Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lenka ZAJÍČKOVÁH-Index: 38
Brno University of Technology, CEITEC & Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, EU
Positions: Group leader at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno University of Technology and Assoc. Professor at Dept Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Specialization: Plasma Processing of Materials, Organic Thin Films, and Carbon Nanomaterials.
At the NANOCON´26 Lenka Zajíčková will open the Session A – Nanomaterials for Electronic, Magnetic and Optic Applications, Carbon Nanostructures, Quantum Dots by her invited talk “Optical properties of fluorescent nitrogen-containing carbon quantum dots”.
Personal Background and Education:
Lenka Zajíčková holds a Habilitation in Plasma Physics (2009) and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics (1999) from the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, with earlier a Master’s (1994). Her academic background focuses on plasma physics, thin films, and surface coatings.
She has been leading the Plasma Technologies research group at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) since 2011 and serving as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, since 2009. Prior roles include Assistant Professor and Research Scientist at the same institute between 1997 and 2009.
She completed several postdoctoral research internships, including 12 months at the University of Minnesota (Dept. Mechanical Engineering), Minneapolis, USA (2004), and 12 months at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Experimental Physics II insbes. Gaselektronik), Bochum, Germany (2000-2001). She has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, from 2018 to2025, and at the Laboratoire des Plasmas et Couches Minces, University of Nantes, France in 2009.
Her teaching activities include lectures and laboratory courses in plasma physics and diagnostic methods, thin film deposition technologies, surface and thin film characterization, and nano- and micro-technologies. She also taught specialized lectures on plasma processing of materials in international summer schools and has successfully supervised numerous bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral theses.
Research interests:
The research activities of Lenka Zajíčková are focused on plasma processing of polymers, plasma-surface interactions in low- or atmospheric-pressure discharges, and carbon nanomaterials.
Her work advanced the research on bioactive plasma polymer coatings by demonstrating their performance in immunosensors and their interactions with cells. She developed versatile plasma modification methods of polymer nanofibers, including atmospheric-pressure processing, and contributed to a better understanding of plasma deposition into 3D structures. She initially impacted the emerging field of nanotechnologies by demonstrating the rapid synthesis of carbon nanotubes in a microwave plasma torch and later by showing a wide variety of applications for nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots synthesized by a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method.
Summary of publication activity:
Author/co-author of 166 papers in international peer-reviewed journals; The number of total citations > 4.240 and H-index: 38 (Google Scholar, January 2026); ORCID ID 
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