Dr. Jan Vanda

Jan VANDA was born in Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. from VSB-TU Ostrava in 2009 at the department of telecommunications in the field of optoelectronics. After experience in industry, where he worked as quality manager, he joined for one year FORTH-IESL as a post-doc in the Marie-Curie program. Post-doc programme was followed several months position in the area of developing printed Fresnel lenses and one-year experience in Czech Office of Standards Metrology and Testing as national secretary in IEC/CENELEC. Since 2011, he is working at the HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics of CAS, currently at the position of the senior researcher and the head of LIDT laboratory. His research interests include fiber optics and optical mircostructures, laser processing and laser induced damage threshold.