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 |
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. |
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.
For a complete list of publications see here.
High Energy Astrophysics Group
Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
Kotlářská 2, 602 00, Brno
Czech Republic