New associate professor at Department of Physics

Doc. RNDr. Jan Šlégr, Ph.D. completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Science, UHK, in the didactics of physics and his habilitation thesis deals with selected aspects of astrophysics education.

He obtained his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Education, UHK in teaching physics and informatics at higher secondary schools and at the Faculty of Science, UHK, in the field of measurement and modelling of physical properties. In 2013, he defended his PhD thesis on the experimental support of astrophysics education in the theory of education in physics. Since 2013, he has been teaching at the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science, initially as a lecturer and now as an associate professor.

His principal areas of research include the didactics of physics and physical experiments in education, and the measurement of physical characteristics and the development of comprehensive sensoring systems. As a researcher, he participates in many projects organised or funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, particularly in Gamma and Epsilon programs. For example, in the Smart Vet project, he develops systems for the monitoring of vital functions of animal patients at veterinary clinics.

He is also a researcher for the PERSONMED project - Centre for the Development of Personalized Medicine in Age-Related Diseases. With his typical sense of humour, he describes his engagement in the projects as “activities with unspecified inputs, methods and solutions having an impact on other activities.”

He is a member of several professional organisations, such as the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists or the Central Committee for the Physics Olympics, where he partakes in the education of talented young scientists. He is an active science populariser and regularly attends events such as Head Games (organised by the Faculty of Science, UHK) or lectures at the Night of Scientists.

In his free time, he enjoys doing extreme sports, including – as he explains with a smile – the teaching of physics at a secondary school. He also keeps a list of physics mistakes in movies.