~~Title: DW: About me ~~
====== RNDr. David Wagenknecht, PhD. ======

===== Topics of professional interest  =====
  * //Ab initio// calculations (calculations from the first principles)
  * Spintronics
  * Magnetism
  * Electrical transport properties including relativistic phenomena
  * Temperature behavior of bulk materials
  * Optical response
===== Memberships =====
=== SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) ===
  * Member of [[http://www.spie.cz|SPIE Charles University Student Chapter]] since 2013 (See [[activities|Activities]])
  * 2016–2017: Elected as an officer
=== OSA (The Optical Society) ===
  * Member of [[http://www.spie.cz|SPIE Charles University Student Chapter]], in 2017 also member board of OSA Student Chapter

=== Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists ===
  * Member of Czech Physical Society since 2008
  * [[http://www.jcmf.cz/|Official website]]

===== Scientific employment =====

=== Charles University, Prague ===
  * Department of Condensed Matter Physics
  * From 2014 to present

=== Czech Academy of Sciences ===
  * Institute of Physics of Materials
  * From 2015 to present

=== Technical University of Ostrava ===
  * IT4Innovations
  * 2018-2019

===== Educations =====
=== 2014–2019: Ph.D. study: Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials Research ===
  * Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
  * Topic of research: Theory of spin-dependent transport in magnetic solids, Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Ilja Turek, DrSc., consultant RNDr. Karel Carva, Ph.D.

=== 2012–2014: Master’s degree study: Optics and Optoelectronics ===
  * Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
  * Diploma thesis: Optical response of magnetic materials, Supervisor: docent Tomáš Ostatnický, Ph.D.

=== 2009–2012: Bachelor’s degree study: General Physics ===
  * Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
  * Bachelor’s thesis (2012): Light propagation in magnetic materials, Supervisor: docent Tomáš Ostatnický, Ph.D.
  * Student project (2011): Propagation of ultrashort optical pulses, Supervisor: docent Tomáš Ostatnický, Ph.D.