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Astronomical Institute

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Pavel Kotrč

*1948
E-mail: pkotrc@asu.cas.cz
Solar Department

Research fields: Solar atmosphere, flares, surges, prominences, coronal loops, spectral observation and analysis, diagnostics of solar activity phenomena, solar corona, eclipses of the Sun, instrumentation. PI, Co-PI or Co-I on several solar physics projects. 1972 graduated from Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University in Brno (Mathematics and Physics). Since then working as a staff member at the Solar Department of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at Ondųejov. 1980 PhD in Astrophysics (Solar Physics). Several longer missions abroad: ISZF Irkutsk, Russia, Hvar Observatory, Croatia, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Ukraine, National Solar Observatory Sacramento Peak, USA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France. Member of solar eclipse expeditions to east Siberia (1981 and 1997), Romania & Hungary (1999) and Angola (2001 and 2002). Since 1992 external lecturer on spectroscopy at Charles University at Prague. In 2000 external lecturer on solar physics at Masaryk University in Brno, supervisor of student diploma theses. Member of the International Astronomical Union and alternative representative of the Czech Republic in JOSO. Author and co-author of about 95 papers.


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