RNDr. Milan Paluš, DrSc.

(born in 1963 Bojnice, Slovakia)

Milan Paluš graduated in mathematical physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in 1986. In 1992, he defended CSc. (a PhD. equivalent) in Computer Science and was awarded the Fogarthy International Research Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health – a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for Complex Systems Research, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana (fall 1992) and with the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, USA (1993–1994). From 1995 he is a researcher, from 2003 a senior researcher with the Institute of Computer Science ASCR. In 1996 he visited the School of Mathematics of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; in 1998, the Newton Institute, Cambridge University. In 2001, he defended Doctor of Science (DrSc.) degree in Computer Science and Theoretical Cybernetics and became an expert for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft priority program Mathematische Methoden der Zeitreihenanalyse und digitalen Bildverarbeitung. In 2002 he received “Otto Wichterle Award” of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

His research activities are focused on study of complex nonlinear systems and development of mathematical methods and computer algorithms for analysis of multivariate, nonlinear time series with applications in processing of biomedical, namely neurophysiological signals (EEG, MEG, fMRI), and also in analyses of long-term meteorological recordings in studies of changing climate. He published more then 50 journal papers, 10 monograph chapters, overall about 90 publications with more 600 records in the Science Citation Index. As a PI he involved his team in two European projects – FP6 project BRACCIA (Brain, Respiration and Cardiac Causalities in Anaesthesia) and FP7 project BrainSync (Large-scale interactions in brain networks and their breakdown in brain diseases). He appeared in popular science shows of Czech public TV and radio.