Rndr. Jiří Šponer

Biography

1987 - Master degree (RNDr), Physics, Faculty of Science, MU Brno 1992 - CSc (eq. PhD), Biophysics, Faculty of Science, MU Brno 2001 - D.Sc. (Doctor of Science), Biophysics/Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 2002 - Associate Professor of Biophysics, Masaryk University, Brno 2009 - Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, Masaryk University, Brno

Research Interest

Structural molecular biology and biophysics, physical chemistry of molecular interactions, computational chemistry, atomistic simulations of biopolymers, structural studies of functional RNA molecules (ribosome, ribozymes), DNA and their complexes with ligands and proteins, quantum-chemical studies of molecular interactions in nucleic acids, bioinformatics of nucleic acids.