Jakub Dostálek received his PhD from the Charles University and was Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2006. From 2000 to 2006, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics in Prague (Czech Republic). From 2006 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany) and during 2007–2008 he worked there as a project leader in the Department of Materials Research. From 2009 to 2015, he has held a project leader position at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna (Austria) and from 2016 to 2023 he has worked there as senior researcher. In 2022, he established a research group Biophotonics at Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech republic) and from 2023 he in addition holds a position of senior scientist at DPU - Danube Private University (Austria). He serves as a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna (Austria). His research interests include nanomaterials, plasmonics, plasmonically enhanced optical spectroscopy, and polymer biointerfaces applied in biosensors for medical diagnostics and food control. Dostálek has authored 11 book chapters and > 100 papers in peer review scientific journals that have received more than 4580 citations according to Scopus.