Jan Topinka

Jan Topinka (Czech Republic) is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1986 at Czech Technical University in Prague after which he took up his first academic position at the Research Institute of Psychiatry. In 1991 he joined the Institute of Experimental Medicine CAS as scientist in the area of the effect of the environmental pollution on human health. In 1998-2004 he spent long term stay in GSF-Researh Center for Health and Environment in Neuherberg (Germany) dealing mostly with possible adverse effects of asbestos substitute mineral fibres (EU project FIBRETOX). In 2005 he became Research Professor in biomedicine. Jan has served as a member of multiple panels for the evaluation of project proposals for the Czech Science Foundation. He chaired the Commission for the Environment of the CAS. Since 2016 he is the chair of the commission for defences of the scientific degree Research Professor in biomedicine in CAS. Jan’s research interests include air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases, mechanisms of toxicity of complex environmental mixtures, nanotoxicology, molecular epidemiology – health effects of the environmental pollution. He has more than 250 published impacted journal articles and has h-index of 38 (WoS).