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 Financial Times and Google to the New Europe 100, a list of 100 Central Europeans with the greatest infl uence on our future.