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RNDr. Jana Bielčíková, Ph.D. (born Slívová)

Research Interests

nuclear matter under extreme conditions, strange particle, heavy-flavor particle and jet production in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies: ALICE experiment at the LHC (CERN) and STAR experiment at RHIC (BNL)

Education

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Ph.D., Nuclear and Particle Physics, September 2003
Doctoral Thesis: “Azimuthal correlations of high-p_T pions in 158 AGeV/c Pb-Au collisions measured by the CERES/NA45 experiment”
Advisor:  Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Wurm (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany)

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Mgr. (MSc.), Nuclear and Particle Physics, May, 1997
Master’s Thesis: “Properties of odd Ru isotopes studied by γ-ray spectroscopy”
Advisor: Dr. Milan Honusek (Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez, Czech Republic)

Academic Experience

• Research Scientist (part time),                                                                  2018 –
  Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering,
  CTU Prague, Czech Republic

• Department chair,                                                                                       2017 –
  Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy,
  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Czech Republic     

• Group leader,                                                                                               2013 – 2017
  Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Group, Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy,
  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Czech Republic                         

• Senior Scientist,                                                                                            2012 – 
  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Czech Republic     

• Scientist,
  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Czech Republic                             2007 – 2012 

• Postdoctoral Research Associate,                                                               2004 – 2007
  Yale University, USA, group of prof. Dr. John Harris       

• Postdoctoral Associate,                                                                                 2003 – 2004
  University of Heidelberg, Germany, group of prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel                                                               

• Research Assistant,                                                                                        2000 – 2002
  University of Heidelberg, Germany, group of prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel         

• Research Assistant,                                                                                        1997 – 2000
  Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany,
  group of Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Wurm  

• Student research assistant,                                                                           1993 – 1997
  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Czech Republic     

Honors and Awards

• Certificate of Merit for work with secondary school students,
  The Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 2018

• Otto Wichterle Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2008

Scientific journal refereeing

• referee of Physics Letters B
• referee of European Physics Journal C

Membership in Scientific Collaborations

• STAR Collaboration, RHIC, BNL                           

          chair of the STAR Council                                                        2021 –
          chair of the STAR Talks Committee                                       2015 – 2018
          NPI STAR Council representative                                           2012 –
          convener of the High-p_T /Jet-like Physics Working Group  2007 – 2009
          member of the STAR Talks Committee                                  2007 – 2008
          member                                                                                      2004 –

• ALICE Collaboration, LHC, CERN                                                                     

          member of the ALICE Thesis Award Committee    2021 –
          member of the ALICE Editorial Board                      2017 – 2019
          convener of the Physics Working Group of Jets     2013 – 2015
          member                                                                        2007 –

• CERES/NA45 Collaboration, SPS, CERN                                                           

          member   1997 – 2004

Membership in Committees/Organizations/Grant Agencies Abroad

• European Commission, H2020, evaluation panel                                                      2018 
• Physics Advisory Committee, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany                               2017 –
• Comparative Research Review of Heavy-Ion Physics,                                               2013
  Department of Energy, Washington, USA                                                            
• RHIC/AGS Users Executive Committee                                                             2008 – 2010
• American Physical Society                                                                                  2004 – 2007

Membership in Committees/Organizations/Grant Agencies in Czech Republic

• Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Chair of Panel 203                                2019 – 2021  
• Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Deputy chair of Panel 203                   2017 – 2019
• Deputy chair of the NPI CAS Board, Czech Republic                                        2017 –
• Member of the INGO/Inter-Excellence grant advisory panel,                         2014 –      
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                                       
• Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicist, Czech Physics Society          2007 –

Publications

Author and co-author of more than 530 scientific publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

Full list of publications  

Conference Presentations

58 public presentations including 40 talks at conferences and workshops, 14 seminars at universities and laboratories, and 4 posters.

