Jan Benáček - personal web
Jan Benáček is a postdoct at Institute of Physics and Astronomy at University of Potsdam. He is working with particle-in-cell simulations of coherent radio emissions of pulsars, fast radio bursts, and solar flares.
Employment History
| 01/2023–now | Research assistant, PI of German Research Agency (DFG) grant Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 04/2020–11/2022 | Research assistant ZAA, Technical University of Berlin, Germany WG: Prof. Büchner / Prof. Breitschwerdt |
| 01/2018–03/2020 | Research specialist Department of theoretical physics and astrophysics Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| 01/2016–07/2019 | Head of development Gatema a.s., Brno, Czech Republic |
| 08/2014–12/2015 | System engineer Gatema a.s., Brno, Czech Republic |
Education
| 2015–2019 | PhD in Astrophysics Department of theoretical physics and astrophysics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Thesis: “Particle-in-cell simulations and analytical study of the processes generating radio solar bursts” Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Marian Karlický, DrSc. |
| 2013–2015 | Master in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Department of theoretical physics and astrophysics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Thesis: “Hydrodynamical study of the disc around rotating stars” Supervisor: Mgr. Viktor Votruba, Ph.D. |
| 2010–2013 | Bachelor in Physics Department of theoretical physics and astrophysics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Thesis: “Study of the light curves of the astronomical objects with the help of data-mining methods” Supervisor: Mgr. Viktor Votruba, Ph.D. |
Awards
- Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 2020.
“For the best students of doctoral study programs.” - Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 2018.
“For an important result of research, development or other creative activity.” - Company Award for the employee of the year, Gatema a.s., 2016.
“For outstanding taking over of the head developer leader after the resignation of head developer and successful continuation of the required development activities.”
Grants and Supports
- PI of German Research Agency (DFG) grant “Constraining pulsar and fast radio burst emission models by utilizing particle-in-cell simulations” at University of Potsdam, Germany, 01/2023 – 12/2025.
- Third-party funding award for Postdocs, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 2023.
- PI of seed funding at TU Berlin “ERC Strategy for preparation of proposal for ERC Starting Grant,”” 2022.
- PI of computational project “Revealing coherent radio emission sources in neutron star magnetospheres” SuperMUC-NG, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany, 2024–2026, 30 M core-hours. Project ID: pn52ku.
- PI of computational project “Pulsar radio emissions of electron–positron plasmas by massively parallel PIC-code simulations,” SuperMUC-NG, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany, 2021–2024, 28.9 M core-hours. Project ID: pn73ne.
- PI of computational project “Particle-in-cell simulations of the kinetic processes in the transition region in the solar atmosphere,” Supercomputer Salomon at IT4Innovations, Czech Republic, 2019–2020, 530 k core-hours. Project ID: OPEN-17-41.
- PI of computational project “Evolution of electron distribution functions in solar radio zebras,” Supercomputer Salomon at IT4Innovations, Czech Republic, 2018–2019, 580 k core-hours. Project ID: OPEN-13-34.
- PI of computational project “3D particle-in-cell simulations of the magnetic reconnection in solar flares,” Supercomputer Salomon at IT4Innovations, Czech Republic, 2018, 250 k core-hours. Project ID: OPEN-12-47.
- Grant PI (half of the project) and development leader: Leading of up to 9 member development team for Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade ICT a SS grant, “Development of medical cloud platform for sharing information,” 2016–2019.