This web page was created by myself for my personal presentation and as a supplement of job applications. You can find here information about me, about my work and a lot of pictures of my friends.

At first let me tell you something about me. My name is Martin Dusek (how you can see above :o)). I was born on 7th July 1976 in Benesov, and spent whole childhood in Votice, a small town in Central Bohemia. After the finishing of basic school I studied secondary chemical school - SPSCH in Prague. SPSCH is the high school focused on the analytical chemistry with more then 100 years old history. I choose this school because I was interested in natural sciences as a child.

In 1999, I began studying at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague on the faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology. During my studying I recognized to be more interested in the analytical chemistry then a food technology. Therefore, I was a very lucky that Prof. Kvasnicka had chosen me as his student. Under his leadership I could deal with special branches of the analytical chemistry such as electrophoresis and isotachophoresis. The theme of my final work was "Creatine and Creatinine in Meat" and I graduated as a Master of Science in June 2000.

A few months ago before my graduation, I had been accepted as a Ph.D. student of Prof. F. Kvasnicka. I chose the theme of my thesis "Using of electromigration methods in food analysis" and during more over then three years. I aimed to utilize capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and capillary isotachophoresis (CITP) for determination of some interesting compounds occurring in food such as

• Polyphosphates by CITP, CITP-CZE and CZE.
• Added phosphate in meat products by CITP.
• Lactic, acetic, propionic and butyric acid in silage by CZE.
• Carboxylic acids in eggs by two-dimensional CITP-CITP.
• Glutamic acid in instant soup by CITP.
• Determination biogenic amines (BA) by CZE using salicylaldehyde-5-sulfonic acid (SAS) as a derivatizing reagent. Here you can download my PowerPoint presentation about the determination of BA by SAS reagent.

As part of the requirements for Ph.D. degree, I spent three months at Vienna University in the Prof. Kenndler’s lab acquiring a lot of theory knowledge and practical experience about capillary electrophoresis. Moreover, I like the city Vienna and I will adore its forever. In summer 2003 I was two months on my second foreign stay at the HOVIONE pharmaceutical company in Lisbon (Portugal). During this very interesting but unfortunately short stay I worked as an analyst at the QC department, and helped to validate CE equipment for routine analysis. I am proud of having the opportunity to work for HOVIONE where I could see and got to know very professional analytical laboratory. I also met a lot of new friends in Portugal, and got to know this beautiful county.

In November 2003 I had begun working as an HPLC analyst at small firm Analab Praha, whose deals with analysis of food, before I completed my Doctor of Philosophy in June 2004. At the present time, I have more then one year long experience as a HPLC analyst. During the first year in this company I successful passed few classes such as "Waters Dataschool of Liquid Chromatography" (Waters), GMProject and I got the certificates.

In May 2005, I gave a three months’ notice and in August, I flew to USA a because I wanted to see my friends who work at the UC Davis in California at present. My friend and I spent three weeks there and we visited many beautiful places in several National Parks. When I have returned from the USA, I started working at the State Agriculture and Food Control Authority in Prague as an LS-MS analyst. Now I deal with the determination of pesticides. The aim of my work is enlarge the amount of evaluated pesticides so that we are able to determined about several hundreds polar pesticides in a foodstuff. For this purpose, I have Varian 1200L triple quad and Finnigan ion trap MS equipments at my disposal.

I sometime desire to find a similar job or post-doc position abroad especially in some English speaking country such as USA, GB, Ireland or Australia. I believe that the combination of my academic research background, my work experience and my experience from the foreign research fellowships are well suitable for to realization of my purpose. I hope that this page could help me to get a job of my dreams :o) and will also be useful for my potential employer in future.

Are you interested? I will be pleased provided you contact me. You can also download my English Curicullum Vitae as pdf file.

Kvasnicka F., Dusek M.: Creatine and creatinine content in meat products.
Czech Journal of Food Science 18 (2000), 95-96.

Dusek M., Kvasnicka F., Lukaskova L. and Kratka J.: Isotachophoretic determination of added phosphate in meat products.
Meat Science 65 (2003), 765-769.

Moravcova J., Kleinova T., Loucka R., Tyrolova I., Kvasnicka F., Dusek M., Cerovsky M.: Effect of additives on coumestrol content in laboratory alfalfa silages. Czech Journal of Animal Sciences 48 (2003), 425-431.

Dusek M., Kvasnicka F., Moravcova J.: Determination of organic acid in alfalfa silage by capillary isotachophoresis and capillary zone electrophoresis. Chemické Listy 98 (2004), 418-422.

Moravcova J., Kleinova T., Loucka R., Tyrolova I., Kvasnicka F., Dusek M., Cerovsky M., Matucha P.: Coumestrol content of alfalfa following ensilage. Animal Feed Science and Technology 115 (2004), 159-167.