Email: Nina.Novakova@vscht.cz
Phone: +420 220 444 460
Address:
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Technická 3
166 28 Prague 6
Czechia
Education
- 2024 – present
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Doctoral Program: Chemical and Process Engineering
Project Title: Microcapsule Vivaria: A Novel Approach for Investigating Microbial Communication Pathways - 2022 – 2024
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Master's Program: Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Thesis Title: Effect of salts and pH on the formation, growth, and morphological changes of myelin figures in the decanol-sodium decanoate system - 2019 – 2022
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Bachelor's Program: Nano and Microtechnology in Chemical Engineering
Thesis Title: Experimental study of the myelin figure growth
Work Experience
- 05/2023 – present
Prague Congress Centre, a.s.
Role: informer, hall service - 07/2023
ELMARCO, s.r.o., Liberec
Internship
Focus: Laboratory electrospinning using Nanospider device - 05/2023-12/2023
BT Retail, s.r.o., Prague
Role: Sales Assistant - 01/2022 – 12/2022
Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General University Hospital in Prague
Role: Healthcare Assistant – Laboratory
Duties: Diagnosis of septic conditions, identification of bacterial and fungal DNA in human K-EDTA blood and Pneumocystis jirovecii in lower respiratory tract materials using PCR - 05/2015 – 12/2021
Madal Bal, a.s., Prague
Role: Sales Assistant
Achievements
- 2024 ALIFE 2024 Conference, Copenhagen
Best student poster award summarizing the paper Myelin Figures Formation from Oil Droplets in Surfactants: Insights for Wet Artificial Life. - 2024 Growing with Chemistry Conference, Prague
Czech Chemical Society Award for oral presentation
Outputs
- Nováková N., Macháček J., Čejková J., Investigating the Role of Curvature in the Formation and Stability of Myelin Figures, CurvoBio2024 conference, 28. – 30. 08. 2024, Warsaw, Poland (poster).
- Nováková N., Macháček J., Čejková J., Myelin Figures Formation from Oil Droplets in Surfactants: Insights for Wet Artificial Life., ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. MIT Press, 2024 (fulltext, poster).
- Nováková N., Macháček J., Čejková J., Biomimetické chování v chemických systémech: tvorba myelinových figur, Konference: Rosteme s chemií, 27. – 28. 06. 2024, Prague, Czech Republic (oral presentation).
- Nováková N., Macháček J., Čejková J., Engineering Insights into Myelin Figures Formation. 50th International Conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering. 20. – 24. 05. 2024, Tatranské Matliare, Slovakia (fulltext, oral presentation).
- Nováková N., Čejková J., Experimental study of the myelin figures growth, 48th International Conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering. 23. – 26. 05. 2022, Tatranské Matliare, Slovakia (poster).
- Nováková N., Tvorba vezikulárních struktur v systému dekanol-dekanoát sodný v přítomnosti solí, Student Scientific Conference (SVK), 24. 11. 2022, UCT Prague (oral presentation).
- Nováková N., Experimentální studium vlivu soli na růst myelinových figur, Student Scientific Conference (SVK), 02. 12. 2021, UCT Prague (oral presentation).
Academic and Research Experience
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST):
- CA22153 European Curvature and Biology Network (EuroCurvoBioNet)
Member of Working Group Teaching and Outreach (WG1), Curvature of Cellular Membranes (WG2), and Curvature across the Scales (WG5) since 04/2024
Participation in CurvoBio 2024 conference, 28. – 30. 08. 2024 - CA21169 Information, Coding, and Biological Function: the Dynamics of Life (DYNALIFE)
Member of Working Group Dissemination and Communication (WG4) since 01/2024
Co-organizer of the WG4 Working Group meeting in Prague, 25th – 26th January 2024 - CA17120 Chemobrionics (CBrio)
Participation in Pisa Annual Meeting, 05. – 07. 08. 2022
