The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry cordially welcomes Vojtech Vlcek, who joined our department as Assistant Professor on July 1, 2018.  Prior to his appointment at UCSB, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Los Angeles in the Chemistry Department. Dr. Vlcek received his PhD in 2016 jointly from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and University of Bayreuth (Germany), where he studied in chemistry and physics departments. His PhD was sponsored by Minerva Fellowship of the Max Planck society.