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Libor JUHA

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Date and place of birth

    28 February 1964, Krnov, Czech Republic

Marital status

    Married, two children

Current position

    Researcher in the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (1992–present). Staff member of the Gas Lasers and Laser Plasma Departments (1993–present) and Prague Asterix Laser System Laboratory (1999–present; since 2003 also a part-time position in the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences).

Education

    Czech Technical University (Prague), M.Sc. in Nuclear Chemistry, 1987. Additional coursework in Photochemistry, Photophysics, Radiation Chemistry and Physics, Laser Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy, and Plasma Physics during undergraduate and PhD studies. Ph.D. from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering Physics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (April 1995; Thesis: Ultraviolet and Near Infrared Radiation Assisted Ion Transport in Membrane and Ion Exchange Systems).

Honors and activities

    Award of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for the best student scientific work, 1987. Member of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists and of the Czech Chemical Society. Guest-editor of Fullerene Science and Technology special issue entitled “Fullerene Research in the Czech Republic.” Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for outstanding young scientists – the Wichterle prize, 2002.

Professional and research experience

    Permanent position in the Gas Lasers Department (since the beginning of 2003 renamed Laser Plasma Department) of the Institute of Physics in Prague (Photochemical and Photophysical Applications of Gas Lasers; Characterization and Use of Soft X-ray and XUV/EUV Emission from Hot Dense Plasmas; Laser-Driven Shock Waves; Chemical Effects of Laser Sparks). Three research visits (October–November 1993, February–March 1995, June–November 1999) to the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH-ITE), Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Photochemistry, Photophysics, and Nonlinear Optics of All-Carbon Clusters). Sixteen months of postdoctoral research at the Fachhochschule Regensburg, Germany (starting March 1996, supported by fellowship from the Konferenz der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften; Interaction of High-Power Excimer Laser Radiation with Matter; Laser-Driven Ion Sources). One year (starting December 1997) of postdoctoral research at the Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (Photophysics and Photochemistry of All-Carbon Clusters). One-year stay (starting May 2002) at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany (Interaction of Intense XUV Radiation with Matter).