Curriculum Vitae

Jana Pittichova

NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute for Astronomy, UH
2680 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI 96822-1839
(808) 956-7211
jana@ifa.hawaii.edu

Born on April 9, 1972 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovak Republic.

Education

• High School, 6/90, Bratislava
  
• M.S., 6/95, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  
• Ph.D., 2/99, Institute of Astronomy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  

Positions

• 7/95 - 7/98: Ph.D. studentship at the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  
• 10/97 - 9/98: PhD studentship at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Munich, Germany
  
• 1/99 - 9/99: Research astronomer at the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  
• 10/99 - 9/00: NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.
  
• 10/00 - 7/06: Junior Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.
  
• 8/06 - now: Comet Nuclei Postdoctoral Specialist at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.
  

Foreign Languages

• English -- very good
  
• Russian -- good
  
• German -- little
  
• Czech -- very good
  
• Polish -- very good
  
• Slovak -- native language
  

Scientific interests

• 1974
  
• Image processing and modeling of cometary dust tail (striae)
  
• Morphological features in the dust coma (such as jets, spirals, fans, streamers, etc.)
  
• Combination of optical, infrared and spectroscopy data will to receive information on the gas/dust production rates
  
• Astrometry and photometry measurement of the CCD comet images
  
• Observation of the Kuiper belt objects, Centaurs, short period and long period comets - Observatory Modra, Slovak Republik
  
• Biostronomy -- star and planet formation, interstellar dust and habitable enviroments/atmosphere
  
• Outreach program - introducing astronomy to schools and the public
  
• Total Solar Eclipse - August 1999, Kiskunmajsa near Szeged, Hungary

Research Accomplishments

• IAU Symposium 161, Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging, Podsdam, Germany, August 23-27, 1993
  
• International astronomical conference, Meteoroids, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, August 28-31, 1994
  
• Cospar Colloquium 10, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 96, Versailles, France, July 8-12, 1996
  
• First International Conference on Comet Hale-Bopp, Tenerife, Canary Island, February 2-7, 1998
  
• IAU Colloquium 173, Evolution and Source Regions of Asteroids and Comets, Stara Lesna, Slovak Republic, August 23-29, 1998
  
• 17th Annual Pacific Education Conference, Koror, Republic of Palau, July 25-27, 2000
  
• The 32nd Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, California, October 23-27, 2000
  
• The 33rd Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 27-December 1, 2001
  
• IAU Symposium 211 , Brawn Dwarfs, Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Hotel, Big Island of Hawaii, May 20-24, 2002
  
• IAU Symposium 213, Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, July 8-12, 2002
  
• CAMMAC-2002, Comets Asteroids Meteors Meteorites Astroblemes Craters, Vinnytsia, Ukraine, September 23-29, 2002
  
• The 34th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Birmingham, Alabama, October 6-11, 2002
  
• The 35th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Monterey, California, September 1-6, 2003
  
• 8th International Conference of Bioastronomy, Bioastronomy 2004: Habitable Worlds, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 11-16, 2004
  
• The 36th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Luisville, Kentucky, November 8-12, 2004
  
• The 205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San Diego, California, January 9-13, 2005
  
• The NAI 2005 Biennial Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Boulder, Colorado, April 10-14, 2005
  
• The IAU Symposium 229, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 7-12, 2005
  
• The Protostars and Planets V, Waikoloa, Kona, Hawaii, October 24-28, 2005
  
• The Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event - Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength, Brussels, Belgium, August 7-10, 2006
  
• The IAU XXVIth General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-24, 2006
  
• The 210th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 21-31, 2007
  
• 9th International Conference of Bioastronomy, Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 16-20, 2007
  

Memberships

• Member of the International Astronomical Union, Commission 15
  
• Member of the European Astronomical Society
  
• Member of the American Astronomical Society
  
• Member of the Division for Planetary Sciences
  
• Member of the LOC on the IAU Colloquium 173
  
• Member of the LOC on the IAU Symposium 211
  
• Member of the LOC on the Protostars and Planets V
  
• Member of the LOC on the 9th International Conference of Bioastronomy
  

Other Interests

• International Water Life Saver
  
• Member of the 24 Hour Fitness
  
• Swimming, Triathlon - Ironman, snorkeling, scuba diving, Hawaii, Kona, boogie boarding, sky-diving,
  windsurfing, skiing, fitness, fitness team hiking, travelling, transportation,
  cooking, convertible cars, sailing
  
• Halloween, Medieval dinner
  

Last Modified: Februar 27, 2008