Curriculum vitae


My name is Marek Basny. I was born on the 27th of March 1971 in Prostejov. In 1989 I entered the Faculty of Science of the Palacky University in Olomouc. Here I took a five-year course in mathematics and physics for future teachers. In the third year of my undergraduate studies I decided to specialize in astronomy and astrophysics. I wrote my Master's thesis "Development of the theories of creation and evolution of space" and in June 1994 I took a MSc. degree.
In the same year I passed an entrance examination to postgraduate studies and I continued my studies of astronomy and astrophysics at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University . I focused my scientific work primarily on the mass transfer in close binary systems. I solved this problem by means of computer simulation. During my studies I attended several conferences (19th and 20th Conference on Stellar Astronomy of Czech and Slovak Professional Astronomers, International Conference on Variable Star Research), where I presented the results of my work ("A modeling mass transfer in close binary stars"). I also delivered a few lectures on my research at a regular weekly seminar at Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. In the last year of my studies I performed photometry of binary stars (RV Tri and BL And) at the department observatory. My educational activities at university consisted of leading educational seminars on mathematics, astronomical observations and physics of stars.
In 1998 I changed from internal study to part time study and began work at company AURA like tester of software. Following year I becomed member of implementation team and from 2000 I worked as manager of testing. In 2001 I finished postgraduate studies of theoretical physics and took Ph.D. degree.