Ing. Marcela Pechová, PhD.

Ing. Marcela Pechová, PhD.
Department of Material Engineering (KMI): Academic staff

E-mail:

marcela.pechova@tul.cz

Office:

budova D, D 01009

Tel.:

+420 48535 6492

STAG:

STAG profile

Language abilities

english

Consulting Hours

by previous email agreement

Specialisation

• COLORIMETRY 
  • color and appearance measurement and evaluation, visual assessments, testing of complex color appearance models (CIECAM02, CIECAM16, ...). 
  • functional dyes, luminescence and HIGH-VISIBILITY materials measurement and evaluation. 
  • spectrofluorimetry (excitation and fluorescence emission measurement) and UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy. 
• LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY 
  • visual assessments at various adaptive luminance in laboratory and outdoor environment. 
  • pedestrian visibility at low adaptive luminance (personal safety with a focus on the use of high-visibility and retroreflective materials).
  • color vision deficiency and visual acuity testing.
•  TEXTILE TECHNICS AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
  • color fastness tests (Color fastness to artificial light, Color fastness to artificial weathering, Color fastness and ageing to artificial light at high temperatures, Color fastness to domestic and commercial laundering, Color fastness to perspiration, etc., according to ISO and AATCC standards.).
  • preparation and refinement of samples with functional dyes (thermochromic, photochromic, etc.). 
  • luminescent and HIGH-VISIBILITY materials.
  • screen and INJEKT printing.
  • finishing and coating to improve the functionality and durability of materials.
  • dyeing.
  • analytical methods.  

Achieved education

2024 – Course in pedagogy for university teachers, Faculty of science, humanities and education, Technical University of Liberec, certificate

• 2023 – Ph.D. – doctoral studies in Textile Technics and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Textile Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, thesis – Color perception under photopic and mesopic adaptive luminance
• 2015 – Ing. – master degree in Product Engineering, Faculty of Textile Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, thesis – Influence of luminance levels on the discrimination small color differences
• 2012 – Bc. – bachelor degree in Optics and optometry, Faculty of biomedical engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Other appointments

Membership in major scientific and professional societies:

• Member of the Czech Society for Illumination (CSO)

Projects:

• team member of Mastering Efficient Lighting in North Africa project, 101179276 – CBHE MELINA (2025 – 2027).
• team leader in Students grant competition project SGS-2025-6565 – Model for predicting spectral characteristics of textiles (2025).
• team member in Students grant competition project SGS-2023-6385 – Enhancing pedestrian visibility in complex scenes in daytime and nighttime traffic conditions (2023).
• team leader in Students grant competition project SGS-21242 – Visibility at low luminance (2018).
• team member in Students grant competition project SGS-21156 – Effect of spectral distribution decreasing on color discrimination in high-chroma samples (2016).
• member of IA03 projects VAVPI Pre-seed Envitech "Innovative products and environmental technologies" IP3, CZ.1.05./3.1.00/14.0306 (2015).

Open Research and Contributor ID: ORCiD

Scopus (AIS): Author Identifier SCOPUS

Web of Science (RID): ResearcherID

Traineeship:

• Paul Sabatier University (Université Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier), Faculty of Science and Engineering, The Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie (LAPLACE), Toulouse, France (2023).
• Kyoto Institute of Technology, Faculty of Fiber Science and Engineering, Kyoto, Japan (2019).
• University of Boräs, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business (including The Swedish School of Textiles), Department of Textile Technology, Boräs, Sweden (2017).
• University of Granada, Faculty of Science, Department of Optics, Granada, Spain (2016).