Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 2024, full professor
• 2017, habilitation in Applied physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology
• 2009, PhD., Fakulta strojního inženýrství VUT v Brně, obor Fyzikální a materiálové inženýrství
• 2002, Ing., Fakulta strojního inženýrství VUT v Brně, obor Fyzikální a materiálové inženýrství

Career overview

09/2017 – present: associate professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology

02/2012 –present: senior researcher, Central European Institite of Technology, Brno University of Technology

04/2011 – present: Thermo Fisher Scientific, external consultant

02/2009 – 08/2017: assistant professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology 

07/2008 – 01/2009: assistant, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology 

10/2005 – 06/2008: technical staff, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology 

Pedagogic activities

• Modern Physics (lectures since 2018, tutorials 2014-2017)
• Technology of Low-dimensional structures (lectures since 2018)
• Diagnostics of nanostructures (one lecture within the course since 2012)
• Friday seminar (organization since 2014, 1-2 lectures since 2020)
• Surfaces and Thin Films (tutorials since 2013, biannually)
• Seminar to diploma thesis (tutorials since 2016, biannually)
• Physics I (2004)

• Physics I - laboratory course (2004-2013)
• Physics II - laboratory course (2003-2008, 2010-2011, 2013-2020)
• Physics Praktikum III (2010-2017)

Scientific activities

• Development of instrumentation and methodology for monitoring chemical reactions in real time in an electron microscope
• Multimodal microscopy including other signals than electrons only (e.g. scanning probe microscopy)
• Preparation and analysis of 1D and 2D nanostructures, including modifications and arrangement into spatially organized functional blocks

Projects

• • Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, junior funding scheme 2016-2018, EUR 223k.
  • Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, postdoctoral funding scheme 2012-2015, EUR 59k

  jako co-investigator or similar important role

  • Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, programme Epsilon, TH03020005, “R&D of Bulk Semiconductor Material with Wide Bandgap”, 2018-2020.
  • Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, programme Zeta, TJ01000271, “Development of atomic source for applications in electron microscopy” 2018-2019.
  • Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, programme Trend, FW01010183, “Next Generation of Integrated Atomic Force and Scanning Electron Microscopy”, 2020-2023.
  • Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, programme Národní centra competence, TN01000008, “Center of electron and photonic optics” 2018-2022.

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