Resume

Education

since 2009

studying PhD in Chemical Physics at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA

2006-2008

Master degree in Theoretical Physics at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic

2003-2006

Bachelor degree in Physics at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic

1995-2003

High School of Christian Doppler, Czech Republic

Internships, academic stays

2010

Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Summer Institute at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA

2009

summer internship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

2006

summer internship at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2005

summer internship at Portland State University, Oregon, USA

1999-2002

scientific assistant at Center for Machine Perception (CMP), Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University

Conferences, summer schools and other meetings

2009

• SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, USA
• Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science (FEMTEC 2009), Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
• SciPy 2009 Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA

2008

• 5th International Workshop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PMAA'08), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Google Mentor Summit, Mountain View, CA, USA
• SAGE Days 8, Austin, Texas, USA
• EuroSciPy 2008 Conference, Leipzig, Germany
• International Summer School on Physics at Nanoscale, Devet Skal, the Czech Republic

2007

• 8th Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software (ACTS) Collection Workshop, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• SciPy 2007 Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
• Workshop and Advanced School on Eigenvalue Problems, Software and Applications (EPSA2007), Porto, Portugal
• SAGE Days 6, Bristol, UK
• Debian QA and release teams work session, Merida, Spain

2006

• Comsol Users Conference 2006, Prague, the Czech Republic

2005

• Launch Conference of the International Year of physics, UNESCO, Paris, France
• Summer School of Physics, Tri Studne, the Czech Republic

2004

• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Oregon, USA
• international conference 25 years of High School Special Activity, Brno, the Czech Republic
• international conference Pedagogical Software, Ceske Budejovice, the Czech Republic

2003

• International Conference of Young Scientists, Kladno, the Czech Republic

2002

• Summer School of Physics, Tri Studne, the Czech Republic
• International Conference of Young Scientists, Kutaisi, Georgia
• international conference Pedagogical Software, Ceske Budejovice, the Czech Republic

2001

• International Conference of Young Scientists, Katowice, Poland

Awards

2010

• Excellence in Scholarship Award, by the Math/Stat Department, University of Nevada, Reno

2004

• 4th award at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, OR, USA
• Honorary sheet from the Minister of Education for the representation of the Czech Republic

2003

• award presented by the Czech Learned Society
• honorary sheet from the Minister of Education for the representation of the Czech Republic
• honorary sheet from the Council of the City of Prague for achieved successes in Mathematics Olympiad
• 3th prize in the International Young Physicists' Tournament, Uppsala, Sweden, 1st place in the Czech Republic
• 3rd prize in the Austrian Young Physicists' Tournament, Vienna, Austria

2002

• honorary sheet from the Minister of Education for the representation of the Czech Republic
• honorary sheet from the Council of the City of Prague for achieved successes in Mathematics Olympiad
• 3rd prize in physics at International Conference of Young Scientists, Kutaisi, Georgia
• 3rd prize in the International Young Physicists' Tournament, Odessa, Ukraine, 1st place in the Czech Republic

2001

• honorary sheet from the Council of the City of Prague for achieved successes in Mathematics Olympiad

Other accomplishments in mathematics and physics

2004

• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, 4th award, Portland, Oregon, USA

2003

• High School Special Activity in Physics, 1st place in the Czech Republic, nominated to International Science and Engineering Fair in Oregon, USA, in May 2004
• captain of the Czech representation team in International Young Physicists' Tournament, 1st place in the Czech Republic, 3rd prize in Uppsala, Sweden
• representing the Czech Republic in First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics, Poland, won Honorable mention in category Research Papers
• 2nd-3rd place in Prague round of Mathematics Olympiad (8th-10th in the Czech Republic)
• Czech national round in Physics Olympiad
• Czech national round in Mathematics Olympiad
• 3rd-4th place in Prague round of Physics Olympiad

2002

• 1st place at international mathematical competition Bratislavsky naboj, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 8th-9th place in the Czech national round of Mathematics Olympiad
• 3rd place in Prague round of Mathematics Olympiad
• 4th place in Prague round of High School Special Activity in Physics

2001

• Czech national round of Mathematics Olympiad
• 2nd place in Prague round of Mathematics Olympiad
• 4th place in Prague round of High School Special Activity, in Physics

Sports

2003-2008

cross-country skiing for the University Sporting Club of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University

1998-2002

rowing for the Czech Rowing Club Prague.

