Jakub Dostalek received his PhD in 2006 from the Charles University in Prague and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) until 2006. After his postdoctoral training at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, he was appointed there as a project leader and in 2009 he moved to the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, where he served a senior scientist position from 2015 to 2023. Since 2020, he is a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources. In 2021, he assumed senior researcher position at the Institute of Physics CAS in Prague and from 2023 he is group leader at Danube Private University in Wiener Neustadt.