Separations Chemistry

Dr. James Navratil has more than forty years of experience in environmental management, waste and water treatment research and development, separations science and technology, and actinide chemistry and radiochemistry, acquired primarily at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Rocky Flats Plant and through his assignments with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Chemical Waste Management, DOE's Energy Technology Engineering Center, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Rust Federal Services, and currently, Hazen Research Inc., where he is a senior technical advisor. Accomplishments in the development of separation, recovery, and waste treatment processes have earned Dr. Navratil numerous honors, including the annual award of the Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Rockwell International Engineer of the Year, two IR-100 Awards, and three society fellowships. He was a member of the IAEA team awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize and, in 2006, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Commitment to the Waste-Management, Education and Research Consortium (WERC) and to WERC's International Environmental Design Contests. Fedor MacáSek was born 1937, Zilina, Czechoslovakia, graduated from the Moscow State University (USSR) in 1962 in physical chemistry and radiochemistry. Since his graduation, he has been working at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava; 1968, PhD.; 1984, DSc; 1985, full professor of nuclear chemistry; 2004, Professor Emeritus.