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
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
Updated: 24.4.2023 15:23, Author: Petr Kočí
