Ing. Jiří Houška, Ph.D.
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Personal information
Date of birth 13th August 1979
Place of birth Rokycany, Czech Republic
Marital status Single
Nationality Czech

Contact details
Postal address Department of Physics (room UF 220)
Faculty of Applied Sciences
University of West Bohemia
Univerzitni 22
30614 Plzen
Czech Republic
E-mail jhouska (at) kfy.zcu.cz
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http://home.zcu.cz/~jhouska

Phone (+420) 377632218
Fax ((+420) 377632202

Employment
 since 4/2009 Research fellow
Department of Physics
University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic)
responsible for: PVD deposition system, ab-initio calculations, ellipsometry,                             teaching
 
 3/2007-3/2009 Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Engineering Physics
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada)
responsible for: ab-initio calculations, classical MD calculations, mass                                     spectroscopy

 1/2003-2/2007 Research fellow
Department of Physics
University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic)
responsible for: PVD deposition system, ab-initio calculations, mass                                         spectroscopy, teaching
 
Education
 3/2004-3/2007  Graduate Studies in Physics (Ph.D.)
University of Sydney (Australia)
School of Physic, Department of Applied and Plasma Physics
study field: Molecular dynamics simulations of amorphous materials

(joint programme of UWB and USYD, for thesis see below)


 9/2002-1/2007 Graduate Studies in Physics (Ph.D.)
University of West Bohemia in Plzen (Czech Republic)
Applied Sciences and Computer Science
study field: Plasma physics and physics of thin films
doctoral thesis: New quaternary amorphous materials  Si-B-C-N:                                           reactive magnetron sputtering and an ab-initio study

 9/1997-6/2002 Undergraduate Studies in Physics (Ing. = M.Sc.), graduated with honours
University of West Bohemia in Plzen (Czech Republic)
Mathematical and Physical Engineering
study field: Applied sciences and physical engineering
diploma thesis: Reactive Magnetron Sputtering of Si- and C-based Thin                                  Films

 9/1993-5/1997 1. Gymnazium Plzen (high school) in Plzen (Czech Republic)
1996 (Oslo, Norway) and 1997 (Sudbury, Canada) member of Czech team at the "International Physics Olympiad"

Languages
English good knowledge, IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam before total 3 years in Australia and Canada
German, French basic knowledge

Other skills

PC Windows/Linux, MS Office, Origin, Corel
(super)computer atomistic simulations CPMD, PWSCF, LAMMPS, DLPOLY
software development C, Pascal

Other interests

Chess, literature, tourism, music