Petr Marsalek, CV

Current position: associate professor (private docent)

at the Department of Pathological Physiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague.

Education: Degree, Year Conferred, Field of Study:

Medical Faculty, M.D., 1990, general medicine,

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, B.S., 1992, computer science,

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, M.S. and PhD. 1999, biophysics,

all degrees earned at the Charles University of Prague (further CU), Czech Republic.

Employment history (stays of at least one year)

1990-present: Department of Pathological Physiology, CU of Prague, successive positions as: graduate student,

postdoctoral fellow, assistant professor, associate professor with a prospect of a full professorship,

1992/93, 1998/99: PhD student, exchange scholarship, Department of Mathematics, CU of Prague,

1995-1997: postdoctoral fellow, Computation and Neural System (CNS) Program, Division of Biology,

California Institute of Technology, CA, USA,

2000-2001: postdoctoral fellow, Mind-Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA,

2005-present: visiting scholar, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,

2007-2008: deputy head of the Department of Medicine, Czech Technical University (CTU) of Prague.

Professional experience and skills

1990-present: lecturing on several subjects of medical physiology, medical biophysics and elementary calculus,

1990- present: working on various projects of a basic interdisciplinary research, see attached list of publications,

1990- present: acting as a PI in circa five basic research grants and as a co-investigator in circa another five,

2000- present: supervising circa ten successfully defended masters’ theses at various Prague Universities,

2005- present: supervising two PhD dissertations, both of them are now in a process of submission,

2001-2002: developing an information system (database of wholesale bank transactions), KB Inc., Prague,

2004-2005: coordinating development of a software system, ELTODO Prague, subsidiary of Siemens Inc.

2007-2008: supervising a department of ten people at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, CTU of Prague.

Ad hoc reviewer for journals and institutions

Selected journals: Biosystems, General Physiology and Biophysics, several IEEE journals; Neural Network

World, Science, and others;

Selected institutions: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic; Internal Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of

Sciences; R and D Support Agency of Slovakia; Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia; ETH Zurich, and others.

Language skills

English: fluent, German, Russian: between the B1 and B2 levels, Czech: native language.

Dresden, August 30, 2010 Petr Marsalek