About Me
Ing. Magdalena Bendová, Ph.D, HDR
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Chemistry, UCT Prague
Room A133
Email: bendovam[at]vscht.cz
Phone: +420 22044 4297
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4095-6093
I studied physical chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (MSc 2000, PhD 2003). I subsequently joined the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where I worked as a research fellow, before returning to the Department of Physical Chemistry in 2023.
My research began with phase equilibria of multicomponent liquid mixtures and evolved into studies of the thermophysical properties of ionic liquids, particularly in the context of sustainable thermal energy storage. Over time, this work has been strengthened by close international collaborations, enabling the combination of experimental, theoretical, and applied perspectives. More recently, I have extended my research to biobased ionic liquids and to the solution behavior of dendritic molecules (dendrimers), with a focus on sensing and environmental applications, often in collaboration with partners at home and abroad. Representative partner institutions include the Faculty of Nuclear Science and Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Institute of Molecular Chemistry of the University Reims Champagne-Ardenne, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
In 2023 I obtained my habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) from the University of Tours (France) and I am currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Solution Chemistry.
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20 January 2026
Souvenir-Zafindrajaona, M.S., Mbakidi, J. P. Wagner, Z., Bouquillon, S., Bendová, M. From experimental data to thermophysical insight: characterizing choline-based ionic liquids using advanced data analysis. Just published in RSC Advances
9 January 2026
Pietrusiak, P., Pawłowska, B., Bendová, M., Biczak, R., Feder-Kubis, J. Designing safer functionalised ionic liquids: Monoterpene-derived compounds for greener agrochemical development. Accepted to Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2025.
28 November 2025
Mahasoa-Salina Souvenir-Zafindrajaona defended her PhD thesis “Aqueous Solutions of Bio-sourced Ionic Liquids: Thermodynamic Properties and Applications for Biomass Treatment (SOLEAULIB); (co-supervised with Prof. Sandrine Bouquillon), at the Institute of Molecular Chemistry, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
November 2025
The Special Issue in honour of Prof. Christo Balarew’s 90th Birthday of the Journal of Solution Chemistry is now complete. It was produced in collaboration with our Guest Editor, Prof. Stefka Tepavicharova, and my fellow Editor-in-Chief Prof. Earle Waghorne.
September 2025
Oral contribution at 14th Barrande-Vltava Colloqium, Pardubice
Sinephro, K., Bouquillon, S., Mbakidi, J.-P., Heyda, J., Bendová, M. Solution chemistry of aqueous systems of glycerol-based dendrimers.
July 2025
Poster presentation at the ICCT25 Conference, Porto
Bendová, M., Heyda, J. Feder-Kubis, J., Melčák, M., Polák J. Thermophysical Properties, Dissociation and Partitioning of Chiral Imidazolium-Based Chloride Salts in Water-Octanol Systems.
March 2025
Keynote presentation at ACS Spring Meeting 2025
Bendová, M., Wagner, Z., Parmar, N., Rotrekl, J. Advanced data analysis in heat capacity measurement design.
Recent Publications
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Souvenir-Zafindrajaona, M.S., Mbakidi, J. P. Wagner, Z., Bouquillon, S., Bendová, M. From experimental data to thermophysical insight: characterizing choline-based ionic liquids using advanced data analysis. RSC Advances 2026.
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Schweiger, M., Lang, T., Müller, E., Jeřábek, V. Heyda, J., Klajmon, M., Touraud, D., Bendová, M., Řehák, K., Kunz. W. Complete biodiverse lignocellulosic biomass fractionation process using the green solvent γ-valerolactone. RSC Sustainability, 2025.
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Bendová, M., Bouquillon, S. et al. Synthetic approaches to monocatenar and bolaform choline-based ionic liquids. J. Mol. Liq., 2025.
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Parmar, N., Bendová, M., & Wagner, Z. Heat capacity measurements by a Setaram μDSC3 evo microcalorimeter: estimation of deviation in the measurement, advanced data analysis by mathematical gnostics, and prediction by the artificial neural network. J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., 2025.
Forthcoming and Submitted Work
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Ondo, D., Heyda, J., Vrbka, P., Polák, J., Bendová, M. Fluctuation theory as a joined experimental and computational tool: Insights into hydration, self-association, and specific interactions. Book chapter in Molecular Thermodynamics of Aqueous Systems: Binary and Ternary Solutions/Mixtures, RSC Press, ed. Trevor Letcher. In press, 2025.