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New paper on vortex instabilities
The paper, written together with my Nottingham / KCL / São Paulo team is now available on arXiv. In the article, we develop a theoretical

I have a new job!
Last month, I took up the position of chargé de recherche at Institut Néel (CNRS) in Grenoble. My new colleagues are incredibly welcoming and already helped

Speaker at the European Researchers’ Night
I had such a great time last week! On Friday 26 September, I took part in the European Researchers’ Night in Bratislava, the Slovak capital.

Just out: Digital holography in superfluid helium
I’m excited to announce that our paper Digital holographic imaging of superfluid helium free surfaces is now live on arXiv. This was an incredibly enjoyable collaboration,

New paper in Applied Optics
I’m excited to share that our paper, titled Optical lever for broadband detection of fluid interface fluctuations, is now published in Applied Optics. A preprint

Photon Bricks landing page
The Photon Bricks project – a LEGO-based interferometer I am developing in Nottingham – now has a brand new home on the ARTlab Nottingham website!

QSimFP Community Workshop 2025
I was a part of the team who organised the 2025 Community Workshop for the Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics (QSimFP) consortium, which took place

Inaugural qmeets talk
I recently gave the inaugural talk for the qmeets series, titled Capturing Black Holes and the Early Universe in the Lab, together with Silke Weinfurtner. This event

Notts TV interview
Yesterday, I appeared at Notts Today, presenting the Photon Bricks project. What a cool experience!

LEGO & Lasers in Nature’s best science images
A stunning photo of an early prototype (maybe the first one properly working?) of my LEGO interferometer was selected by Nature photo team into February’s

arXiv alert
My latest paper, Black-hole spectroscopy from a giant quantum vortex, has just appeared on the arXiv preprint server! This work is the result of an

Article on Photon Bricks and more!
The University of Nottingham has published a press release highlighting not only the Photon Bricks project (a LEGO-based Michelson interferometer) but also my newly launched

Photon Bricks made it to London (twice)
The first intermediate outcome of my UKRI project for public engagement are Photon Bricks, which is a shortcut for a Michelson interferometer made entirely of

I published a new book
I am happy to announce that my latest book, Pohyb? Síly? Energie? (Motion? Forces? Energies?), has been published by MatfyzPress! This book is the result

New project for public engagement
I am thrilled to announce that our project, Engagement via classical and quantum light waves, was accepted for funding by UKRI. Starting in early September,

Our Nature paper caught media attention
Our paper Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex, which was published this month in Nature, attracted the attention of several media outlets

Nature paper on quantum tornados
This week, the scientific journal Nature published the article titled Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex, of which I am the lead

The Náboj Junior Collection
In the summer of 2023, I published the Náboj Junior Collection together with my friend Miška Dlugošová. The collection is available in both printed and