prof. Ing. Petr Kočí, Ph.D.

Education and professional experience

• 2001: MSc in Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague
  MSc Thesis "Modelling of non-stationary behaviour of monolithic reactors"
• 2003,2004: Student fellowship, Imperial College London, UK
• 2005: PhD in Chemical Engineering, UCT Prague
  PhD Thesis "Catalytic monolith reactors with surface deposition of gas components - Applications in automobile exhaust gas conversion"
• 2005: Fellow researcher at Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz), Stuttgart, Germany
  Modelling of exhaust gas aftertreatment systems
• 2006-2008: Post-doctoral fellowship, UCT Prague
• 2009-2011: Research associate at UCT Prague
• 2010: Guest Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA,
  Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research Center
• 2012-2014: Assistant professor at UCT Prague
• 2015-2020: Associate professor at UCT Prague
  Habilitation Thesis "From nano-scale to global models of catalytic reactors"
• 2020-present: Full professor at UCT Prague

Research interests

• Dynamic behaviour of catalytic reactors and filters for automotive exhaust gas aftertreatment
• Kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions
• Multi-scale modeling of reaction and transport processes
• 3D computer reconstruction of porous structures

Publications

• Monolith publications
• Web of Science
• Google Scholar
• Scopus
• ORCID

Teaching

• Chemical reaction engineering
• Industrial reactors
• Unit operations in chemical engineering
• Laboratory of chemical engineering

Industrial co-operations

• Johnson Matthey - catalytic coatings with controlled reaction-transport properties, catalyst aging kinetics
• Škoda Auto - automotive emissions and exhaust gas aftertreatment
• Mercedes-Benz - experiments and software development for catalysts and filters
• Corning - pore-scale modeling of filter substrates
• Dinex Ecocat - development of global kinetic models

Awards

• 2001-2005: Votoček's Fellowship for excellent PhD students
• 2003: Best young researcher award at 3rd International Symposium on Multifunctional Reactors, University of Bath, UK
• 2006: Best PhD Thesis at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Unipetrol Award
• 2013: Excellent young academic award, UCT Prague