Outreach

I like talking about science from a generalist point of view. I think it brings something to the people who listen but also forces me to take on fresh perspectives.

For a period of time I contributed regularly to Physics Stack Exchange (see my profile).

Public talks

I occasionally give popular-science talks at high schools and other public venues, mostly in Czech. A recorded talk is available on YouTube:

• Černé díry, gravitační vlny a vesmírná mise LISA (Czech) — Recorded talk at the Open Day of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 27 November 2025.

Articles for Respekt

I semi-regularly write popular science articles for the Czech magazine Respekt:

• Velké oko v kosmu (The big eye in space), 3.5. 2015 — A retrospective for the 25 years of the Hubble space telescope
• Čekání na velký třesk (Waiting for the big bang), 31.5. 2015 — Article summarising the expectations from the second run of LHC
• Když v kosmu hřmí (When the cosmic thunder claps), 13.2. 2016 — About the announced first measurement of gravitational waves
• Na lovu černé tečky (Hunting for the black spot), 20.5. 2017 — About the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration and its prospects
• Jak vzniká zlato. Vědci zaznamenali srážku dvou neutronových hvězd (Where does gold come from. Scientists have observed a neutron star collision), 16.10. 2017 — On the first announced measurement and observations of the binary neutron star merger
• Jak mě Stephen Hawking přivedl k vědě (How Stephen Hawking brought me to science), 14.3. 2018 — A personal story about the impact of Hawking’s A Brief History of Time on my life
• Na vlnách podivna (On stranger waves), 15.4. 2019 — About the announced EHT observations of M87 and their implications
• Na dřeň přírodních zákonů (To the hard core of nature), 10.11. 2019 — On quantum computing and the implications of the quantum supremacy claim by Google
• Tygr jménem magnetar (The cosmic tiger, magnetar), 15.11. 2020 — On the first association of a fast radio burst with a galactic source
• UFO poblíž Chicaga (The UFO near Chicago), 23.5. 2021 — Article about the muon magnetic moment anomaly (g-2) announced by Fermilab and its implications
• Stín něžného obra (The shadow of the gentle giant), 15.5. 2022 — About the first “photo” of the supermassive black hole in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy

Other writing

• Nobelova cena za rok 2020: V centru naší galaxie je cosi temného a těžkého (Nobel Prize 2020: Something dark and heavy lurks in the centre of our galaxy), Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie 66/4 (2021) — On the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
• Od rtuťového podkladu k černým dírám (From a mercury base to black holes), Universum 3/2019, p. 24 — On the history of relativity from the Michelson & Morley experiment to modern observations
• Series of texts about String Theory (2013/14) — Written in Czech with Miroslav Rapčák for the high-school physics correspondence seminar of Charles University
• Series of texts about dynamical systems and Chaos theory (2014/15) — Written in Czech for the high-school physics correspondence seminar of Charles University

Book translations

• Znovuzrozený čas — Czech translation of Time Reborn by Lee Smolin (Argo/Dokořán, September 2015)
• Černé díry — Czech translation of Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Vyšehrad/Albatros, April 2024)