Jaroslav Hruby

Jaroslav Hruby studied biomedical engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague. He started working in diamond research in his third year and developed an automated measurement system for diamond nanoparticle imaging for his bachelor thesis. During his master’s degree, he went for an ERASMUS exchange study program to Hasselt (Belgium) for a year. There he contributed to an article on a new diamond magnetometry readout method published in Nature Communication. Currently, he is a doctoral student at UHasselt in the group of Quantum Photonics, at imo-imomec, supervised by Prof. Dr. M. Nesladek. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis is quantum magnetometry. In 2016 and 2018, Jaroslav Hruby led a student development project of a portable diamond magnetometer sent to the stratosphere during the OSCAR project within the REXUS/BEXUS program for students. Now, he is leading a student team that develops the next magnetometer iteration that will be tested onboard the International Space Station within the Orbit Your Thesis! program of ESA.