Petr Šácha

CV

Education:

10/2012-01/2017: PhD in Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (MFF UK), Czech Republic.
Doctoral thesis: New Perspective on the Role of Gravity Waves in the Stratospheric Dynamics and Variability (Supervisor - Prof. Petr Pišoft, Ph.D.).

Position(s):

06/2022 – present: Academic Researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic.
2022 - present: Member of the University center for mathematical modeling, applied analysis and computational mathematics.
01/2019-06/2022: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria (“no money” MSCA funding from MŠMT).
02/2017-12/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Physics Laboratory, University of Vigo, Spain

Projects:

PI: Czech Science Foundation (GACR) Junior Star grant n. 23-04921M, Unravelling climate impacts of atmospheric internal gravity waves, 1.1.2023-31.12.2027, net funding: 630 000 EUR. https://kfa.mff.cuni.cz/en/groups/gravity-wave-group

Current supervised PhD students:

Zuzana Procházková
Radek Zajíček
Massimo Martina
Dominika Hájková

Significant international activities:

Since 2024: Co-lead of the Gravity wave topical group of A-RIP (Atmospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate Reanalysis Intercomparison Project).
Since 2023: Co-lead of the Waves and Dynamics working group of the international research programme Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains – programme and experiment (TEAMx).
2024: Coordinator of the DynVarMIP CMIP7 data request.
Since 2022: Member of the of the international team on Impacts of Climate Change on the Middle and Upper Atmosphere and Atmospheric Drag of Space Objects at the International Space Science Institute, Bern (ISSI).
2018 – 2021: Member of the of the international team on New Quantitative Constraints on Orographic Gravity Wave Stress at ISSI Bern.

Peer recognition:

Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (IF 6.3) - the open-access flagship journal of the European Geophysical Union.
Reviewer for U.S. National Science Foundation.
2022 Outstanding Reviewer for JGR: Atmospheres (IF 4.261).
Reviewer to several scientific journals including Nature family of journals, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
Author of 8 invited presentations at conferences and colloquia of foreign institutions.

Scientific performance:

Author and co-author of 28 peer-reviewed publications in impacted international journals. H-index: 10 (WoS, 2025), Number of citations: 304 (WoS, 2025).

Research

I am interested in the dynamical interaction of atmospheric flows with the orography (orographic gravity waves in particular) and in the representation of this interaction in global circulation models. Further, I am active in the research of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and stratospheric dynamics in general and in analysis of structural changes and trends of the atmosphere in the course of the climate change.