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 SPIE Charles University Student Chapter since 2013 (See Activities)
- 2016–2017: Elected as an officer
OSA (The Optical Society)
- Member of 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
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.