Pavel Matousek

Pavel has worked at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire since 1991. He pioneered the concepts of Kerr gated fluorescence rejection from Raman spectra and Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy. Pavel published over 160 peer reviewed articles and filed 10 patents. He is the recipient of 2009 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) and shares the 2002 and 2006 Meggers Awards from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Recently, he acted as the Chair of the Meggers Award Selection Committee and was elected as the Program Chair of FACSS 2011 (Reno, NV). Pavel serves on the Editorial and Editorial Advisory Boards of Applied Spectroscopy, Analyst and Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Pavel is a founding director of Cobalt, an STFC Fellow and a Visiting Professor of University College London.