Martin Kákona

Junior Researcher at Nuclear Physics Institute of CAS

Martin Kákona finished his PhD in 2020. He is mainly engaged in the development and research of a semiconductor and scintillation spectrometer of ionizing radiation in mixed radiation fields at mountain observatories, aircraft and spacecraft. Several pieces of this equipment are currently being manufactured and performed many measurements in the CERF reference field, at accelerators (HIMAC, ELBE, Tandetron, U120M and monoenergy electron sources), onboard aircraft, in stratospheric balloons, on alpine observatories and last but not least, one detector was placed on the Socrat R satellite and one detector was installed on the International Space Station. He participated in the ESA Summer of Code in Space 2015 grant. As part of this grant, he programmed a web application for accessing data from long-term cosmic ray measurements on board aircraft (see publications). This application is used by ODZ staff for subsequent analysis of measured data. Most recently, he worked mainly on the equipment of mobile laboratories for measurements in thunderstorms within the CRREAT project.