People of the Lab

Bára Kozlíková is the head of visitlab. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Graphics in 2011 and she works as an Associate Professor at FI MU since 2017.

Her main research interest is in visualization and visual analysis of biomolecules, as this was her very first research topic. But she is keen on diverse visualization topics and its application areas.

She is a slight workaholic, happy to work with people. She loves traveling, hiking, reading, playing piano, and photography.

Jan Byška is an Assistant professor at Masaryk University and a part-time Associate professor at the University of Bergen. His work focuses on various challenges in the field of visualization of biomolecular and time-dependent data.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Graphics in 2016. After that, he spent 3 years as a postdoc at the University of Bergen.

Jan enjoys sci-fi movies, puzzles, and software development. Much to the dislike of his colleagues, he can spend endless hours by refactoring (and breaking) pieces of code that worked flawlessly before.

Jirka Chmelík is a member of Visitlab. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Graphics in 2013, and since then, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at FI MU.

Jirka's main research interest is human-computer interaction, especially using virtual reality. He is also interested in game development and keeping Visitlab and its sister laboratory hci.fi.muni.cz in sync.

Katka Furmanová is an Assistant professor at Masaryk University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Graphics in 2019 from the same university. Afterward, she spent one year as a postdoc at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her primary research interest is the visualization of medical and molecular data. Katka enjoys painting, crafting, hiking, and baking (much to the delight of Jan).

RNDr. Vít Rusňák, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at Masaryk University. His research interests include the user-centered design of interactive visualizations, visual analysis, and collaborative user interfaces. In the past, he also did the research in the interaction with large high-resolution displays and computer-supported collaborative work. His teaching activities include several HCI, gamedev and visualization courses.

Adam Rychlý is a PhD candidate who joined in 2024. His research focuses on visualisation and analysis of the charomatin fiber in both 3D and 2D. He is currently working on creating tools that would allow biologists to easily analyze and visualize differences between different chromatin strands. Apart from his research, Adam enjoys graphics programming, playing board games, DnD, rock climbing, and growing plants. Lastly, despite what some people in the lab might tell you, he does not actually like to watch Naked Attraction.

Adam Štěpánek joined in 2023. He works on projects involving software visualization, computer graphics, and game development. His two primary projects are Helveg, a tool visualizing software architecture as an interactive node-link diagram, and KAFE, a multimedia web archive.

Every now and then he GMs a session of Oneshot, eats cheese, or goes on a week-long hike.

Hana Pokojná joined as a Ph.D. student in 2021. She is working on series of projects that combine science, art, and modern-day technology, aiming to translate complex biomedical occurances. Since starting at MUNI, she's been 'drawing science' for other research labs, as well as teaching 3D modelling and life-drawing classes. If she's not doing either of those in her free time, she's hiked away far from other people and computers. She likes jellyfish and pot noodles.

Jirka Horák is Mňau. Also a PhD candidate, officially.

Music, board & computer games, programming, drawing, Lord of the Rings and nerding generally. But also hiking and Japanese. And food. A bit of everything, really.

Cats! Did I forget about cats?

Jonáš Rosecký joined the lab in 2024. His research focuses on the visualization of geospatial data and the study of the impact of game elements on their perception and understanding. The topic involves collaboration with international experts from the Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy at University College Dublin as part of the Craft-my-Street project. He also collaborates with the group Formela at FI MUNI, where he helps visualize strategies for patrolling games.

Apart from the time in lab, he spends weekends and summer as a counselor in a non-profit organization. He also enjoys playing board games as well as sandbox video-games. His homepage in Notion says "Please go touch some grass" in big bold letters.

Matěj Lang is a Ph.D. candidate who joined in 2019. He works on multiple projects, including visualizing data from Antarctica. He also collaborates with the group Formela at FI MUNI, where he helps visualize strategies for patrolling games.

He holds an MSE degree in Cybernetics, automation, and measurement from Brno University of Technology, where he specialized in computer vision and machine learning.

Apart from his doctorate, he works at Thermo Fisher Scientific on electron microscopy automation. He also likes to cook for many people at once.

Nika Kunzová is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Informatics since 2023. Her research focus is on enhancing the reading experience of written fiction in virtual reality. Prior to the Ph.D. study, she received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Graphics and Image Processing and her master’s degree in Graphic Design, both at FI MUNI.

During her time at the university she also got experience in all kinds of visual arts, movie production, and most importantly, in game development – it has become a huge part of her life, both professionally and in free time. And because the chaos caused by the unpredictable game dev industry is not enough, she loves escaping reality by playing tabletop RPGs and cosplaying, having a blast at rock and metal concerts to clear her head, and traveling to other countries to get fresh perspectives on life.

Vojtěch Brůža is a Ph.D. candidate. He has been a member of visitlab since its beginnings in 2018. He started his Ph.D. in 2019 and specializes in interactive visualizations in virtual reality for educational purposes.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics, he started to dive into computer graphics and visualizations. He then received his master’s degree in Applied Informatics from the Masaryk University.

Apart from his doctorate, he is also a keen musician and loves to do sports. He also enjoys creative activities such as generative design and music composition.

Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoy no description needed. By far the most hugged member of the lab.