Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 1989, RNDr., Faculty of Science, UJEP Brno, Solid State Physics
• 1997, Ph.D., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, BUT, Physical and Material Engineering
• 2002, Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering BUT, Applied Physics
• 2012, Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering BUT, Applied Physics

Career overview

• 1989-1993, Specialist, Institute of Scientific Instruments CAS, Brno
• 1993-2002, Assistant Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME BUT
• 2002-2012, Associate Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME BUT
• 2012-present, Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME BUT

Scientific activities

• incoherent holographic microscopy (hiQPI)
• quantitative phase imaging (QPI)
• microscopy of three-dimensional objects
• microscopy in turbid media
• applications of holographic microscopy in living-cell biology
• experimental biophotonics

Non-University activities

• 2003-present, member of the doctoral-study board "Applied physics", Faculty of Science UP Olomouc
• 2005-2006, external member of the Scientific board of ISI AS CR Brno
• 2007-present, external member of the Council of ISI AS CR Brno
• 2007-present, member of the doctoral-study board "Optics and optoelectronics", Faculty of Science UP Olomouc
• 2010-present, member of OSA, SPIE
• 2018-present, member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Prizing by scientific community

• 2013, Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2013, in category The most important result of development / innovation
• 2013, 1st place in Cooperation of the Year competition (AFI, AmCham, TACR)
• 2016, Czech Brains award in the Kapsch Invention Prize category: Invention of Coherence-Controlled Holographic Microscope.
   

Projects

• Image reconstruction of three-dimensional objects by the methods of the holographic confocal microscopy (GACR 202/04/410, 2004-2006)
• Validation of digital holographic microscope in investigations of living
  cell dynamics & completion of new multifunctional instrument (GACR 202/08/0590, 2008-2010)
• Anorganic nanomaterials and nanostructures (MSMT, 2005-2012)
• Multimodal holographic microscope (TIP MIT FR-TI4/660, 2012-2014)
• Center of digital optics (Centers of competence TACR TE01020229, 2012-2019)
• Advances in incoherent holographic microscopy using photonic modeling and principles of singular optics (GACR SP 15-14612S, 2015-2017)

Sum of citations (without self-citations) indexed within SCOPUS

417

Sum of citations (without self-citations) indexed within ISI Web of Knowledge

463