• 1947 Born in Ash, Czech Republic
• 1962-66 Technical School of Electrotechnics, Chomutov
• 1966-71 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
• 1971 Till now at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague.
• 1971 Thesis on the electronic structure of small atomic particles, graduated in theoretical physics
• 1976 Degree of RNDr. (Rerum Naturalium Doctor), thesis on the analytic conditions for the existence of localized states in linear chains with an arbitrary number of impurities
• 1977 Degree of CSc. (equivalent to PhD), thesis on the theory of the electronic structure of atomic clusters
• 1978 Prize of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists
• 1982 Researcher
• 1984 Senior Researcher
• 1985 Head of the Quantum Chemistry Group, Department of Chemical Physics
• 1986 Assistent Professor, Department of Chemical Physics
• 1986 Bronze medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• 1990 Vice-chairman of Department of Chemical Physics
• 1991 Associate Professor of Chemical Physics
• 1991 Degree of DrSc, thesis on the size effects in quantum systems with finite dimensions
• 1994 Chairman of Department of Chemical Physics and Optics
• 1994 Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 1994 Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague
• 1996 Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• 1997 Professor of Theoretical Physics, Charles University
• 1997 Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 1998 Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
• 2002 Vice-chairman of Department of Chemical Physics and Optics
• 2002 Editor of Central European Journal of Physics
• 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific American (Czech Edition)
• 2006 Associate Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
• 2011 Best textbook of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in 2011
• 2012 Gold medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Memberships

• Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists
• American Physical Society
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FINSTP, UK)