Johannes Horak

Personal Details

Date of birth 07.08.1984Place of birth Steyr, AustriaNationality AustriaAddress Kranebitterbodenweg 23/20

6020 InnsbruckAustria

Phone +43 660 / 57 56 553Mail johannes.horak@uibk.ac.at

Education

03/2016 - current PhD-Doctoral programme Atmospheric Sciences, Area of disserta-tion: Meteorology and GeophysicsSupervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Mathias Rotach.

03/2006 - 03/2013 Diploma programme: Physics, University of ViennaDiploma thesis title: Design and Characterisation of a LIAD Sourcein View Of Matter Wave InterferometrySupervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Markus Arndt.

The thesis characterizes a self-designed molecular beam sourcebased on the soft laser desorption mechanism LIAD. It explores itsusability for experiments in matter wave interferometry and inves-tigates the driving mechanism. To this end numeric computationsof the laser-matter interaction and the resulting thermal processeswhere performed.

10/2004 - 02/2005 Diploma programme: Philosophy, University of Salzburg

10/2003 - 09/2004 Civil service, AKH Linz

09/1998 - 06/2003 School leaving exam at technical college for software engineering andbusiness, HTBLA Leonding

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Publications and Scientific Work

First AuthorHorak J., Schmerold I., Wimmer K., Schauberger G.Cabin air temperature of parked vehicles in summer conditions: life-threatening environment forchildren and pets calculated by a dynamic model.Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2016): 1-12.

Horak J., Heunoske D., Lueck M., Osterholz J., Wickert M. (2015)Numerical Modelling and Characterization of the Laser-Matter Interaction During High-PowerCW Laser Perforation of Thin Metal PlatesJournal of Laser Applications 27S2, S28003.

Diploma ThesisHorak J. (2013)Design and Characterisation of a LIAD Source in View Of Matter Wave Interferometry

Co-AuthorSezer U., Worner L., Horak J., Felix L., Tuxen J., Gotz C., Vaziri A., Mayor M., Arndt M.(2015)Laser-Induced Acoustic Desorption of Natural and Functionalized BiochromophoresAnalytical Chemistry 87(11): 5614-5619.

Haberleitner A., Schauberger G., Horak J., Schmerold I. (2014)Thermal Drug Storage Conditions in Veterinary Vehicles - A One-Year Field Study in AustriaWiener Tierarztliche Monatsschrift - Veterinary Medicine Austria 5-6, OGT, pp. 110-119.

Conference Presentations

1. Numerical Modelling and Characterization of the Laser-Matter Interaction During High-Power CW Laser Perforation of Thin Metal PlatesICALEO 2014, San Diego, USA. Session: LMP 18 - Modelling and Simulation20 minute presentation and paper in proceedings

Research Stays / Courses

4/2016 - 05/2016 NCAR, Boulder, USAAn introduction to the intermediate complexity atmospheric researchmodel (ICAR).

06/2014 Thermography in R&D and automation (three days)

02/2014 Basics of FEM modelling (two days)

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Teaching Experience

10/2011 - 01/2012 Tutor for mathematics exercisesUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

03/2010 - 07/2010 Tutor for introductory physics lab exercisesUniversity of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

03/2009 - 07/2009 Tutor for introductory physics lab exercisesUniversity of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

Work Experience

12/2015 - current Research assistant, University of InnsbruckDownscaling of atmospheric variables in complex topography witha focus on target quantities relevant for process-based distributedglacier mass-balance models.

09/2013 - 08/2015 Research assistant, Fraunhofer EMI, Freiburg (Germany)Group: Laser technology. Numerical and experimental studies of theinteraction between high-power continuous-wave laser radiation andmetal plates.

10/2010 - 06/2012 Creation of LATEX versions of lecture notes and presentations forProf. Dr. Helmuth Huffel, University of Vienna

04/2008 - 06/2010 Project staff member, University of Veterinary Medicine,ViennaDepartment: Medical physics. Development of a balance equationbased numerical model for the temporal evolution of a vehicle’s cabintemperature. Input parameters are its geometry, optical/thermalproperties and meteorological data during the time interval to besimulated for.

05/2007 - 06/2007 Project staff member, University of ViennaGroup: Quantum nanophysics and molecular quantum optics. Set-ting up of Young’s double slit experiment with single photons.

07/2005 - 07/2006 Software engineer, MIC Customs Solutions, LinzAdaption and development of Oracle Forms based customs softwarefor corporations.

03/2005 - 06/2005 Mobile patrol, Securitas, Linz

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Internships and Vacation Placements

07/2007 Software engineer, MIC Customs Solutions

09/2003 Clerk at post office Linz Ebelsberg

07/2002 Parcel deliverer for the Austrian postal service, Linz

07/2001 Intern at VOEST TMS, EDP administration, Linz

07/2000 Intern at VOEST MCE, Linz

Science Communication

Author and owner of the scienceblog www.timaios.org.

Selected published articles:

• Nebensonnen und wie sie entstehen

• Schrodingers Katze

• Die Sonnenfinsternis am 20.3.2015 (multi-part)

• Wie funktioniert eine Infrarotkamera? (multi-part)

At the time of writing unique views per post range between 100 and 1000 (Source: GoogleAnalytics).

Languages

German (first language)English (C2), Russian (A1)

Expertise

Thermography Collection of data with a thermographic camera and its analysis withcorresponding software.

Coding Python, Fotran, Bash Script, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP,HTML, SQL (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), Access

Operating systems Windows, Linux (server and desktop)

Software Mathematica, MATLAB, Origin, Solidworks, MS Office, LATEX,LS-Dyna, LS-Prepost, COMSOL, Adobe Bridge, Lightroom andPhotoshop, Steinberg Cubase, Open Source Blogsystems and CMS(Serendipity, Wordpress)

Photography Owner and photographer of/on www.livepics.at.

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