Research positions
- Apr 2025 – present Czech Science Foundation Fellow Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Apr 2025 – present CCAPP Affiliate Fellow Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Oct 2024 – Mar 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Education
- Oct 2020 – Sep 2024 PhD in Astrophysics Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Thesis: Illuminating binary star evolution with observed populations and theoretical modeling · Advisor: Ondřej Pejcha
- Oct 2016 – Mar 2019 Master's in Theoretical Physics Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Thesis: Space-times of ring sources
- Oct 2013 – Jun 2016 Bachelor's in Physics Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Thesis: Space-times with toroidal horizons
Publications
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Agentic Active Learning Meets Visual Embeddings: Finding Anomalies among 370 000 Variable Stars from ASAS-SN
2026 · submitted to ApJ arXiv:2608.23688
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Distinguishing between light curves of ellipsoidal variables with massive dark companions, contact binaries, and semidetached binaries using principal component analysis
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Mass-ratio distribution of contact binary stars
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The complex dynamical past and future of double eclipsing binary CzeV343: Misaligned orbits and period resonance
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Consequences of parameterization choice on eclipsing binary light curve solutions
Funding & fellowships
- Apr 2025 – Mar 2028 Czech Science Foundation Postdoc Individual Fellowship ~260 000 EUR Host institutions: The Ohio State University and Charles University
- 2025 – 2027 MSCA COFUND SMASH Fellowship ~150 000 EUR · declined Host institution: University of Nova Gorica
- Apr 2024 Charles University Mobility Fund ~800 EUR Travel award supporting a research visit to the Australian National University
- Mar 2017 – Sep 2018 Charles University Grant Agency ~3 500 EUR · co-investigator Student research grant supporting a project on numerical studies of black-hole space-times
Research stays
- Apr 2024 (1 month) Australian National University Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Canberra, Australia Host: Yuan-Sen Ting
Talks
Invited
- Jun 2026 Agent ASAS-SN: Replicating Citizen Science Variable Star Classification with LLM Agents Zooniverse Seminar, online
- May 2026 Finding Anomalies among 370,000 ASAS-SN Variable Stars Using Visual Embeddings and Agent-Driven Active Learning Cosmology & ML Meeting, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, NY, USA
- Apr 2026 Agent ASAS-SN: License to Classify Chalk Talk, The SkAI Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Apr 2026 AI3: Agent-Driven Identification of Anomalies in ASAS-SN Research at Noon, The SkAI Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Oct 2024 Revealing Patterns in Close Binary Light Curves: From Darwin Instability to Dark Companions Astronomical Seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Apr 2024 Utilizing Low-Dimensional Representations in the Analysis of Close Binary Light Curves Astronomical Seminar, Australian National University, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia
Contributed
- Jun 2026 Anomaly Detection in ASAS-SN Using Visual Embeddings and Agent-Driven Active Learning AstroAI Workshop 2026, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Sep 2025 Toward the detection of massive dark companions in photometric surveys using GPR and PCA CCAPP Fellows Symposium 2025, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Sep 2024 Inferring the minimum mass ratio of contact binary stars with data from Kepler International Conference: Binary and Multiple Stars in the Era of Big Sky Surveys, Litomyšl, Czech Republic
- Mar 2024 Low-Mass Contact Binaries: Laboratories for Studying Mass Transfer, Tidal Instabilities, and Angular Momentum Loss Workshop on Stable Mass Transfer in Binaries: from onset to remnants, Center for Computational Astrophysics, NY, USA
- Jul 2023 Signature of the Darwin instability in the populations of contact binary stars from TESS and Gaia DR3 European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023, Krakow, Poland
- Nov 2022 Minimum mass ratio of contact binary stars The Impact of Binaries on Stellar Evolution Workshop, Garching, Germany
- Jun 2022 Mass-ratio distribution of contact binary stars European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2022, Valencia, Spain
Service
- Journal referee Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) · The Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJA)
Summer schools & training
- 2023 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers XVIII Center for Astrostatistics, The Pennsylvania State University
- 2021 NBIA Summer School on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Niels Bohr International Academy, The University of Copenhagen · Online
- 2020 Gaia & TESS: Tools for Understanding the Local Universe Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University · Online
- 2019 Machine Learning Coursera · Online
Skills & languages
- Programming Python, SQL, LaTeX
- Languages Slovak, English