Andriy Velyhan

Andriy Velyhan was born in Uzhgorod, Ukraine, in 1976. He received the M.Sc. degree in physics from Uzhgorod State University, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. The topic of his doctoral thesis relates to the secondary emission and field emission from micrometer-size cosmic grains. He is currently with the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, where he is involved in the research of laser-induced highly charged ion beams and detection of neutron radiation by means of thermoluminescent dosimetry.