Filip Münz


Filip Münz

Filip has made his first steps in exploring the Universe from the domain of particle physics - the topic of his master and doctoral thesis was detection of gamma rays of very high energies on ground using Cherenkov light from air showers of secondary particles (the work on CELESTE experiment was based at College de France). Then he moved to lower energies to satellite experiments, esp. INTEGRAL (almost a year spent at ISDC, Versoix, Switzerland) and a legacy of HETE-2 (IASF INAF, Bologna).

Meanwhile in Astronomical institute at Ondrejov he participated at robotic telescope setups for rapid follow-up of GRB afterglows. Based on his more recent experience with fabrication and characterization of electronic nanostructure in CEITEC he aims to pursue the detection of transients with small satellite projects.

EDUCATION:
 
 
2003 PhD in Astroparticle physics at College de France, Paris; thesis "Electronic simulation for CELESTE: bias studies and application on observations of Crab Nebula", supervisor Ladislav Rob, MFF UK and Pierre Espigat, College de France
 
1997 MSc. degree (spec. Subnuclear Physics) at Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles university, Prague; thesis in High-Energy Astrophysics (Contribution to the calibration of CAT and CELESTE detectors)
 
 

POSITIONS and ACTIVITIES:
 
2019- member of High Energy Astrophysics group at Faculty of Science
 
2016- member of Core Facility Staff for CEITEC research program 1 (Nanomaterials)
 
2011- member of CEITEC research group Functional Properties of Nanostructures
 
2008- current job at Inst. of Cond. Matt. Physics, Fac. of Science, Masaryk University Brno
 
2007-2008 completion of a legacy catalogue of GRBs detected by HETE-2 satellite, assegno de ricerca position at Instituto di astrofisica spaziale e fisica cosmica (IASF/INAF), Bologna, Italy
 
2004-2006 automated scripts for analysis of X-ray spectra from XMM-Newton (intended for search of narrow-line features in X-ray emission of accretion discs of AGNs); extracted event-lists studied in detail using originally developped tools for time-resolved spectroscopy
 
2004 nine-month stay (with 2 month extension in early 2007) at INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Versoix, Switzerland
 
2003-2007 member of Czech INTEGRAL group at the Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov: data retrieval and analysis, search of variable sources (blazars, cataclysmic variables) incl. optical monitoring
 
1997-1999 collaboration with CAT and CELESTE experiments (French Pyrenees) on detection of cosmic gamma rays using Cerenkov atmospheric technique (College de France)

Selected Publications

Characterization of more than three years of in-orbit radiation damage of SiPMs on GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats,
J. Řípa, M. Dafčíková, P. Kosík, F. Münz, M. Ohno, G. Galgóczi, N. Werner, A. Pál, L. Mészáros, B. Csák, and collaborators, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 170513, 2025.

High-cadence observations of galactic nuclei by the future two-band UV-photometry mission QUVIK,
M. Zajaček, N. Werner, H. Best, J. E. L'Heureux, J. Řípa, M. Viskotová, M. Mondek, F. Münz, L. Štofanová, P. Kurfürst, M. Labaj, I. L. Garland, A. Tohuvavohu, V. Karas, and P. Suková, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 11, 042222, 2025.

Science with a Small Two-Band UV-Photometry Mission I: Mission Description and Follow-up Observations of Stellar Transients,
N. Werner, J. Řípa, C. Thöne, F. Münz, P. Kurfürst, M. Jelínek, F. Hroch, J. Benáček, M. Topinka, G. Lukes-Gerakopoulos, M. Zajaček, M. Labaj, and collaborators, Space Science Reviews, vol. 220, 2024.

GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations,
F. Münz, J. Řípa, A. Pál, M. Dafčíková, N. Werner, M. Ohno, L. Mészáros, V. Dániel, P. Hanák, J. Hudec, M. Frajt, J. Kapuš, P. Svoboda, J. Dudáš, M. Kasal, T. Vítek, M. Kolář, L. Szakszonová, P. Lipovský, M. Ďuríšková, I. Veřtát, M. Sabol, M. Junas, R. Maroš, P. Kosík, Z. Frei, H. Takahashi, Y. Fukazawa, G. Galgóczi, B. Csák, R. László, T. Mizuno, N. Husáriková, and K. Nakazawa, Proc. SPIE, 2024.

GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory - Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations,
A. Pál, M. Ohno, L. Mészáros, N. Werner, J. Řípa, B. Csák, M. Dafčíková, M. Frajt, Y. Fukazawa, P. Hanák, J. Hudec, N. Husáriková, J. Kapuš, M. Kasal, M. Kolář, M. Koleda, R. Laszlo, P. Lipovský, T. Mizuno, F. Münz, K. Nakazawa, M. Rezenov, M. Šmelko, H. Takahashi, M. Topinka, T. Urbanec, J-P. Breuer, T. Bozóki, G. Dálya, T. Enoto, Z. Frei, G. Friss, G. Galgóczi, F. Hroch, and collaborators, A&A, vol. 677, A40, 2023.


For a complete list of publications see here.