Jiri Svoboda
Since October 2011, Jiri is a postdoctoral researcher at European Spain Astronomy Center (ESAC) of ESA in Spain.
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Jiri Svoboda is a post-doc at the Prague Relativistic Astrophysics Group. He investigates the innermost parts of accretion discs of active galactic nuclei and black hole binaries by examining reflection features in their X-ray spectra observed with recent X-ray satellites. He got his Ph.D. degree from Charles University in Prague in June 2010.
X-ray observations of active galactic nuclei and black-hole binaries offer a unique laboratory for testing the general relativity in the strong gravity regime, for studying accretion physics around black holes, and for constraining properties of accreting black holes. In the Thesis "Looking into the inner black hole accretion disc with relativistic models of iron line", I discussed black hole spin measurements employing the relativistic iron line profiles in the X-ray domain. I used the data from the XMM-Newton satellite, as well as I performed simulations of the data for the oncoming X-ray satellites.