BACG2026 Speaker Profile

Jan Sefcik

Professor, University of Strathclyde

Jan Sefcik obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, followed by PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After working as Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech in Pasadena and Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, he joined University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 2005, where he is now Professor in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering. His research expertise is in particle and colloid engineering, crystallisation and nucleation. His research has been supported by a wide range of governmental funding bodies, charities and industry, and published in over 140 papers in refereed international journals. He is a member of the Presidium of the Slovak Research and Development Agency, the executive committee of the British Association of Crystal Growth, and the Working Party on Crystallisation of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.