Czech scientist. He works in space research and cooperates with NASA and the European Space Agency. Currently, as a member of the Department of Space Physics IAP ASCR, he is building a device for detecting electrical discharges on Mars for the ExoMars 2020 mission. For his research he has won the prestigious British Interplanetary Society Award and was selected by  e Financial Times and Google to the New Europe 100, a list of 100 Central Europeans with the greatest infl uence on our future.