.
    10.1063/1.5079817
  8. David Palecek; Donatas Zigmantas. "Double-crossed polarization transient grating for distinction and characterization of coherences". Optics Express 26 25 (2018): 32900-32900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.032900.
    10.1364/oe.26.032900
  9. David Palecek; Gökçen Tek; Jinggang Lan; marcella iannuzzi; Peter Hamm. "Characterization of the Platinum–Hydrogen Bond by Surface-Sensitive Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 6 (2018): 1254-1259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00310.
    10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00310
  10. David Palecek; Petra Edlund; Sebastian Westenhoff; Donatas Zigmantas. "Quantum coherence as a witness of vibronically hot energy transfer in bacterial reaction center". Science Advances 3 9 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603141.
    10.1126/sciadv.1603141
  11. Luca Dall'Osto; Stefano Cazzaniga; Mauro Bressan; David Palecek; Karel Židek; Krishna K. Niyogi; Graham R. Fleming; Donatas Zigmantas; roberto bassi. "Two mechanisms for dissipation of excess light in monomeric and trimeric light-harvesting complexes". Nature Plants 3 5 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.33.
    10.1038/nplants.2017.33
  12. Stefanos Carlström; Jana Preclíková; Eleonora Lorek; Esben Witting Larsen; Christoph M Heyl; David Palecek; Donatas Zigmantas; et al. "Spatially and spectrally resolved quantum path interference with chirped driving pulses". New Journal of Physics 18 12 (2016): 123032-123032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa511f.
    10.1088/1367-2630/aa511f
  13. E. W. Larsen; S. Carlström; E. Lorek; C. M. Heyl; D. Palecek; K. J. Schafer; A. L’Huillier; D. Zigmantas; J. Mauritsson. "Sub-cycle ionization dynamics revealed by trajectory resolved, elliptically-driven high-order harmonic generation". Scientific Reports 6 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39006.
    10.1038/srep39006
  14. James Lim; David Palecek; Felipe Caycedo-Soler; Craig N. Lincoln; Javier Prior; Hans von Berlepsch; Susana F. Huelga; et al. "Vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester". Nature Communications 6 1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8755.
    10.1038/ncomms8755
  15. Eleonora Lorek; E. W. Larsen; C. M. Heyl; S. Carlström; D. Palecek; D. Zigmantas; Johan Mauritsson. "High-order harmonic generation using a high-repetition-rate turnkey laser". Review of Scientific Instruments 85 12 (2014): 123106-123106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4902819.
    10.1063/1.4902819
  16. David Palecek; Roman Dedic; Jan Alster; Jan Hála. "Low-temperature spectroscopy of bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates". Photosynthesis Research 119 3 (2014): 331-338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-013-9955-6.
    10.1007/s11120-013-9955-6
  17. Sebastian Westenhoff; Palecek, David; Petra Edlund; Philip Smith; Donatas Zigmantas. "Coherent Picosecond Exciton Dynamics in a Photosynthetic Reaction Center". Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 40 (2012): 16484-16487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja3065478.
    10.1021/ja3065478
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2016 Coherence Shift Mechanism Explains Long-Lived Beatings in Bacterial Reaction Centers. Coherent multidimensional spectroscopy
(Netherlands)
2014 Early Energy Transfer Dynamics in Mutated Photosynthetic BRC 2nd Sweden-Korea Joint Symposium on Advanced Spectroscopy: Light Capture and Conversion Processes in Biological and Artificial Systems
(Sweden)
2014 Early Energy Transfer Dynamics in Mutated Photosynthetic BRC Nordic Femtochemistry 2014
(Lithuania)
2013 Coherent Dynamics in Bacterial Reaction Center Investigated by Polarization Resolved Coherent 2D Spectroscopy Light-harvesting processes
(Germany)
2012 Long-lived Excitonic Coherences in Bacterial Reaction Center Nordic Femtochemistry 2012
(Sweden)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/10/15 - Current Python programming club at CCMAR/UAlg to learn, teach and connect people across science, technology and industry. (2023/10/15)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2012 - 2012 Poster presentation: Hole-Burning Spectroscopy of Excitation Energy Transfer and Excitation Quenching in Artificial Bacteriochlorophyll Aggregates
Conference
 11th International Conference on Hole Burning, Single Molecule and Related Spectroscopies: Science and Applications
2012 - 2012 Poster presentation: Polarization Electronic 2D Spectroscopy Distinguishes Electronic and Vibrational Coherences
Conference
 6th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy
2010 - 2010 Poster presentation: The Role of Quinones in Artificial Chlorosome-Like Antennae Probed by Hole-Burning spectroscopy
Congress
 15th International Congress of Photosynthesis, Beijing 2010, and satellite meeting Photosynthetic Light Harvesting in Tianjin

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/01/28 - Current Implementation of python into high-school curriculum at Agrupamento de Escolas Pinheiro e Rosa.

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/10/01 - 2018/04/01 Teaching assistant of Photochemistry course. (Bachelor) Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2014/10/01 - 2015/04/01 Teaching assistant of Molecular spectroscopy course. (Magister) Lunds universitet Kemiska institutionen, Sweden
Distinctions

Award

2015 Conference grant
Vetenskapsradet, Sweden
2009 Student grant
Univerzita Karlova Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Czech Republic