About the Editors
Dr. Jan Filip received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Mineralogy from Masaryk
University in Brno, the Czech Republic (2002 and 2008, respectively). His dissertation focused on the crystal chemistry of borosilicate minerals and OH defects in
nominally anhydrous minerals. In 2005, he joined the research group of Prof. Radek
Zbořil’s and currently leads the group “Environmental nanotechnologies” at the
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University
Olomouc, the Czech Republic. He has been on fellowships at different universities
and institutes abroad, e.g., the University of Vienna, Austria, or the Swedish
Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, and actively participates in various
national and international collaborative projects. His research interests cover development, optimization, and application of zero-valent iron nanoparticles, ferrates, and
iron oxide nanoparticles in technologies for water treatment, identification of
nanoparticles in the environment, application of X-ray-based techniques (X-ray
diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and related techniques), and Mössbauer spectroscopy in materials science. He is the author and
co-author of four book chapters, more than 105 papers in refereed journals that have
received about 2000 citations, and several other applied results including verified
technologies, utility models, and prototypes. He is a named inventor of five patents.
His H-index has reached 23.
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University
Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Prof. Tomáš Cajthaml completed his PhD study in 2002. His thesis focused on
fungal degradative mechanisms of persistent organic pollutants. He has served at
various foreign institutes, e.g., the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research,
Leipzig, Germany (8 months) or the Plant Macromolecule Research Centre
(CERMAV), Grenoble, France (4 months). He has been the Head of the Laboratory
of Environmental Technology, Institute of Microbiology, the Czech Academy of
Sciences, since 2006. Since 2015 he has been a professor at Charles University and
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Dr. Jan Filip received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Mineralogy from Masaryk
University in Brno, the Czech Republic (2002 and 2008, respectively). His dissertation focused on the crystal chemistry of borosilicate minerals and OH defects in
nominally anhydrous minerals. In 2005, he joined the research group of Prof. Radek
Zbořil’s and currently leads the group “Environmental nanotechnologies” at the
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University
Olomouc, the Czech Republic. He has been on fellowships at different universities
and institutes abroad, e.g., the University of Vienna, Austria, or the Swedish
Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, and actively participates in various
national and international collaborative projects. His research interests cover development, optimization, and application of zero-valent iron nanoparticles, ferrates, and
iron oxide nanoparticles in technologies for water treatment, identification of
nanoparticles in the environment, application of X-ray-based techniques (X-ray
diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and related techniques), and Mössbauer spectroscopy in materials science. He is the author and
co-author of four book chapters, more than 105 papers in refereed journals that have
received about 2000 citations, and several other applied results including verified
technologies, utility models, and prototypes. He is a named inventor of five patents.
His H-index has reached 23.
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University
Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Prof. Tomáš Cajthaml completed his PhD study in 2002. His thesis focused on
fungal degradative mechanisms of persistent organic pollutants. He has served at
various foreign institutes, e.g., the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research,
Leipzig, Germany (8 months) or the Plant Macromolecule Research Centre
(CERMAV), Grenoble, France (4 months). He has been the Head of the Laboratory
of Environmental Technology, Institute of Microbiology, the Czech Academy of
Sciences, since 2006. Since 2015 he has been a professor at Charles University and
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