Michal Cifra, Ph.D.

Research interests:

Bioelectrodynamics, bioelectromagnetics, microtubules, biological electron excited states and ultraweak photon emission, biosignals.

Professional activities:

Membership

• IEEE / IEEE Czechoslovak chapter
• OSA
• SPIE
• Radioengineering society
• URSI

International research experience:

2013 - Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, 1 month

2010 - Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Scholarship, UNICAMP - Campinas, Brazil, 1 month

2006 – 2010 - International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany, 3 months total

2005 - Leonardo Da Vinci project Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology & ELCAT, GmbH, 3 months

2004 - Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology, 1 semester

Education:

• PhD., 2009, Radioelectronics, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia 
• Ing. (M.Sc.), 2006, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Current research projects:

• Photonic biosignals: measurement and characterization

Past research projects:

• Measurement and Analysis of Local Electric Oscillations and Optical Emission of Biomolecular Nanostructures

Awards an honors:

2009 - Diploma from Natural Sciences section of 13th International Student Conference of Electrical Engineering - POSTER

2008 - URSI Young Scientist Award

2008 - Scholarship from foundation of Rectorate of the Czech Technical University in Prague

2007 - Stanislav Hanzl's foundation Scholarship

2007 - Scholarship from Hlávka foundation

2007 - Scholarship from foundation of Rectorate of the  Czech Technical University in Prague

2007 - Scholarship from Czechoslovak section of IEEE

2006 - Student scientific competition - diploma, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Teaching:

• Theory of electromagnetic field (exercises), at the Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague
• Waves and transmission lines (exercises), at the Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague

Publications:

1. Cifra, M. "Electrodynamic eigenmodes in cellular morphology ", BioSystems, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 356–366, 2012
2. Havelka, D., Cifra, M., Kučera, O., Pokorný, J., Vrba, J., "High-frequency electric field and radiation characteristics of cellular microtubule network ", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 286, no. 1, p. 31-40, 2011 
3. Cifra, M., Fields, J. Z., Farhadi, A., "Electromagnetic cellular interactions", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, vol 105, no. 3, p. 223-246, 2011 
4. Pokorný, J., Vedruccio, C., Cifra, M., Kučera, O., "Cancer physics: Diagnostics based on damped cellular elasto-electrical vibrations in microtubules", European Biophysics Journal, vol. 40, no. 6, 747-759, 2011 
5. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Havelka, D., Kučera, O., "Electric field generated by axial longitudinal vibration modes of microtubule", BioSystems, vol. 100, no. 2, p. 122 - 131, 2010 
6. Kučera, O., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., "Technical aspects of measurement of cellular electromagnetic activity", European Biophysics Journal, vol. 39, no. 10, p. 1465-1470, 2010 
7. Cifra, M., "Study of electromagnetic oscillations of yeast cells in kHz and GHz region", PhD Thesis, 2009, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 
8. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Kučera, O., "Vibrations of electrically polar structures in biosystems give rise to electromagnetic field: theories and experiments", In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2009, Moscow, Russia, August 18-21. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2009, p. 138 - 142. ISSN 1559-9450 
9. Jelínek F., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Vaniš, J., Hašek, J., Šimša, J., Frýdlová, I., “Measurement of electrical oscillations and mechanical vibrations of yeast cells membrane around 1 kHz”, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 223 - 232, 2009 
10. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Hašek, J., "Measurement of Yeast Cell Electrical Oscillations around 1 kHz", In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2-6. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2008, p. 780-784. ISSN 1559-9450 
11. Van Wijk, E., Van Wijk, R.,Cifra, M., “Spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission from human hands varies diurnally”, In Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6633 Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science, Jürgen Popp, Gert von Bally, Editors, 2007, Jul. 3, 66331J Cifra, M., Van Wijk, E., Koch, H., Bosman, S., Van Wijk, R., “Spontaneous Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Human Hands Is Time Dependent”, Radioengineering, 2007, Vol. 16, n. 2, p. 15-19, ISSN 1210-2512
12. Cifra, M., “Measurement of spontaneous photon emission from the human body: technical aspects, parameters, time and temperature dependent fluctuations of photon emission”, master degree thesis, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic 

Invited Lectures:

• Biophysical and medical aspects of electromagnetic cellular interactions, 2012, Biophysical Aspects of Complexity in Health and Disease, Lugano, 18-19 May 2012, Switzerland pps file
• Role of organized water in coherence of cellular electrodynamics, 2011, Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, Mount Snow Resort, Vermont, 20-23 October 2011, USA, pps file
• Bioelectrodynamics of cellular organization and interactions, 2011, Electromagnetic fields and Quantum phenomena in the Biological Systems, Poznań, 20 May 2011, Poland
• Role of electromagnetic field in cellular organization and interactions, 2010, Summer School on Biophotonics and Applications of Biophotons, International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany
• Elektromagnetické (EM) pole buněk: role mikrotubulů a mitochondrií, 2009, Microbiology Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Ultra weak photon emission (UPE) from living organisms: aspects of integrative biophysics, 2008, Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

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