Tomáš Plšek


Tomáš Plšek
 
 
Email  plsek@physics.muni.cz
 
Website  physics.muni.cz/~plsek
 
ORCID  0000-0001-6411-3651
 
Google Scholar  Tomáš Plšek
 
Office address  Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Kotlářská 2, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
 
EDUCATION:
 
 
since 9/2021 PhD in Astrophysics: Studying the physics of hot galactic atmospheres” at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Advisor: prof. Mgr. Norbert Werner, PhD.
 
2019-2021 MSc in Astrophysics: “The relation between the Bondi accretion rate and jet power in giant elliptical galaxies” at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Advisor: prof. Mgr. Norbert Werner, PhD.
 
2016-2019 BSc in Astrophysics: “Dark matter modelling of galaxy clusters” at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Advisor: Mgr. Filip Hroch, PhD.
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
since 3/2021  Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
2019-2020  Researcher in the Department of Physical Electronics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
2017-2018  Demonstrator at Vyškov Observatory

Tomáš is a PhD student studying hot atmospheres of elliptical galaxies and their radio-mechanical AGN feedback. As a part of his Master thesis, he studied the connection between supermassive black holes in centres of early-type galaxies and radio lobes or surface brightness depressions (X-ray cavities) inflated into their atmospheres.

He examines also the applications of machine learning techniques in Astrophysics. During his Master studies he produced a machine learning pipeline (CADET) consisting of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a clustering algorithm, which was trained for finding X-ray cavities on Chandra images of galaxies.

He is also interested in SPH simulations of clusters of galaxies. For his Bachelor thesis, he produced a hydrodynamical simulation of a Virgo like cluster using the parallelised cosmological code GADGET-2.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications see here.

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High Energy Astrophysics Group
Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Kotlářská 2, 602 00, Brno
Czech Republic