Ondřej Kučera, Ph.D.

Research interests:

Biolectrodynamics, high-frequency bio-signals, electromechanical vibrations of microtubules, bioelectromagnetics, nanoscale biophysical characterization methods.

Professional activities:

2014: Member of the Program Committee of YBERC 2014 conference, Bratislava (Pressburg), Slovakia 

2011: Member of the Organizing Committee of EDALC11 conference, Prague, Czechia 

2011: Guest Editor of the Journal of Physics: Conference series 

2011 – 2013: Invited Reviewer – Physics Letters A, BioSystems, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Virology Journal 

2010 – 2012: Elected to the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

International experience:

2013: Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Material Sciences (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, 2 weeks 

2011: Visiting Student Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 1 semester 

2010: Exchange Student, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, 1 week 

2008 – 2013: Active participation in 12 international conferences and 1 winter school

Scholarships and Projects:

2012 and 2010: Stanislav Hanzl's Foundation Scholarship 

2010 – 2011: Grant No. SGS10/179/OHK3/2T/13 Cellular Nano-Electromechanics, Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague – Principal investigator 

2011: Grant No. FRVŠ G1-1761 Signals and Images of Nanoscale World for Teaching of Digital Signal Processing, Grant Agency of the Council of Higher Education Institutions of the Czech Republic – Principal investigator 

2011: EU LLP/Erasmus Scholarship, NTNU Trondheim 

2010: ATHENS Scholarship, IST Lisbon

2010 – 2012: Projects Nos. GD102/08/H008 and P102/11/0649, Czech Science Foundation – Member of the team

Education:

Ph.D., 2012, Electrical Engineering Theory (supervised by P. Sovka & J. Pokorný), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. 

Ing. (M.Sc.) with honors, 2008, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. 

Bc. (B.Sc.), 2006, Electronics and Communication Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Awards:

2014: Werner von Siemens Excellence Award, 1st prize in the category The best dissertation thesis

2010: Diploma (3rd place) from the Natural Sciences section of the 14th International Student Conference of Electrical Engineering - POSTER 2010

2008: Dean's Prize for the outstanding diploma thesis  

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Teaching:

2008 – 2010: Electrical Engineering for Informatics (seminars), Department of Circuit Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

2012 – 2014: Supervisor of 1 bachelor and 1 diploma thesis, reviewer of 1 diploma thesis

Selected publications:

1. D. Havelka, M. Cifra and O. Kučera: Multi-mode electro-mechanical vibrations of a microtubule: In silico demonstration of electric pulse moving along a microtubule. Applied Physics Letters , vol. 104, no. 24, 2014. doi: 10.1063/1.4884118 
2. O. Kučera and M. Cifra: Cell-to-Cell Signaling Through Light: Just a Ghost of Chance? Cell Communication and Signaling, vol. 11, no. 87, 2013. doi:10.1186/1478-811X-11-87
3. O. Kučera and D. Havelka: Mechano-electrical vibrations of microtubules—Link to subcellular morphology. BioSystems, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.04.009
4. O. Kučera, M. Cifra and J. Pokorný: Technical aspects of measurement of cellular electromagnetic activity. European Biophysics Journal, 2010. doi:10.1007/s00249-010-0597-8
5. D. Havelka, O. Kučera, M.A. Deriu and M. Cifra: Electro-acoustic behavior of the mitotic spindle: a semi-classical coarse-grained model. PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086501
6. M. Cifra, J. Pokorný, D. Havelka and O. Kučera: Electric field generated by axial longitudinal vibration modes of microtubule. BioSystems, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.02.007

Invited Lectures:

• Bioelectrodynamics: from biophysics to biomedical applications, 6th Biomedical Engineering Conference of Young Biomedical Engineers and Researchers 2014, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Doubter's Guide to the Bioelectromagnetism, 2nd International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields and Quantum Phenomena in the Biological Systems 2013, Poznan, Poland

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