Jan Hrušák is a senior research fellow (c. 100 scientific papers, 3500 citations) at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He completed studies in physical chemistry and received PhD (Dr.rer.nat) in 1987 at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg (Germany), before joining the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he moved to TU Berlin to work with H. Schwarz in theoretical chemistry. In 1995, he accepted a position at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, where, after spending one year as a visiting professor at the Institute of Molecular Science at Okazaki (Japan), he has been working since. Jan Hrušák served two terms in the executive body of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and he has been appointed for two years as Director General for research at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic (MEYS). He is a longstanding ESFRI member (currently chair) and the Czech delegate to ERAC. Recently, he was appointed as a member/expert of the EOSC Steering Board. He acts as Special Envoy on Research infrastructures at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic
