Ondřej Kubů 🔶

Research mathematician (Severo Ochoa postdoc, ICMAT-CSIC Madrid) moving into technical AI safety or governance. Doctoral training in mathematical physics: differential geometry and integrable systems, with substantial graduate work in operator and spectral theory. 10 peer-reviewed articles.

Postdoc Severo Ochoa
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT), Madrid, Spain
December 2024 - November 2026
Supervisor: Piergiulio Tempesta

Public writing: ARC's research agenda: solid mathematics, an unclear safety case (Jul 2026), first in a series on AI-safety orgs for mathematicians moving into the field; and AI in Mathematics, 2026: From Assistant to Top Researcher (Aug 2026).

Volunteer, PauseAI CZ, z. s. (2026 - present)
Author of the weekly newsletter Pozastavení nad AI ("Pondering AI"). Each issue synthesizes news about frontier AI and its policy implications for a Czech-speaking audience, i.e., with a focus on EU and Czech policy contexts.

AGI Strategy course, BlueDot Impact (Jul 2026) – certificate. Final project on compute-governance verification through hardware-enabled mechanisms.

Compute Verification 1, LENS Academy (Aug–Oct 2026) – certificate (Associate tier). Cohort course on treaty verification, from precedents and evidence to hardware mechanisms.

Independent study of formal impossibility results in AI control (Alfonseca et al. on containment, Yampolskiy on controllability).

Giving What We Can 10% Pledge – committed to donating 10% of lifetime income to effective charities.

Ph.D. in Mathematical Engineering
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
2020 - 2024
Thesis: Integrability and superintegrability in the presence of magnetic fields: separable and nonseparable systems
Supervisors: L. Šnobl, A. Marchesiello

Master's Degree with Honors (Ing.)
Czech Technical University in Prague
2018 - 2020
Thesis: Integrable and superintegrable systems of cylindrical type in magnetic fields
Supervisor: L. Šnobl, Consultant: P. Winternitz

Bachelor's Degree with Honors
Czech Technical University in Prague
2015 - 2018
Thesis: Symmetries of superintegrable systems
Supervisor: L. Šnobl

• Rector's Award for Excellent Doctoral Thesis (2025)
• Milan Odehnal Award – Honorable Mention (2024)
• Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates of public universities in Prague (2023)
• Dean's Award for the 2nd best Master Thesis (2021)

• Integrable and superintegrable systems
• Haantjes algebras and symplectic-Haantjes geometry
• Separation of variables
• Systems with magnetic fields and velocity-dependent potentials
• Differential geometry in mathematical physics
• Classical and quantum mechanics

ERASMUS+ Research Exchange
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Spring 2023
Supervisor: P. Tempesta

ERASMUS+ Research Exchange
Université de Montréal, Canada
Fall 2019
Supervisor: P. Winternitz

Software: Maple, LaTeX; author of an open Maple package for Nijenhuis/Haantjes torsion computation, NijenhuisHaantjesTorsion (2026). Basics of C++; daily use of AI coding assistants in research.

Coursework: Doctoral courses, all graded 1 (excellent): Schrödinger Operators; Geometrical Aspects of Spectral Theory; Operator Semigroups; Classification and Identification of Lie Algebras; Solvable Models of Mathematical Physics.

Service: 4 peer reviews for Journal of Physics A

Languages: Czech (native), English (C1-C2), German (B2/C1), French (B2), Spanish (A2)