Associate Professors
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Drozd, Ph.D.
Guarantor of Master's and Doctoral Programmes
ORCID 0000-0003-4405-9947
Professional and research focus:
research in the field of mechanical and physical properties of magnesium based materials (alloys, composites and nanocomposites)
Teaching: condensed matter physics, molecular physics, practical courses in school experiments
doc. RNDr. Leoš Dvořák, CSc.
ORCID 0000-0002-8942-885X
Professional and research focus:
creation of study materials; low-cost experiments in physics teaching and learning and how they can be combined with theory; projects and activities that can improve both pre-service and in-service physics teacher training
Teaching: mechanics, theoretical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, special relativity, physics worldview (part concerning gravitation), optional seminars concerning simple experiments and tools for physics teaching and learning
Supervised theses
doc. PhDr. Martin Chvál, Ph.D.
ORCID 0000-0001-8027-8907
Professional and research focus:
research in the areas of self-evaluation and external evaluation of schools; evaluation of pupils; creation and evaluation of the results of didactic tests; methodology and statistics (within pedagogy, psychology, healthcare)
Teaching: pedagogy, methodology in pedagogical, didactic and psychological research
Supervised theses
doc. RNDr. Petr Kácovský, Ph.D.
Vice-Head of Department
ORCID 0000-0003-0675-6098
Professional and research focus:
research in the area of experiments in physics teaching (both lecture demonstrations and practical work); students´ intrinsic motivation towards experimental activities in physics; cognitive demands of curriculum documents
Teaching: thermodynamics and statistical physics, practical courses in school experiments, propedeutics of physics teaching
Supervised theses
doc. RNDr. Mgr. Vojtěch Žák, Ph.D.
Head of Department, Guarantor of Bachelor's Programme
ORCID 0000-0003-3337-5784
Professional and research focus:
research on physics curriculum; research on quality of physics teaching; creating a physics textbook
Teaching: didactics of physics, mathematical methods in physics, classical electrodynamics, physics worldview
Supervised theses
