Václav Hampl
Václav Hampl, RNDr., Dr.Sc. (born 1962) is a Czech physiologist and, since Feb. 2006t to Jan. 2015, rector of Charles University in Prague.
Hampl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1962 and received a PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1990. He did postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota Medical School and, since 2002, has been a professor of physiology at Charles University in Prague. His research has focused on the pulmonary circulation and its use of nitric oxide as a signaling agent. His research publications have been cited more than 2500 times, his H-index is 22. In 2006, Hampl became the 507th rector of Charles University in Prague. After serving two four-years terms stipulated by low, he stepped down on Jan. 31, 2014, leaving the university in the hands of his elected successor Tomáš Zima.
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Media related to Václav Hampl at Wikimedia Commons - Home page
- Hampl's CV (PDF)
- Hampl interviewed after his election as rector
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