Engineering & Technical Support

The main task of the technical team is to provide full technical support to the HiLASE Centre scientific team, starting with visualizations, through the construction of mechanical and opto-mechanical parts and equipment, through control systems to ensuring the running of workshops, laboratories, buildings and related technologies.

Jakub Horáček

Jakub Horáček holds an engineering degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TUL, specializing in automatic control systems. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD at the Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics, and Interdisciplinary Studies at TUL. He possesses experience in various laser laboratories and their associated control systems. For instance, he collaborated with the LLNL HAPLS team in the development of diagnostic software. Since 2013, Jakub has been employed at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He joined the HILASE Centre team in 2017 in the capacity of a control systems engineer and has been serving as the head of the Engineering & Technical Support department since 2023.