ABOUT ME

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SINCE 2021: Associate Professor at the Charles University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
SINCE 2012: Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports
(Nature Publishing Group)

2007-2020: Assistant Professor at the Charles University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Main topics: Non-linear optical spectroscopy of dye molecules and photosynthetic complexes, effects of coherence in energy transfer in open quantum systems.
2014: Visiting Professor (6 months), Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 - 2006: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, group of Prof. Graham R. Fleming. Main topics: Simulations of two-dimensional optical coherent spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems

2003 - 2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, group of Prof. Graham R. Fleming: Theory of two-dimensional optical spectroscopy and two-color photon echo peak shift.

1998 - 2002: Institute of Physics of the Humboldt-University at Berlin, group of Prof. Roland Zimmermann under supervision of Dr. Volkhard May: Non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, optimal control theory of electron transfer.

2002: PhD in Physics
Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany
Thesis: Laser Pulse Control of Dissipative Dynamics in Molecular Systems Supervisor: Dr. Volkhard May
1997: MSc (Mgr.) in Physics
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Thesis: Solution of Generalized Master Equation for a Model System in Interaction with hermodynamic Bath (in Czech) Supervisor: Prof. Lubomir Skala