Researcher
Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic
2007 – 6/2010:SORT – Solar Robotic Telescope – hardware and software design and development of robotic telescope for observation of Sun active areas in Ha and Ca II wavelengths. This is a server-client multithreaded application which controls Software Bisque Paramount ME robotic mount, a telescope equipped with three SBIG CCD cameras (Ha & Ca, guider), two FLI PDF focusers and AstroHaven robotic dome. Written in Java including C and C++. Project is realized at Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic.2007 – 12/2009 :Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic. Member of ESA Gaia CU7 software development team at Astronomical Institute. An external collaboration with CU7 team in Geneva, Switzerland. 1995 – 1997:Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic.Design and development of the first Ondrejov Robotic Telescope. Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts Optical Counterparts with small Robotic Telescopes. Installation of the first version named BOOTES at INTA, Malaga, Spain. 1989 – 1994:Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic. OTM - Optical Transient Monitor and Image Data Processing, Development of Very Wide--Field CCD Cameras. Cooperation with University of California, Riverside and Santa Barbara Instrument Group, CA.1984 – 1988: Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic. Participation on several cosmic space missions, namely Phobos1, Phobos2 and Interbool, development testing software for X—ray detectors, cooperation with IKI - Space Institute, Moscow.