Jiri Hostas
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Dennis Salahub group
PhD. - Computational chemistry
Charles university (in the group of prof. Pavel Hobza), Prague, Czech Republic, 2017
MSc. - Computational chemistry
Charles university, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012
BSc. - Chemistry
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010
Contact information
Phone
Office: +1 (403) 220-4432
Location
Office
: BI555
Research
Research areas and Expertise
- DFT
- Ab initio
- Multi-scale modelling
- Machine learning
- Noncovalent interactions
- Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Hyperopt)
Biography
Jiri Hostas is a postdoctoral associate working at the Centre For Molecular Simulation based at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. He studied computational chemistry at Charles University in Prague, where he obtained his Ph.D. with Pavel Hobza in 2017. Since then, he spents his postdoctoral study with D. R. Salahub at the University of Calgary. He is a computational chemist interested mainly in non-covalent interactions and he is working on development of methods able to describe partial heavy oil upgrading, accurate calculations of host-guest systems, and application of machine learning algorithms in chemistry. He has published more than 10 papers on these and related topics.