Department of Medical Physics, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
Bio
Josef Novotny graduated from CTU in Prague Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, where he also received PhD in 2003. He is currently head of the Department of Medical Physics at Na Homolce Hospital. He also has two university academic appointments at CTU in Prague and Charles University. Professionally he is a radiotherapy physicist with the focus on stereotactic radiosurgery. He has been involved in development of two gamma knife systems and performed over 100 system start-ups of this device worldwide. His scientific and academic activities include 11 grants, over 100 peer-reviewed papers, 15 chapters in books. His H-index is 25.