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25.8.2025 - Reportage on Olivier Monfort (TV Markiza)
A reportage about Olivier Monfort from our department has been released on TV Markiza. He is telling about his life in Slovakia and, of course, his scientific research at the M² group.
You can watch the reportage by cliking here.
24.6.2025 - Award "Vedec Roka SR 2024"
On Tuesday June 24th 2025, Olivier Monfort from our Faculty (department of Inorganic Chemistry) received the prestigious award of the Scientist of the Year 2024 of the Slovak republic, in the category of the Young Scientific Researcher, for his exceptional contribution in the field of wastewaters treatment research based on environmentally sustainable chemical processes using new unconventional materials and photochemistry. Dr. Monfort insists on the fact that the award is not "his" award, but the award of his research team (the M2 group).
Olivier Monfort is a French citizen who chose Slovakia for his scientific career. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in France, he decided to return to his alma mater in 2019: Comenius University in Bratislava. Olivier Monfort works at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, where he became the Deputy Head in 2024. Olivier Monfort habilitated at the age of 33 and leads a research group focused on fundamental research on nanomaterials for environmental applications. The main research directions are the investigation of innovative alternatives in wastewaters treatment and green energy production (e.g. hydrogen).
Associate Professor Monfort leads projects from different grant schemes, aiming at the same goals: to design sustainable, environmentally friendly and efficient wastewaters treatment. This topic is hot regarding the new EU directives on the quality of treated wastewaters and their potential reuse in the circular economy. To this end, the research team of Olivier Monfort is developing catalysts capable of generating chemical redox processes that increase the efficiency of wastewaters treatment by the action of light. This fundamental research is based on the understanding of these innovative processes that is one of the keys for potential applications. Without basic knowledge of the mechanisms involved in wastewaters treatment, it is not possible to optimise them in real practice.
The ultimate aim of the research led by Olivier Monfort is not only to look for alternatives to current wastewaters treatment technologies, but also to highlight the possibility of integrating innovative processes to achieve significantly better quality of treated wastewater that could potentially be reused.
Olivier Monfort has actively participated in more than 20 international conferences. He has so far published more than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 10 of them in 2024 according to the SCOPUS database.
Olivier Monfort is involved in projects as a primary idea holder and as a research coordinator, but also as a practical implementer. His motto is that excellence is always the result of the work of the whole team.
https://tvnoviny.sk/domace/clanok/974771-ocenenia-vedec-roka-2024-su-rozdane
8.10.2024 - Shalu, our SASPRO2 postdoc has been interviewed by our university magazine "Naša Univerzita"
Shalu is exploring new research direction that can help to better clean wastewaters. She is designing new type of MXene-based nanomaterials that can efficiently break down pollutants into harmless, or at least less harmful substances, in the presence of light or green oxidant. Read the full article here.
6.5.2024 - NSS conf. 2024: lecture of Assoc. Prof. Olivier Monfort, PhD. available on YouTube
In the frame of the NextScience conference (March 20th 2024), Assoc. Prof. Olivier Monfort, PhD. has given a, invited lecture on the protection of the water resource: an environmental challenge. You can see his talk on YouTube by just cliking here.
15.4.2024 - Interview of Assoc. Prof. Olivier Monfort, PhD.
In the frame of the NextScience conference (March 20th 2024), Assoc. Prof. Olivier Monfort, PhD. has been interviewed by the Slovak Center for Science and Technology Information (CVTI) for the Alumni SK4ERA project. Olivier Monfort discussed the differences in the scientific research between France and Slovakia but he also explained the main research directions he is developing at the M² group, dept. Inorg. Chem., FNS CU Bratislava. You can click here to watch the full interview!
8.11.2023 - Award "Dionýza Ilkoviča"
Dr. Chrappová from our department received the award "Dionýza Ilkoviča" 2023 for her work to disseminate studies at Slovak universities among motivated Slovak high school stdents and for her work with young talented high school students in the field of Natural Sciences.
Viac informácií v médiách:
https://nadaciadi.sk/pribehy-ucitelov/jana-chrappova-vitazka-cdi-2023/
https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/nRVHZmg/cenu-dionyza-ilkovica-ziskala-chemicka-jana-chrappova/
https://domov.sme.sk/c/23241651/cenu-dionyza-ilkovica-ziskala-chemicka-jana-chrappova.html
26.10.2022 - "He found his second home in Slovakia"
Olivier Monfort, a young French scientist living in Slovakia, has settled in Bratislava-Vajnory. He comes from Brittany, a region in the west of France on the Atlantic Ocean, from the village of Séné near the district town of Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan. He works at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Comenius University Bratislava, as a researcher and teacher.
More info: tu
12.6.2022 - Photochemistry: The solution for the health of the planet?
Dr. Olivier Monfort, one of our researchers at the Department Inorganic Chemistry FNS CU, has written an article about the challenges in environmental photochemistry. You can read the article in aktuality.sk.