Research Interest

Heavy-ion collisions at collider energies are performed in order to produce and study matter at extremely high temperatures, the quark-gluon plasma. Such an extreme state of matter is believed to have existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang. My focus is on the measurement of jets, collimated sprays of particles, as they can probe that hot and dense medium on a variety of length scales. I have been involved in a variety of pioneering studies, and I am also interested in the phenomenological description of related phenomena.
I am also interested in the physics of ultra-peripheral collisions (the recent measurement of the light-by-light scattering, tau g-2 magnetic moment, BSM searches, and precision QCD using photon-photon interactions).

Research Grants

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships,  H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, grant HPOFHIC – 10103 (20212023). This grant fully supported my research from April 2021 to March 2023. 
• Grant for graduate students of Charles University in Prague (2010 – 2013)

Organization of international conferences

• ATLAS Heavy Ion trigger Workshop, virtual (2020)
• LHCP 2019, Convener of the heavy-ion section, Puebla, Mexico
• International conference ICHEP 2020, IT support, Prague, CZ

Roles in the scientific community

• Journal referee for European Physics Journal C, Physics Letters B
• ATLAS Heavy Ions Working Group Coordinator (October 2021 – September 2023)
• Convener of ATLAS Heavy Ion Jet subgroup (2018-2021)
• ATLAS Trigger Heavy Ion Menu Forum Coordinator (2016-2021)

MC samples

Please see a dedicated page if you are interested in using pre-generated MC samples.