prof. Jiří Chýla, CSc.

(born in 1948 Prague)

J. Chýla graduated in 1971 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in the field of subnuclear physics. After completing his one-year military service, he joined the Institute of Physics of the then Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He earned the degree of CSc. in 1977 for Thesis concerning the analysis of data on the collisions of antiprotons with protons obtained at the European Centre for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva.

At the beginning of ‘1980s he started working on the description of hard collisions of elementary particles within quantum chromodynamics, the theory of interactions between quarks which had then been rapidly developing and which has since become one of the pillars of our understanding of the laws of the microworld. He continued working on these problems during his stay at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna near Moscow in 1985-1988. He has concentrated on the development of methods of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and on the description of hard collisions of elementary particles, in the last decade particularly the photons. He has also participated in the analysis of data from the H1 experiment at in the research centre DESY in Hamburg, Germany.

Since 1990 he has read courses on quark model and quantum chromodynamics to graduate students at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. He is a member of the Council of the Doctoral Study Program in Subnuclear Physics at this Faculty as well as of the Commission for State Finals in this field. He has supervised several Diploma and PhD students. In 1994 he habilitated at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and was named professor of subnuclear physics in April 2001. He devotes much attention to reading lectures to secondary school students and training secondary school teachers, in recent years particularly within the Open Science Project launched by the CAS.

During the ‘90s he held a number of positions at the Institute of Physics. He was a Chairman of the Scientific Council, Deputy Director and Head of the Section of Elementary Particle Physics. Since February 2007 until the election to the Academic Council he had been the Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Physics. He coordinates the activities of the Centre for Particle Physics, one of the research centres established by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, which includes beside the Institute of Physics also teams from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University and of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University.

He is representative of the Czech Republic in the European Committee for future synchrotrons ECFA, the body coordinating research of European countries in the field of elementary particle physics. More detailed information about his scientific and pedagogical activities can be found at: http://www-hep2.fzu.cz/-chyla/