Jan Souček

Function: Deputy Head of the Dpt.
Email:
Phone: +420 267 103 052
Room: G 343

Education:

 - Fakulta Jaderná a Fyzikálně Inženýrská, ČVUT, Praha.
Specializace: matematická fyzika. Titul Ing. získán v roce 2000.
 - Titul Ph.D v oboru kosmická fyzika získán v roce 2005 na
Université d"Orléans (Francie) a MFF UK v Praze.
Název dizertace: "Statistical analysis of wave decay process upstream of the terrestrial bow shock"

Employment and academic experience:

- od roku 1999 zaměstnán v ÚFA AV ČR.
- 2006 - 2007:  Výzkumný pracovník na Imperial College, Londýn, UK
- 2010 - 2011:  Research Fellow, ESTEC, Evropská kosmická agentura (ESA), Holandsko

Professional interests:

- Fyzika kosmického plazmatu: analýza a interpretace družicových dat (Cluster, Themis, STEREO)
- Vývoj měřících přístrojů pro družice a kosmické sondy (Solar Orbiter)

Selected publications:

  • Sundkvist, D. ; Krasnoselskikh, V. ; Bale, S. D. ; Schwartz, S. J. ; Souček, Jan ; Mozer, F., 2012: Dispersive Nature of High Mach Number Collisionless Plasma Shocks: Poynting Flux of Oblique Whistler Waves, Physical Review Letters, 108, 2, pp. 025002/1-025002/4
  • Souček, Jan ; Escoubet, C. P., 2012: Predictive model of magnetosheath plasma flow and its validation against Cluster and THEMIS data, Annales Geophysicae, 30, 6, pp. 973-982
  • Taylor, M. G. G. T. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Lavraud, B. ; Phan, T. ; Escoubet, C. P. ; Dunlop, M. W. ; Bogdanova, Y.V. ; Borg, A. L. ; Volwerk, M. ; Berchem, J. ; Constantinescu, O. D. ; Eastwood, J. P. ; Masson, A. ; Laakso, H. ; Souček, Jan ; Fazakerley, A. N. ; Frey, H. U. ; Panov, E.V. ; Shen, C. ; Shi, J. K. ; Sibeck, D. G. ; Pu, Z. Y. ; Wang, J. ; Wild, J. A., 2012: Spatial distribution of rolled up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices at Earth"s dayside and flank magnetopause, Annales Geophysicae, 30, 6, pp. 1025-1035
  • Souček, Jan ; Escoubet, C. P., 2011: Cluster observations of trapped ions interacting with magnetosheath mirror modes, Annales Geophysicae, 29, pp. 1049-1060
  • Comisel, H. ; Scholer, M. ; Souček, Jan ; Matsukiyo, S., 2011: Non-stationarity of the quasi-perpendicular bow shock: comparison between Cluster observations and simulations, Annales Geophysicae, 29, 2, pp. 263-274
  • Briand, C. ; Souček, Jan ; Henri, P. ; Mangeney, A. , 2010: Waves at the electron plasma frequency associated with solar wind magnetic holes: STEREO/Cluster observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. A12113/1-A12113/11
  • Shi, Q. Q. ; Pu, Z. Y. ; Souček, Jan ; Zong, Q. -G. ; Fu, S. Y. ; Xie, L. ; Chen, Y. ; Zhang, H. ; Li, L. ; Xia, L. D. ; Liu, Z. X. ; Lucek, E. ; Fazakerley, A. N. ; Reme, H., 2009: Spatial structures of magnetic depression in the Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, pp. A10202/1-A10202/13
  • Souček, Jan ; Santolík, Ondřej ; Dudok de Wit, T. ; Pickett, J. S., 2009: Cluster multispacecraft measurement of spatial scales of foreshock Langmuir waves, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, pp. A02213/1-A02213/11
  • Souček, Jan ; Lucek, E. ; Dandouras, I., 2008: Properties of magnetosheath mirror modes observed by Cluster and their response to changes in plasma parameters, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 113, A4, pp. A04203/1-A04203/14
  • Krasnoselskikh, V. V. ; Lobzin, V. V. ; Musatenko, K. ; Souček, Jan ; Pickett, J. S. ; Cairns, I. H., 2007: Beam-plasma interaction in randomly inhomogeneous plasmas and statistical properties of small-amplitude Langmuir waves in the solar wind and electron foreshock, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, A10, pp. A10109/1-A10109/12
  • Musatenko, K. ; Lobzin, V. ; Souček, Jan ; Krasnoselskikh, V. V. ; Décréau, P., 2007: Statistical properties of small-amplitude Langmuir waves in the Earth’s electron foreshock, Planetary and Space Science, 55, 15, pp. 2273-2280
  • Chugunov, Yu. V. ; Fiala, Vladimír ; Souček, Jan ; Santolík, Ondřej, 2006: Noise induced on an electric antenna and its effective length in solar wind: Application to CLUSTER observations, Advances in Space Research, 37, 8, pp. 1538-1543
  • Souček, Jan ; Krasnoselskikh, V. ; Dudok de Wit, T. ; Pickett, J. ; Kletzing, C., 2005: Nonlinear decay of foreshock Langmuir waves in the presence of plasma inhomogeneities: Theory and Cluster observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, A8, pp. A08102/1-A08102/10

Projects:

  • GAČR P209/12/2394, Úloha nízkofrekvenčních plazmových vln v globální dynamice planetárních magnetosfér, 2012-2016. Investigator: Souček, J.