Michal Hocek

In September 2016, Hocek was featured on Hyde Park Civilizace, a Czech television show featuring prominent Czech and international scientists. As of April 2019, he has produced over 230 publications and numerous patents. His research articles have garnered over 6000 citations, and he has achieved an h-index of 44.

In 2007, Hocek was promoted to the Head of Research Team at the IOCB, thus beginning his independent research career. From 2011 to 2014, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Organic and Nuclear Chemistry at Charles University in Prague. He became a full professor in 2014.

In 2002, Hocek was promoted to group leader of the Group of Modified Nucleobases at the IOCB. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the head of the Department of Organic Synthesis for Biomedicinal Applications at the IOCB. In 2006, he completed a Doctor of Science degree (DSc) at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at UCT Prague. In the same year, he served as an associate professor at UCT Prague.

Hocek has been an editor for several academic journals. From 1998 to 2011, he served as editor-in-chief of the Collection of the Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, and from 2011, he has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journals ChemPlusChem and ChemBioChem. In 2013, he was named an F1000 faculty member for chemical biology. He is a currently a member of the Czech Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the International Society for Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids.

Michal Hocek studied at the former Prague Institute of Chemical Technology (now University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague or UCT, Prague) under the supervision of Josef Kuthan. In 1993, he graduated with an MSc degree specializing in organic and medicinal chemistry. He enrolled in a PhD program at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (IOCB) under the tutelage of Dr. Antonín Holý, completing his studies in 1996. In 1997, Hocek performed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship under the guidance of Léon Ghosez at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). He returned to the IOCB and Holý's laboratory, where he worked as a staff scientist for five years from 1998 to 2002.

Michal Hocek (born 11 December 1969 in Benešov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech chemist. He is a group leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AV CR, Prague and a professor of organic chemistry at Charles University in Prague. He specializes in the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleosides, nucleotides, and nucleic acids.