My recent lectures and talks

College Public Science Symposium: "Tell your research story"

In 2021, I was awarded one of the IU Bicentennial Public Science and Math Award Lectures for science popularisation.

Lecture Day with Astropis

Popular lecture in Czech on the evolution of black holes in star clusters, presented at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Astropis

As an Editor and Author, I regularly write about astronomical observations and news, or popularise my own research for the Czech audience. I also interviewed several famous physicists for Astropis:

– Nobel Prize laureates Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, William Phillips, Wolfgang Ketterle, John Mather, and James Peebles

– Czech astronaut Aleš Svoboda, and ESA astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Matthias Maurer

Book author

O zmizelé hvězdě (Star that disappeared), Aventinum, 2024

Can a star just disappear from the sky? Well, my own fairy tale, inspired by the research work I did in 2020–21, will answer this and also take you on a journey through the constellation of Orion. I'd like to say more but don't want to spoil it!

Perseus a Andromeda (Perseus and Andromeda), Aventinum, 2025

The first part of the book tells the classic myth about Perseus, Andromeda and Medusa and others. The second part of the book will guide you through the night sky to see all constellations central to this story, show you how the ancient Greeks viewed the world and where Perseus travelled.

Book translations

Al-Khalili: The World According to Physics

Mlodinow: Stephen Hawking – A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

Percivaldi: Celestial Atlases – A Journey into the Sky via the Golden Age of Cartography