Environmental chemistry

The follow-up Master's programme in Environmental Chemistry is designed to provide students with a chemistry bachelor's degree with a higher specialised education in chemistry related to the environment. Since a key component of environmental chemistry is qualitative and quantitative analysis, great emphasis is placed on deepening knowledge of classical and modern analytical techniques and acquiring practical skills in their performance. The theoretical and practical teaching of the Environmental Chemistry programme makes use of the experience of leading scientists in environmental chemistry working at the Faculty of Science and at the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (especially at the Biological Centre of the CAS, v.v.i. - Institute of Hydrobiology and the Centre for Global Change Research of the CAS, v.v.i.). Thanks to this interdependence and cooperation of the Faculty with the departments of the CAS, students have the opportunity to use not only the equipment of the Faculty of Science, but also the instrumentation of other departments, which will broaden their knowledge and practical experience. Thus, the Environmental Chemistry programme will enable students to get acquainted with the whole range of environmental chemistry, both natural environmental components and their cycles, as well as anthropogenic components, including their influence on natural conditions and transformations they may undergo in the natural environment. Students will explore the world of modern analytical techniques used to study environmental components and learn these techniques in both theoretical and practical terms.