Bruno Jungwiert

Bio

Bruno Jungwiert received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Space Techniques from the University of Paris VII / Paris Observatory, France (1998), and in Theoretical Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (1998). In 1999, he was awarded the Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences for young researchers. His main research interests are galaxy structure and evolution. He has been working in computational and observational astrophysics, focusing on galactic N-body simulations and 3D spectroscopy. He is a co-author of 63 scientific papers that acquired over 3000 citations.

As a researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 1999, he took two years of post-doctoral leave, from 2003 to 2005, at the Lyon Center for Astronomical Research, France, within the Marie Curie Research Training Network on 3D spectroscopy. In 2005, he became a fellow of the Computational Astrophysics Program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2006-2007, he took leave at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside.

Bruno has been a member of the Board of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2007, serving as its vice-chair during 2012-2016 and its chair from 2017. He has been extensively involved in teaching astronomy and astrophysics courses at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague (since 2001), the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of California, Riverside (2007), and at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (since 2009). He also acted as a supervisor of two dozen bachelor, master, and PhD theses.

Bruno has been teaching Stellar and Galactic Astronomy and Astronomy Laboratory at NC State Prague since 2015.