Education
2003 – 2009 | PhD degree in particle physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
1998 – 2003 | Master’s degree in particle and nuclear physics, Charles University |
Employment
since 2014 | Junior Researcher, Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University, Olomouc |
2011 – 2013 | Research fellow at ATLAS for the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, based at CERN |
2009 – 2011 | CERN Research Fellow working at the ATLAS experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
2007 – 2008 | Fermi International Fellow at the Dzero Experiment, Fermilab, USA |
2003 – 2009 | Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
Scientific interests
High energy particle physics, Standard Model of particle physics, Physics of the top quark,
Production and properties of top-antitop quark pairs, Differential cross-section measurements, Modelling of hard and soft processes in QCD.
Experimental skills
Jet energy scale calibration and determination, experience with tracking and b-tagging. Statistics in high energy physics, data processing and analysis.
Selected publications
Author of numerous publications for the D0 experiment (Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA) and the ATLAS experiment (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland).
Selected Publications with a primary contribution:
Eur. Phys. J. C76 (2016) 538: “Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the lepton+jets channel in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector”, ATLAS collaboration.
Phys. Rev. D 90, 072004 (2014): “Measurements of normalized differential crosssections for ttbar production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector”, ATLAS collaboration.
Eur. Phys. J. C (2013) 73: 2261: “Measurements of top quark pair relative differential
crosssections with ATLAS in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV”, ATLAS collaboration.
Phys.Lett.B 707 (2012) 418437: “Measurement of the cross section for the production of a W
boson in association with b-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”.
Physics Letters B 693 (2010) 515521: “Dependence of the ttbar production cross section on
the transverse momentum of the top quark”, D0 collaboration.
Proceedings of 17th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2009), Madrid:
“Top Production Cross Sections at D0”.
AIP Conf. Proc. 867 (2006) 43: “Jet energy scale determination at the D0”, for the D0
experiment.
International Experiments
- since 2009 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, ATLAS experiment
- 2003 – 2010 Fermilab, Batavia, USA, D0 experiment
Teaching
- since 2013 Detection techniques in particle physics
- since 2013 Standard model of elementary particles
- since 2014 Quantum mechanics (practice part)
- since 2015 Statistics in High Energy Physics
- since 2016 Relativistic quantum mechanics
- since 2016 Quantum theory of fields