1992-2005

chess for the club Dum armady Praha.

Languages

English - fluent

• living in Reno, Nevada, USA since Dec. 2008
• university internship, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2 months, 2006)
• university internship, Portland, Oregon, USA (2 months, 2005)
• shop assistant, Dublin, Ireland (2 months, 2004)
• summer course, Great Britain (1 month, 2001)

Czech - native

German - very little

Publications in impacted journals

1. A. Fejfar, T. Mates, O. Certik, B. Rezek, J. Stuchlik, I. Pelant, J. Kocka: Model of electronic transport in microcrystalline silicon and its use for prediction of device performance, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 338-340 (2004) 303
2. K. Vyborny, O. Certik, D. Pfannkuche, D. Wodzinski, A. Wojs, and J.J. Quinn: Ising ferromagnetism of composite fermions, Acta Phys. Pol. A, 110, 409 (2006)
3. A. F. Dethlefsen, R. J. Haug, K. Vyborny, O. Certik and A. Wojs: Transport gap in a nu=1/3 quantum Hall system: A probe for skyrmions, Phys. Rev. B 74, 195324 (2006)
4. K. Vyborny, O. Certik, D. Pfannkuche, D. Wodzinski, A. Wojs and J. J. Quinn: Integral and fractional quantum Hall Ising ferromagnets, Phys. Rev. B 75, 045434 (2007)
5. Ondrej Certik, Jiri Vackar, Jiri Plesek: Density functional theory calculations using the finite element method, Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2008, 57, 3, 155-178, doi: 10.3176/proc.2008.3.06
6. A. Fejfar, A. Vetushka, V. Kalusova, O. Certik, M. Ledinsky, B. Rezek, J. Stuchlik, J. Kocka: Relation of nanoscale and macroscopic properties of mixed-phase silicon thin films, Phys. Status Solidi A, 1-5 (2010) doi:10.1002/pssa.200982907

Other publications

1. O. Certik, A. Havranek: Elastic pendulum, Mathematics - Physics - Informatics Journal, Vol. 12, 2002/2003, No. 10, pages 607-611 (2003)
2. P. Moeck, O. Certik, B. Seipel, R. Grobner, L. Noice, G. Upreti, P. Fraundorf, R. Erni, N. D. Browning, A. Kiesow, J. P. Jolivet, Identifying unknown nanocrystals by fringe fingerprinting in two dimensions and free-access crystallographic databases, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6000, pp. 206-217 (2005), DOI: 10.1117/12.629818
3. A. Havranek, O. Certik: Elastic pendulum, Advances in Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Vol. 51, p. 198 (2006)
4. P. Moeck, B. Seipel, G. Upreti, R. Bjorge, L. Noice, O. Certik, E. Mandell, and P. Fraundorf, Crystallographic nanometrology in two and three dimensions with on-line database support, Proc. Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference, Vancouver, Washington, July 24-26, p. 44 (2006)
5. P. Moeck, O. Certik, G. Upreti, B. Seipel, M. Harvey, W. Garrick, and P. Fraundorf: Crystal structure visualizations in three dimensions with support from the open access Nano- Crystallography Database, J. Mater. Educ. 28(1), 87 (2006)
6. P. Solin, O. Certik, S. Regmi: The FEMhub Project and Classroom Teaching of Numerical Methods, Proc. of the 8th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2009), Pasadena, Aug. 2009 (http://hpfem.org/publications/papers/2009/scipy09_paper-39.pdf).