Jiří Homola received MSc. degree from the Faculty of Nuclear Physics and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (1988), PhD. and DSc. degree from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1993 in 2009). He is also Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA), Adjunct Professor at the University of Oulu (Finland), and Associate Professor at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). He received The Praemium Academiae (Prague, Czech Republic, 2011), The Czech Brain Award for Invention (Prague, Czech Republic, 2009), The Roche Prize for Sensor Technology (Tuebingen, Germany, 2006) and The Otto Wichterle Award(Prague, Czech Republic, 2003).
