Jana Brotánková

Jana Brotánková
CitizenshipCzech Republic
Alma materCharles University
Known forFusion plasma, Project leader of COMPASS tokamak , Ball-pen probe
Scientific career
FieldsFusion plasma
InstitutionsCzech Technical University in Prague
Thesis Study of high temperature plasma in tokamak-like experimental devices  (2009)
Websitehttps://www.cvut.cz/en/women-in-science/jana-brotankova

Jana Brotánková (born in the 1980s) is a Czech physicist specialising in thermonuclear fusion. She is based at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. She has worked on plasma physics, thermonuclear fusion, fusion (tokamak, stellarator), reversed field pinch and artificial intelligence.

She is the president of the Czech Physical Society.[1][2]

Education

Brotánková graduated from a high school in Česká Lípa in 1997. In 2003, she graduated from physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University, Prague. In 2009, she obtained PhD and RNDr in Plasma Physics at Charles University.[3]

Career

From 1998 to 2010, she worked at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (tokamak department).[4] In 2010–2012, she held a fellowship in India (at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhi Nagar.[5][6] In 2013–2015, she worked with fusion education efforts and research abroad, and then returned to Czech Technical UniversityCTU to help establish the "PlasmaLab@CTU" lab.[2]

Her expertise includes: plasma diagnostics (Thomson scattering, probe diagnostics),[7] plasma turbulence, magnetic topology, fusion devices (tokamak, reversed field pinch), and education in fusion physics.[7] She has published in areas spanning fusion physics[7] and also in conservation biology[8] and artificial intelligence.[9]

References

  1. ^ Výbor ČFS na období 2024 – 2026 (in Czech), Česká fyzikální společnost, retrieved 2025-11-03
  2. ^ a b "Jana Brotánková (CZE)". meltingpotforum.com. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  3. ^ "RNDr. Jana Brotánková, Ph.D". Czech Technical University in Prague. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  4. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  5. ^ Sangwan, Deepak; Jha, Ratneshwar; Brotánková, Jana; Gopalkrishna, M. V. (June 2013). "Modification of plasma flows with gas puff in the scrape-off layer of ADITYA tokamak". Physics of Plasmas. 20 (6): 062503. doi:10.1063/1.4811476. ISSN 1070-664X.
  6. ^ Sangwan, Deepak; Jha, Ratneshwar; Brotánková, Jana; Gopalkrishna, M. V. (2012-09-01). "Plasma flows in scrape-off layer of Aditya tokamak". Physics of Plasmas. 19 (9). doi:10.1063/1.4752415. ISSN 1070-664X.
  7. ^ a b c Brotánková, Jana; Svorc, Daniel; Fernandes, Horacio; Farnik, Michal; Mlynar, Jan; Hecko, Jan; Mazur, Daniel; Pfeifer, Miroslav (January 2024). "Resonance cavity as an education tool in PlasmaLab@CTU". Fusion Engineering and Design. 198 (114060). doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.114060. ISSN 0920-3796.
  8. ^ "Publications by: Jana Brotánková Also publishes as (Jana Brotankova, J. Brotankova)". researchonline.jcu.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  9. ^ Brotánková, Jana; Urli, Tommaso; Kilby, Philip (2016-07-20). "Planning Habitat Restoration with Genetic Algorithms". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016. GECCO '16. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 861–868. doi:10.1145/2908812.2908957. ISBN 978-1-4503-4206-3.