Prof Mirek Macka
Professor & ARC Future Fellow
PhD, RNDr, MRACI, MRSC, CChem
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Chemistry Building |
| Room Reference |
2027 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 6670 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 2858 |
| Email |
Mirek.Macka@utas.edu.au |
Publications
- D Colins, E Nesterenko, D Connolly, M Vasquez, M Macka, D Brabazon, B Paull. Versatile capillary column temperature control using a thermoelectric array based platform. Anal. Chem. 83 (2011) 4307-4313.
- E Nesterenko, O Yavorska, M Macka, A Yavorskyy, B Paull. Monolithic porous layer open tubular (monoPLOT) columns for low pressure liquid chromatography of proteins. Anal. Methods. 3 (2011) 924-931.
- T Piasecki, M Macka, B Paull, D Brabazon. Numerical model for light propagation and light intensity distrubution inside coated fused silica capillaries. Opt. Laser. Eng. 49 (2011) 924-931.
- Z Walsh, PA Levkin, S Abele, S Scarmagnani, D Heger, P Klan, D Diamond, B Paull, F Svec, M Macka. Polymerisation and surface modification of methacrylate monoliths in polyimide channels and polyimide coated capillaries using 660 nm light emitting diodes. J. Chromatogr. A. 1218 (2011) 2954-2962.
- M Ryvolova, J Preisler, F Foret, PC Hauser, P Krasensky, B Paull, M Macka. Combined contactless conductometric, photometric, and fluorimetric single point detector for capillary separation methods. Anal. Chem. 82 (2010) 129-135.
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Achievements
Prof Mirek Macka graduated in general and analytical chemistry from the Masaryk University, Brno, Czechoslovakia, and obtained his PhD degree at the University of Tasmania. He has extensive experience from industrial pharmaceutical research in Europe as well as a productive academic research record.
Research Interests
The main areas of interest are separation science including capillary electrophoresis, electrochromatography, liquid chromatography and related methods, microfluidic chip-based separations, as well as in areas of molecular spectrophotometry and instrumental design. Research interests are both fundamental and applied in their nature in the general fields of chemical and biochemical analysis, physical chemistry and engineering, with emphasis on: • Separation methods, including electro-driven separations and specifically capillary electrophoresis (CE), electrochromatography (CEC), and CE-on-a-chip devices; • Instrumentation aspects, including miniaturised, portable/point-of-care and remote analytical systems, and detection with optical and electrochemical methods; • Solid state light sources, namely light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes (LDs) and super-luminescent LEDS (SLEDs), and their utilisation in detection, sensors, photochemistry, heaters, actuators and lab-on-a-chip devices; • Numerical simulations in fluidic systems. The research philosophy is in crossing boundaries between disciplines and between areas of fundamental or applied research, and in utilising at a maximum modern high-tech-low-$ ‘smart gadgets’.
