Staff

Ing. Jaroslav Chum, Ph.D.

Department:  Department of Ionosphere and Aeronomy
Position: Deputy head of the Department
Position: Senior Research Scientist
E-mail:
Phone: +420 267 103 056
Room: G317
 

Education:

  • Dipl. Ing. in Technical Cybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Prague in 1989.
  • Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at Czech Technical University - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Physics, Prague in 2004.

Employment and academic experience:

  • Research Engineer at the Institute of Geophysics from 1991 to 1994
  • Research Engineer at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) from 1994 to 2000
  • Research Scientist at IAP from 2001 to 2013
  • Senior Research Scientist at IAP from 2013 to present.

Professional interest:

In the beginning of his carrier, J. Chum was involved in designing electronic subsystems for Czech satellites Magion-4 and Magion-5, digital sun sensor for several satellites and ground based measurements carried out at IAP, e.g., Continuous Doppler sounding of the ionosphere.

Since 2001, J. Chum has been involved in Space plasma physics investigations with a focus on wave propagation in the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. The scientific activity dominates in recent years. Initially, J. Chum investigated propagation and properties of whistler waves and chorus emissions in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Recently, he has mainly focused on propagation of internal gravity waves and infrasound in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere using the multi-point Continuous Doppler sounding, and on coupling of the ionosphere and upper atmosphere from below and from above. He is also interested in atmospheric electricity and cosmic rays.

Other info:

  • Member of the Board at the IAP, 2012-present
  • Member of the council for Science popularization at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Reviewer for JGR-Space physics, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., Advances in Space Res., Surveys in Geophysics, Geophysical Research Letters, Annales Geophysicae, Remote sensing, Radio Science, sensors, Earth and Space Science and for several Ph.D. and Master theses.
  • Associated editor of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

J. Chum is author or co-author of about 80 articles in international refereed journals.

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