Scientific curriculum

Employment history, collaborators, educational activity, supervised students.

Research interests

• Laser based neutron sources, generation of high flux neutron beams.
• Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons, alternative injection schemes, plasma wave dynamics, optimising of electron bunch properties.
• Sources of secondary light from terahertz to X-ray scale, betatron radiation, Thomson backscattering, K-α radiation, all-optical free electron laser, subfemtosecond X-ray pulses.
• Ion acceleration from laser-solid interaction.

Employment history

• from April 2023 on - Research Scientist III - Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics, Măgurele, Romania.
• October 2020 to September 2022 - Postdoctoral researcher - Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Palaiseau, France.
• July 2019 to September 2020 - Postdoctoral researcher - Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 2018-2019 - Postdoctoral researcher - Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia.
• 2013-2018 - Ph.D. Student - Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia.
• 2014-2017 - Ph.D. Student - ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia.

Invited research stays

• February to March 2024 - Invited visiting scientist - Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
• May to June 2019 - Invited visiting scientist - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Collaborators

• Dr. Gabriel Bleotu, Dr. Daniel Ursescu - ELI-NP, Măgurele, Romania.
• Dr. Laurent Gremillet - CEA, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France.
• Prof. Julien Fuchs - LULI, Palaiseau, France.
• Prof. Tünde Fülöp - Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Dr. Julien Ferri - University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Dr. Qiang Chen, Dr. Grigory Golovin - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
• Dr. Giancarlo Gatti - Centro de Laseres Pulsados, Salamanca, Spain.
• Prof. László Veisz - RElativistic Attosecond physics Laboratory (REAL), Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden.
• Dr. Miroslav Krůs, Ing. Dominika Mašlárová - Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia.

Educational history

• Summer semesters 2013-2017 - Tutorial for Numerical methods I, only in Czech. Lecturers: Prof. Ing. Jiří Limpouch, CSc. and Ing. Pavel Váchal, Ph.D.
• Summer semesters 2012 - Tutorial for Introduction to Modern Physics, only in Czech. Lecturer: Prof. Ing. Ladislav Drška, CSc.

Supervised students

• Mr. Bogdan Corobean
  • Doctoral School of Engineering and Applications of High Power Lasers and Accelerators, POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
  • Doctoral Project: Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration and Gamma Generation.
• Mr. Maxim Andronic
  • Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest
  • Master Thesis: Secondary sources of particles and radiation from laser accelerated electrons.
• Mr. Tomáš Kerepecký (co-supervisor, main supervision: Ing. Jaroslav Nejdl, Ph.D.)
  • Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University
  • Bachelor Thesis: Betatron radiation from laser-accelerated relativistic electrons (2015)
  • Research Project: Numerical calculations of inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electrons (2016)
  • Master Thesis: Inverse Compton scattering by laser-accelerated electrons (2017)
• Mrs. Dominika Mašlárová
  • Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University
  • Research Project: Laser driven plasma accelerators of electron bunches (2017)
  • Master Thesis: Influence of bubble dynamics on laser-based plasma electron acceleration (2018)