Petr Heinzel

Petr Heinzel received the CSc. and DSC. degrees from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1982 and 1993, respectively. In 2005, he was an Associate Professor of astronomy and astrophysics with Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. He was a Visiting Professor with the Paris University, Paris, France, the Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland, the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. He is currently the Director of the Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic. His research interests include solar physics, radiative transfer, plasma spectroscopy, and plasma astrophysics. Since 2003, Dr. Heinzel has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Solar Physics (Springer).