Pavel Plevka

Pavel Plevka is Research Group Leader and Deputy Director for Research Infrastructure at CEITEC Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a structural virologist and was awarded two ERC grants - Starting and Consolidator. Pavel Plevka has determined the structures of several viruses, most notably that of human enterovirus 71 that causes potentially fatal encephalitis in small children. Furthermore, he studied the maturation of the dengue virus. He focuses on X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy of viruses and other macromolecular complexes. Pavel Plevka studied Molecular Biology and Virology at the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague and graduated in 2002, then went on to complete his doctoral studies in Structural Biology in 2009 at Uppsala University in Sweden. For the next four years, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Michael Rossmann’s Group at Purdue University in the United States. In 2013, he received ERC Starting Grant and established his own research group that is focused on Structural Virology at CEITEC Masaryk University in Brno. He is a laureate of the Neuron Prize for Young Scientists and the Werner von Siemens Prize for the most important discovery in basic research. In 2020, he became the Deputy Director for Research Infrastructure at CEITEC Masaryk University. In 2022, he was awarded ERC Consolidator Grant.