Jan Kadlec

PhD studies (2020-)

  • WIS

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Decomposing complex congition tasks like remembering people into individual, independent, simple tasks like face memory, face perception, general cogntion etc. The goal is then to relate those to brain activity using fMRI methods and use neurofeedback to tweak them.

    Group of Michal Ramot

Master studies (2018-2020)

  • WIS

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Investigating the influence of reinforcement learning on generalization in humans using mathematical modelling.

    Group of Rony Paz

Bachelor studies (2015-2018)

Extracurriculum

Organiser

  • naboj

    Naboj, international math team competition, participating in years 2010-2015 and organising since 2016.

    Between years 2017-2021 part of the core team and since 2017 a translator of the problem set from English to Czech.

  • prase

    PraSe, monthly correspondence math competition, participating in years 2010-2014 and organising between years 2015-2021.

Music

  • orchestra_WIS

    Since 2022 member of the Weizmann orchestra and the first clarinetist. Since 2023 member of the Weizmann Orchestra Board.

    In years 2009 - 2017 member of several musical ensembles including the Svihov wind orchestra, the Jazz nonet and others.

Debating

  • debate

    Between years 2019-2021 member of the Weizmann Debate team

    Participating in the European Debate Championship:

    • EUDC 2020 in Astana, Kazakhstan (online),
    • EUDC 2021 in Madrid, Spain (online).

Languages

For talking to people

  • czech flag

    Czech, Native

  • british flag

    English, Fluent, C1/C2

  • german flag

    German, B2

  • hungarian flag

    Hungarian, A2/B1

For talking to computers

  • Python, Native
  • HTML, CSS, at least the level of creating this webpage
  • PHP, JavaScript, SQL, level of creating online experiments and deploying them
  • Matlab, level of creating behavioural experiments for in-lab use (PsychToolbox)
  • Bash, STAN, AWK, Rusty level (I have not used them in a while)

Conferences – posters and talks

Scholarships and awards

  • Natur CUNI

    2016, 2017

    Scholarship for excellent study results, Charles University

    Given to best 10 % of students of the faculty based on grades

  • Natur CUNI

    2016

    Extraordinary scholarship, Charles University

    Given for success in national levels of Olympiads in Chemistry and Astronomy

  • ChO

    2014, 2015

    Participating at national levels in Chemistry Olympiad

  • AO

    2014, 2015

    Participating at national levels in Astronomy Olympiad

  • Goethe institute

    2012

    Winner of the national level of the competition Deutsch für Helle Köpfe, organized by Goethe Institut in Prague and Academy of Science, Czech Republic

    More information and description can be found on this webpage.