Martin Pumera is the Chief Investigator of the Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic, and Head of the Advanced Nanorobots and Multiscale Robotics Laboratory at the Technical University of Ostrava. He is also the founder of the Centre for Advanced Functional Nanorobots at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague, where he served as Director from 2017 to 2023. Previously, he was a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UCT Prague and has held prominent research and leadership positions across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Martin received his PhD from Charles University in the Czech Republic in 2001. Following postdoctoral appointments in the United States and Spain, he became a tenured group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan (2006-2009). In 2010, he joined Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as a tenured Associate Professor, where he worked for nearly a decade before returning to Europe to establish pioneering research programs in nanorobotics and advanced functional materials. Prof. Pumera is internationally recognised for his broad and high-impact contributions to nanomaterials and microsystems, spanning micro- and nanomachines, quantum materials, machine intelligence, electrochemistry, synthetic chemistry of 2D materials, nanotoxicology, and 3D printing technologies. He is consistently ranked among the top scientists in the world: the most cited scientist in the Czech Republic, and one of the most cited globally (#203 in 2019; #191 in 2021). He has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for five consecutive years since 2017. Martin has published over 900 research papers, accumulating more than 80,000 citations with an h-index of 135, and he holds 4 international patents. Over his career, he has led and mentored more than 120 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, with over 30 former group members now serving as professors, associate professors, or research group leaders across the world-from Australia and Singapore to China, Germany, Spain, and Peru. Martin has attracted over €33 million to support his research programs, including an ERC Starting Grant in 2009 (EPFL, Switzerland). His group has also hosted 19 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows and 21 MSCA-CZ Fellows.
Prof. Pumera is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Materials Today and serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including ACS Nano, Small, Chemistry – A European Journal, Electrochemistry Communications, ChemElectroChem, and Electroanalysis.