Research fields: Design and development of instruments and software for ground-based experiments, namely two robotic telescopes: BART (Ondřejov, Czech Republic) and BOOTES (Al Arenosilo, Spain) for follow-up observations of optical counterparts of gamma ray bursts. Software development for driving CCD cameras and telescopes, image data acquisition and processing. Software development of Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) and Jem-X experiments for INTEGRAL mission (C, C++, CERN's Root). 1982 graduated from the Technical University in Brno, since 1983 at Astronomical Institute. 1994 2-month mission to the University of California, Riverside. 1998 PhD from the Czech Technical University, Prague. Co-I of numerous space and ground-based grant projects such as the robotic telescope BART and experiment BOOTES. Since 1996 consortium member of the OMC experiment, INTEGRAL satellite project, ESA. Since 1997 long-term stay in Switzerland, member of software development team of INTEGRAL, Versoix.