About me
Some of my core mottos.
“Never be afraid of the next adventure even if outside of your comfort zone. Embrace discomfort as your new comfort. That is the way of pioneers.”
“Do what you think is right, keep your direction and never be swayed easily, but listen to advice, practice compassion and build trust.”
“Smile, smile a lot and stay on top of things. Smile with dignity to the World as well as to Your-very-self.”
I beleive that life is more delightful when I am pro-active. I like opportunities and challenges that require creative work and allow me to grow. That is why I like all scientific research, photography, music, writing scientific papers, cooking, writing poetry as well as raising our children. Because at the core of all these activities I find creative work which brings me joy and satisfaction.
We are a scientific family; both me and my wife work as scientists. When we had our first child, my wife was expected to take care and put her PhD research on a second track. I found that unacceptable. In spite of the expectations around us, we shared the care of our lovely toddler and both worked part-time. Why did I decide to do that? Why did I not just take the easier option? Because it was the right thing to do – a real support that all women, not only in science, need. It was a very joyful period of our lives and we managed to obtain our PhD degree at about the same time. At the moment we live in Groningen in the North of the Netherlands, where we perform our research in biotechnology and drug development.
Education & Work experience
- (2022– ) Founder of Protyon, a company with a mission to introduce personalized precision medicine to clinical practice by leveraging the latest scientific advances in computational molecular modeling.
- (2018–2021) Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Siewert-Jan Marrink at the University of Groningen. My work: see current projects.
- (2013–2018) PhD student in the group of prof. Jungwirth at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
- (2008–2013) Masters and Bachelors degree at Charles University in Prague
Research profile and interests:
- Collaborative research that includes various experimental and computational methods bringing high added value
- Biotechnology and drug discovery
- Data science, Machine learning and deep learning in biotechnology
- Biological membranes, model membranes and membrane models, membrane fusion, membrane proteins
- Transmembrane potential of living cells, probes of neural activity
- Fluorescent protein structure determination using polarization microscopy
- Polarizability in classical simulation and Electronic Continuum Correction (ECC)
- Open collaboration research
Skills and Experience
- strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
- pro-active self-motivated attitude
- project management and leadership, mentoring
- presentation skills, tele-conferencing, remote-working
- Molecular Dynamics (MD) simualtions
- data science and machine learning (Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow)
- scientific writing
- coding (Fortran, python, BASH, Git)
- HPC and massively parallel computing
- GPU computing
- cloud computing in research (K8S, Docker, ResOps)
- ab-initio, QM/MM and BO-dynamical calculations
- chemical and biological laboratory experiments
- graphical design of logos, flyers, posters and scientific graphics
- Review Editor of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (my Frontiers profile)