Jakub Řípa


Jakub Řípa

Jakub received his PhD in 2011 at Charles University (Prague, Czech Rep.) where he worked on the statistical studies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Then he became a postdoctoral researcher in the Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) and in the Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon, Korea) where he mainly worked on preparation of the UFFO-Pathfinder GRB instrument which was launched on the Lomonosov satellite. Then he moved to the National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) where he worked on testing the isotropy of the Universe using GRBs. There he also worked on the Taiwan Astroparticle Radiowave Observatory for Geo-synchrotron Emissions (TAROGE) for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and on the ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) which was a long-duration balloon experiment to detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos (UHEN). Next he moved back to the Czech Republic to the Charles University for a postdoctoral position.

He is now working at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University and in the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) where he continues his research on GRBs and works on the development of CubeSats capable of detection and localization of GRBs. These projects are HERMES, CAMELOT, GRBAlpha and the GRB instrument on board of the VZLUSAT-2. His fields of expertize are GRBs, instrumentation for their detection and statistical methods for data analysis.

EDUCATION:
 
 
5/2011 PhD in Astrophysics at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
since 2020  Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
2018-2021 Research Fellow in the Department of Atomic Physics, MTA-Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
 
2018-2020  Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
 
2015-2017 Distinguished Junior Fellow in the Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
2012-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
 
2011−2012 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for the Early Universe, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
 
2008−2011 Research Worker in the Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Publications

The peak-flux of GRB 221009A measured with GRBAlpha (adsabs).
J. Řípa, H. Takahashi, Y. Fukazawa, N. Werner, F. Munz, A. Pal, M. Ohno, M. Dafcikova, L. Meszaros, B. Csak, N. Husarikova, M. Kolar, G. Galgoczi, J-P. Breuer, F. Hroch, J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M. Frajt, M. Rezenov, R. Laszlo, M. Koleda, M. Smelko, P. Hanak, P. Lipovsky, T. Urbanec, M. Kasal, A. Povalac, Y. Uchida, H. Poon, H. Matake, K. Nakazawa, N. Uchida, T. Bozoki, G. Dalya, T. Enoto, Z. Frei, G. Friss, Y. Ichinohe, K. Kapas, L. L. Kiss, T. Mizuno, H. Odaka, J. Takatsy, M. Topinka, K. Torigoe, 2023, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 677, id.L2

GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory - Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations (adsabs).
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, Y. Ichinohe, K. Kapás, L. L. Kiss, H. Matake, H. Odaka, H. Poon, A. Povalač, J. Takátsy, K. Torigoe, N. Uchida, Y. Uchida, 2023, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 677, id.A40.

Simulations of expected signal and background of gamma-ray sources by large field-of-view detectors aboard CubeSats (adsabs).
Galgóczi, G., Řípa, J., Campana, R., Werner, N., Pál, A., Ohno, M., Mészáros, L., Mizuno, T., Tarcai, N., Torigoe, K., Uchida, N., Fukazawa, Y., Takahashi, H., Nakazawa, K., Hirade, N., Hirose, K., Hisadomi, S., Enoto, T., Odaka, H., Ichinohe, Y., Frei, Z., Kiss, L., 2021, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7, 028004.

Constraints on the ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrino flux from the fourth flight of ANITA (adsabs).
Gorham, P. W., Allison, P., Banerjee, O., Batten, L., Beatty, J. J., Belov, K., Besson, D. Z., Binns, W. R., Bugaev, V., Cao, P., Chen, C. H., Chen, P., Chen, Y., Clem, J. M., Connolly, A., Cremonesi, L., Dailey, B., Deaconu, C., Dowkontt, P. F., Fox, B. D., Gordon, J. W. H., Hast, C., Hill, B., Hsu, S. Y., Huang, J. J., Hughes, K., Hupe, R., Israel, M. H., Liewer, K. M., Liu, T. C., Ludwig, A. B., Macchiarulo, L., Matsuno, S., McBride, K., Miki, C., Mulrey, K., Nam, J., Naudet, C., Nichol, R. J., Novikov, A., Oberla, E., Prohira, S., Rauch, B. F., Ripa, J., Roberts, J. M., Romero-Wolf, A., Rotter, B., Russell, J. W., Saltzberg, D., Seckel, D., Schoorlemmer, H., Shiao, J., Stafford, S., Stockham, J., Stockham, M., Strutt, B., Sutherland, M. S., Varner, G. S., Vieregg, A. G., Wang, N., Wang, S. H., Wissel, S. A., Anita Collaboration, 2019, Physical Review D, 99, 122001.

UBAT of UFFO/Lomonosov: The X-Ray Space Telescope to Observe Early Photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (adsabs).
Jeong, S., Panasyuk, M. I., Reglero, V., Connell, P., Kim, M. B., Lee, J., Rodrigo, J. M., Ripa, J., Eyles, C., Lim, H., Gaikov, G., Jeong, H., Leonov, V., Chen, P., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Nam, J. W., Svertilov, S., Yashin, I., Garipov, G., Huang, M.-H. A., Huang, J.-J., Kim, J. E., Liu, T.-C., Petrov, V., Bogomolov, V., Budtz-Jørgensen, C., Brandt, S., & Park, I. H., 2018, Space Science Reviews, 214, 16.

Testing the Isotropic Universe Using the Gamma-Ray Burst Data of Fermi/GBM (adsabs).
Řípa, J., Shafieloo, A., 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 851, 15.


For a complete list of publications see here.