Research Grants

• Large Infrastructure project LM2018109
  “Brookhaven National Laboratory - participation of the Czech Republic”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                    2019 – 2022

• Inter-Excellence/Inter-Transfer LTT18002
  “Study of new properties of nuclear matter at the STAR experiment”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                    2018 – 2022

• OPVVV CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16013/0001569
  "Brookhaven National Laboratory - participation of the Czech Republic”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                     2017 – 2020

• Large Infrastructure project LM2015054
  “Brookhaven National Laboratory - participation of the Czech Republic”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                     2016 – 2019

• INGO research grant LG15001
  “Participation of the Czech Republic in experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                     2015 – 2017

• Barrande-Mobility research grant, France-Czech Republic, 7AMB14FR,
  ”Hadronization mechanisms in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC via the flavour composition of jets“,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                     2014 – 2015

• GACR research grant 13-20841S,
  “Study of nuclear matter in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC”,
  Grant Agency of the Czech Republic                                                                        2013 – 2016

• INGO research grant LA09013,
  “Participation of the Czech Republic in the STAR experiment, BNL, USA”,
  Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic                                     2009 – 2012

Teaching

Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

• Introduction to Electroweak Interactions, lecture                                     2012 –
• Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics, lecture                               2008 –
• Experimental tests of Quark Gluon Plasma, seminar                               2008 –
• Seminar on Quark Gluon Plasma, seminar                                                2008 –
• Advanced Physics Lab Course                                                                      2007 – 2008

Department of Physics, Yale University, USA

• instructor in Physics 166b lab course, 1 semester                                                 2005

Faculty of Astronomy and Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany            2000 – 2003

• assistant in Advanced Practical Physics Course II, 2 semesters
• assistant in Practical Physics Course I, 1 semester
• teaching assistant in physics exercises supplemented to Physics B lectures, 1 semester
• teaching assistant in physics exercises supplemented to Physics A lectures, 1 semester

Advisor of Ph.D./Msc./Bc. Theses

Ph.D.:  J. Rusňák (advisor, 2010 – 2017), RHIC/AGS Best Thesis Award 2018
            V. Kučera (advisor, 2012 – 2016), ALICE Thesis Award 2017
            M. Vajzer (co-advisor, 2015)
            M. Šimko (co-advisor, 2013 – )
            J. Vaněk (co-advisor, 2017 – )
            R. Líčeník (advisor, 2019 – )

MSc.:  V. Prozorova (2020), M. Kocmánek (2017), V. Pacík (2016), Z. Barnovská (2012), Kučera (2012),
           M. Sloboda (2011), J. Rusňák (2010), J. Král (2008), Zycháček (2008); Robotková (2019 –),
           G. Ponimatkin (2019 –), J. Mrázková (2020 –)

Bc.:  J. Bobek (2020), J. Mrázková (2020), M. Robotková (2019), G. Ponimatkin (2019), Agafonova (2017),
        M. Kocmánek (2015), K. Moudrá (2013)

Conference and Workshop Organization

• 40^th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2020), Czech Republic,   2020
  co-chair of conference program committee, member of local organization committee                     

• 30^th Indian Summer School, “Phenomenology of Hot and Dense Matter for Future Accelerators”, 2018
  Czech Republic, international summer school, co-organizer                                                       

• Hot Quarks 2018, Netherlands, international workshop, co-organizer                             2018
• Hot Quarks 2016, USA, international workshop, co-organizer                                            2016
• Hot Quarks 2014, Spain, international workshop, co-organizer                                         2014
• High-p_T Physics at RHIC and LHC, international workshop, member of IAC          2014, 2015

• 25^th Indian Summer School, “Understanding Hot and Dense QCD Matter”,                     2013 
  Czech Republic, international summer school, co-organizer                

• “Jets in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions”, Czech Republic,                          2010
  international workshop, co-organizer                       
• “Three Kings Conference/Trikralova konference”,                                                      2008 –
  conference of Czech and Slovak physicists, co-organizer         

• STAR Collaboration Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic                                               2011, 2021
• STAR Collaboration Meeting, Cracow, Poland                                                                       2019 
• STAR Regional Meetings                                                                                               2013 – 2017

Outreach

• Become a Scientist for One Day
• CERN Master Classes for secondary school students
• Czech organizational board for International Young Physicists’ Tournament        2011 –
• Organizational board for Yale Physics Olympics, Yale University, USA                    2005 – 2007
• Editorial board of student popular science magazine Pictures of Yellow Roses”,  1993 – 1997
  Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic