Program Committee
doc.
RNDr. Oldřich Semerák, Ph.D.
Chair of Doctoral studies board F1 –
Theoretical Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics
doc.
RNDr. Karel Houfek, Ph.D.
Head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Bc.
Lenka Knotková
Administrative support
Students
Students who applied through this website starting from the year 2020.
Entering in 2025
Entering in 2024
| Name | Nationality | Advisor | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Čepil | Czechia | Michal Macek (ISI CAS Brno) | Quantum phase transitions and non-linear dynamics in systems of trapped cold ions |
| Andrea de Marco | Sweden | Joris Raeymaekers (CEICO IP CAS) | Holography and quantum black holes |
| Atabak Fathe Jalali | Italy | Alexander Vikman (CEICO IP CAS) | Playing with ghosts |
| Dominik Černý | Czechia | Jaroslav Haas (AI MFF CUNI) | Star clusters and their evolution |
| Emanuele Guardati | Italy | Tomáš Procházka (CEICO IP CAS) | Quantum phase transitions and non-linear dynamics in systems of trapped cold ions |
| Hryhorii Ovcharenko | Ukraine | Jiří Podolský (ITP MFF CUNI) | Study of exact spacetimes |
| Marek Kuchař | Czechia | Michal Macek (ISI CAS Brno) | Quantum phase transitions and non-linear dynamics in systems of trapped cold ions |
| Michal Staňo | Slovakia | Vojtěch Pravda (IM CAS) | Exact solutions to modified theories of gravity |
Entering in 2023
| Name | Nationality | Advisor | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poula Tadros Nashed | Egypt | Ivan Kolář (ITP MFF CUNI) | Higher derivatives and nonlocality in gravity |
| Álvaro Rafael Martínez Gómez | Ecuador | Vojtěch Witzany (ITP MFF CUNI) | New horizons in back-reaction |
| Chiara Bindi | Italy | Jaroslav Haas (AI MFF CUNI) | Star clusters and their evolution |
| David Vokrouhlický | Czechia | Constantinos Skordis (CEICO IP CAS) | Cosmological structure formation |
Entering in 2022
| Name | Nationality | Advisor | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ujjwal Agarwal | India | Sante Carloni (ITP MFF CUNI) | New theoretical frameworks for compact objects and their perturbations |
| Cynthia Belen Arias Pruna | Ecuador | David Kubizňák (ITP MFF CUNI) | Hidden Symmetries and Black Hole Chemistry |
| Iris Bermejo Lozano | Spain | Daniela Korčáková (AI MFF CUNI) | Circumstellar Matter of B-type Stars |
| Vinícius Bernardes da Silva | Brazil | Theodore Erler (CEICO IP CAS) | Formal String Field Theory |
| Despoina Farakou | Greece | Constantinos Skordis (CEICO IP CAS) | Cosmological effects of Dark Matter |
| Alberto Gálvez Ureña | Spain | Federico Urban (CEICO IP CAS) | Cosmology and ultra-high energy cosmic rays |
| Mukeshkumar Prakash Khanore | India | Václav Janiš (IP CAS) | Renormalized perturbation theory of strongly correlated electrons: Critical phenomena in low-dimensional systems |
| Jana Menšíková | Czechia | David Kubizňák (ITP MFF CUNI) | Classical and Quantum Aspects of Black Holes |
| Srija Reddy Muthyala | India | Anabella Araudo (IP CAS) | Preparation of CTA observatory and early science |
| Shayoni Panja | India | Alexey Yushkov (CEICO IP CAS) | Study of mass composition of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays using hybrid data of the Pierre Auger Observatory and AugerPrime |
Entering in 2021
| Name | Nationality | Advisor | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angelica Albertini | Italy | Georgios Loukes Gerakopoulus (ASU CAS) | Traces of chaos in gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals |
| Kunal Bhardwaj | India | Asen Christov (IP CAS) | Multi-messenger studies with Vera C. Rubin Observatory data |
| Jakub Cehula | Slovakia | Ondřej Pejcha (ITP MFF CUNI) | Theory of binary star interactions |
| Suryani Guha | India | Michaela Kraus (ASU CAS) | Pulsations in evolved massive stars |
| Anthony Kirilov | Bulgaria | Ondřej Pejcha (ITP MFF CUNI) | Radiation hydrodynamics of transients associated with binary star interactions |
| Šimon Knoška | Slovakia | Robert Švarc (ITP MFF CUNI) | Non-twisting geometries in general relativity and its extensions |
| David Kokoška | Czechia | Marcello Ortaggio (IM CAS) | Exact solutions of modified theories of gravity |
| Pavel Kůs | Czechia | Federico Urban (CEICO IP CAS) | Pulsars as a cosmological tool |
| Anna Morozova | Ukraine | Martin Schnabl (CEICO IP CAS) | Topics in open and closed string field theory |
| Shefali Negi | India | Jan Ebr (IP CAS) | Non-invasive atmospheric monitoring not only for large observatories |
| Paolo Rossi | Italy | Joris Raeymaekers (CEICO IP CAS) | Holography in three dimensions |
| Florian Rouge | Switzerland | Martin Schnabl (CEICO IP CAS) | Applied string field theory |
| Kuljeet Saddal | India | Dieter Nickeler (ASU CAS) | Astrospheres – stellar wind bubbles as topological borders to the interstellar medium |
| Nikolaos Samaras | Greece | Pavel Kroupa (AI MFF CUNI) | The origin of galaxies |
| Hanjie Tan | China | Josef Ďurech (AI MFF CUNI) | Reconstruction of asteroid physical properties from large sky surveys |
| Henriette Wirth | Germany | Ladislav Šubr (AI MFF CUNI) | The stellar populations of globular clusters |
Entering in 2020
| Name | Nationality | Advisor | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Srinivasan Aravindhan | India | Marcello Ortaggio (IM CAS) | Gravity in higher dimensions |
| Claudia Caputo | Italy | Oldřich Semerák (ITP MFF CUNI) | Geodesic chaos in perturbed black-hole fields |
| Nicholas Carabine | UK | Renann Lipinski Jusinskas (CEICO IP CAS) | Superstring vertex operators in AdS backgrounds |
| Camille Landri | France | Ondřej Pejcha (ITP MFF CUNI) | Theory and observations of two stars undergoing strong interaction or merger |
| Milan Pešta | Slovakia | Ondřej Pejcha (ITP MFF CUNI) | Illuminating binary star evolution with observed populations and theoretical modeling |
| Vajiheh Sabz Ali | Iran | Richard Wünsch (ASU CAS) | Modelling optically dark clouds in clusters of galaxies |
| Marko Šegon | Croatia | Jiří Borovička (ASU CAS) | Composition of cometary dust from fireball observations |
| Özlem Taspinar | Turkey | Oldřich Semerák (ITP MFF CUNI) | Acceleration of particles in black-hole backgrounds |
| Georg Trenkler | Austria | Ignacy Wolak-Sawicki (CEICO IP CAS) | Testing gravity with cosmology |
| George Turner | UK | Vojtěch Pravda (IM CAS) | Exact solutions in extended theories of gravity |
| Anastasiya Yilmaz | Turkey | Jiří Svoboda (ASU CAS) | Accretion states of black holes across their mass |
