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Department of Bioelectrodynamics
Institute of Photonics and Electronics,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Address: Chaberska 57, 182 51 Prague 8, The Czech Republic
Phone: +420-2-6677-3454
e-mail: cifra AT ufe.cz
Position: Chairman of department

PhD., 2009, Radioelectronics, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Ing. (M.Sc.), 2006, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic

Theory of electromagnetic field (exercises), 2006-2007 at the Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague
Waves and transmission lines (exercises), 2008 at the Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague
Offered internships, semester, bachelor, master and PhD projects: here

Electromagnetics, photonics
Endogenous electromagnetic fields of biological systems
Measurement and computer simulation of electromagnetic fields of biological systems

Cifra, M.
"Electrodynamic eigenmodes in cellular morphology ",
BioSystems, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 356–366, 2012, paper

Havelka, D., Cifra, M., Kučera, O., Pokorný, J., Vrba, J.,
"High-frequency electric field and radiation characteristics of cellular microtubule network",
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 286, no. 1, p. 31-40, 2011, paper

Cifra, M., Fields, J. Z., Farhadi, A.,
"Electromagnetic cellular interactions",
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, vol 105, no. 3, p. 223-246, 2011, paper

Pokorný, J., Vedruccio, C., Cifra, M., Kučera, O.,
"Cancer physics: Diagnostics based on damped cellular elasto-electrical vibrations in microtubules",
European Biophysics Journal, vol. 40, no. 6, 747-759, 2011, paper

Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Havelka, D., Kučera, O.,
"Electric field generated by axial longitudinal vibration modes of microtubule",
BioSystems, vol. 100, no. 2, p. 122 - 131, 2010, paper

Kučera, O., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J.,
"Technical aspects of measurement of cellular electromagnetic activity",
European Biophysics Journal, vol. 39, no. 10, p. 1465-1470, 2010, paper

Cifra, M.,
"Study of electromagnetic oscillations of yeast cells in kHz and GHz region",
PhD Thesis, 2009, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic download here

Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Kučera, O.,
"Vibrations of electrically polar structures in biosystems give rise to electromagnetic field: theories and experiments",
In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2009, Moscow, Russia, August 18-21. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2009, p. 138 - 142. ISSN 1559-9450 paper

Jelínek F., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Vaniš, J., Hašek, J., Šimša, J., Frýdlová, I.,
“Measurement of electrical oscillations and mechanical vibrations of yeast cells membrane around 1 kHz”,
Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 223 - 232, 2009, paper

Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Hašek, J.,
"Measurement of Yeast Cell Electrical Oscillations around 1 kHz",
In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2-6. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2008, p. 780-784. ISSN 1559-9450 paper

Van Wijk, E., Van Wijk, R.,Cifra, M.,
“Spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission from human hands varies diurnally”,
In Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6633 Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science, Jürgen Popp, Gert von Bally, Editors, 2007, Jul. 3, 66331J
paper, poster

Cifra, M., Van Wijk, E., Koch, H., Bosman, S., Van Wijk, R.,
“Spontaneous Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Human Hands Is Time Dependent”,
Radioengineering, 2007, Vol. 16, n. 2, p. 15-19, ISSN 1210-2512 paper

Cifra, M.,
“Measurement of spontaneous photon emission from the human body: technical aspects, parameters, time and temperature dependent fluctuations of photon emission”,
master degree thesis, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic download here

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IEEE / IEEE Czechoslovak chapter
OSA
SPIE
Radioengineering society
URSI

Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Scholarship, UNICAMP - Campinas, Brazil, 1 month, 2010
Diploma from Natural Sciences section of 13th International Student Conference of Electrical Engineering - POSTER 2009
URSI Young Scientist Award 2008
Scholarship from foundation of CTU Rectorate, 2008
Stanislav Hanzl's CTU foundation Scholarship, 2007
Scholarship from Hlávka foundation, 2007
Scholarship from foundation of CTU Rectorate, 2007
Scholarship from Czechoslovak section of IEEE, 2007
Student scientific competition - diploma, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, 2006
Leonardo Da Vinci project Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology & ELCAT, GmbH, 3 months, 2005
Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology, 1 semester, 2004

Biophysical and medical aspects of electromagnetic cellular interactions, 2012, Biophysical Aspects of Complexity in Health and Disease, Lugano, 18-19 May 2012, Switzerland pps file
Role of organized water in coherence of cellular electrodynamics, 2011, Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, Mount Snow Resort, Vermont, 20-23 October 2011, USA, pps file
Bioelectrodynamics of cellular organization and interactions, 2011, Electromagnetic fields and Quantum phenomena in the Biological Systems, Poznań, 20 May 2011, Poland
Role of electromagnetic field in cellular organization and interactions, 2010, Summer School on Biophotonics and Applications of Biophotons, International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany
Elektromagnetické (EM) pole buněk: role mikrotubulů a mitochondrií, 2009, Microbiology Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Ultra weak photon emission (UPE) from living organisms: aspects of integrative biophysics, 2008, Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Current
GACR P102/10/P454 - 2010-2012 - Postdoc project - Measurement and Analysis of Local Electric Oscillations and Optical Emission of Biomolecular Nanostructures

Past
MSM FRVS 2371 F3a - 2011 - Demonstrative ultra weak photon emission measurement system
GACR GD102/08/H081 - 2008-2009 - Nonstandard applications of physical fields
CTU0913413 - 2009 - Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2009 in Moscow: Vibrations of electrically polar structures in biosystems give rise to electromagnetic field: theories and experiments
CTU0806413 - 2008 - Measurement and computer simulation of electromagnetic oscillations of living cells
MSM FRVS 2300 G3 - 2008 - Computer Modelling for Inovation of Education in the Generation and Interaction of Electromagnetic Field in Biological Systems
CTU0711813 - 2007 - Measurement of Spontaneous Ultra-weak Photon Emission from Human Body: Spontaneous Ultra-weak Photon Emission from Human Hands Varies Diurnally

Biophysics Department, (MD. Ing. K. P. Michalak, Dr. H. N. Nawrocka), University of Medical Sciences of Poznań, Poland
Biophotonics Laboratory (Prof. C. de M. Gallep), University of Campinas, Faculty of technology, Brasil
Industrial Bioengineering Group (Dr. M. A. Deriu), Department of Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Meluna – Research in Biophotonics, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Quantum theory of matter group, Institute of mineralogy and condensed state physics, University of P. and M. Currie, Paris, France
S.U.P.E.R. Lab, Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Oldenburg, Germany
DATABASE - Ultraweak photon emission of biological systems

Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Technical University in Prague
Laboratory of Cell Reproduction, Microbiology Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Group of "Reactive oxygen species in living systems", Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc
Department of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Laboratory of Biology of Cytoskeleton, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of technology
Laboratory of Biology of Cytoskeleton, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

last updated: 10.09. 2012