O MNĚ
Personal Information
- NAME
Tomas Mancal
- BORN
April 23, 1974 in Vlasim, Czech Republic
- CITIZENSHIP
Czech Republic
- MARITAL STATUS
Married, two children
Current Affiliations
- SINCE 2021
Associate Professor at the Charles University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics- SINCE 2012
Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports
(Nature Publishing Group)
Past Experience and Research Activities
- 2007-2020
Assistant Professor at the Charles University in Prague,
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 - 2004Postdoctoral 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 - 2002Institute 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.
Education
- 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