Science is a wonderful thing if one doesn't have to earn one's living on it... [A.Einstein] , 00:00:00
Michal Malinský
Full professor of particle and nuclear physics
IPNP, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague

Address:
Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Charles University in Prague
V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Praha 8
Czech Republic

Web: https://ipnp.cz/~malinsky
E-mail: michal.malinskymatfyz.cuni.cz
Phone: +420 95155 2438
Fax: +420 95155 2434
Research interests:
  • Baryon and lepton number violation in the Standard Model and beyond
  • Particle physics aspects of modern cosmology
  • Collider and precision tests of the Standard Model
  • Renormalization and vacuum structure of quantum field theories
  • Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories
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  • 2010-2012: FP7 MC postdoc at the AHEP group, IFIC/University of Valencia, Spain
  • 2008-2010: Postdoc at the Theoretical particle physics group, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2006: UPAS at the CERN theory group, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2005-2008: PPARC postdoc at the SHEP group, University of Southampton, UK
  • 2003-2005: Associate of the Instituto di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trieste, Italy
  • 2001-2005: Associate of the Centre for Particle Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2002-2005: Doctoral student at SISSA/ISAS Trieste *)
  • 1999-2005: Doctoral student at IPNP, Charles University in Prague
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    Selected projects:
  • 2024-2029: Charles University Center for Particle Physics and Cosmology (CPPC)
  • 2020-2022: New physics hints from the perspective of gauge extensions of the SM
  • 2017-2019: Baryon and lepton number violation in the Standard Model and beyond
  • 2012-2016: Low-energy aspects of grand unification and their experimental tests
  • 2010-2012: Flavour, unification and experimental tests
    • Regular/individual articles:
    Universal global analytic expansion for the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole profiles
    arXiv:2606.02810 [hep-th], to be submitted to Phys.Rev.D.
    Resurgent structure of the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole
    arXiv:2602.14620 [hep-th], published as Phys. Rev. D Letters 114 (2026), L011905,
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mm8d-1qd4.
    Leptogenesis in the minimal flipped SU(5) unification
    with R. M. Fonseca da Sousa, V. Miřátský, M. Zdráhal
    arXiv:2312.08357 [hep-ph], published as Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024) 1, 015030,
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.015030.
    Trouble with the minimal renormalizable SO(10) GUT
    with K. Jarkovská and V. Susič
    arXiv:2304.14227 [hep-ph], published as Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 5, 055003,
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.055003.
    Quantum nature of the minimal potentially realistic SO(10) Higgs model
    with K. Jarkovská and V. Susič
    arXiv:2109.06784 [hep-ph], published as Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 9, 095003,
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.095003.
    Flavorgenesis
    with A. Ekstedt and R.M. Fonseca da Sousa
    arXiv:2009.03909 [hep-ph], published as Phys.Lett.B 816 (2021) 136212,
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136212.
    Hierarchy and decoupling
    with M. Hudec
    arXiv:1902.04470 [hep-ph], published as J.Phys. G47 (2020) no.1, 015004,
    DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab5138.
    Collider phenomenology of a unified leptoquark model
    with T. Faber, M. Hudec, H. Kolesova, Y. Liu, W. Porod and F. Staub
    arXiv:1812.07592 [hep-ph], published as Phys.Rev. D101 (2020) no.9, 095024,
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.095024.
    Flavour Structure of GUTs and Uncertainties in Proton Lifetime Estimates
    with H. Kolešová
    arXiv:1612.09178 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D 99, 035005 (2019).
    A unified leptoquark model confronted with lepton non-universality in B-meson decays
    with T. Faber, M. Hudec, P. Meinzinger, W. Porod and F. Staub
    arXiv:1808.05511 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B787, 159 (2018).
    Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited
    with D. Harries and M. Zdrahal
    arXiv:1808.02339 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D98, 095015 (2018).
    Effects of ultra-light dark matter on the gravitational quantum well
    with P. Castorina and A. Iorio
    arXiv:1707.08612 [hep-ph], published as Int. J. Mod. Phys. D27 no.09, 18500980 (2018) .
    One-loop pseudo-Goldstone masses in the minimal SO(10) Higgs model
    with L. Gráf, T. Mede and V. Susič
    arXiv:1611.01021 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D95, 075007 (2017).
    Neutrino-axion-dilaton interconnection
    with S. Bertolini, H. Kolešová, L. Di Luzio and J. C. Vasquez
    arXiv:1510.03668 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D93, 015009 (2016).
    Massive neutrinos and invisible axion minimally connected
    with S. Bertolini, H. Kolešová and L. Di Luzio
    arXiv:1412.7105 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D91, 055014 (2015).
    Proton lifetime in the minimal SO(10) GUT and its implications for the LHC
    with H. Kolešová,
    arXiv:1409.4961 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D90, 115001 (2014)
    LHC-scale left-right symmetry and unification
    with C. Arbeláez Rodríguez, M. Hirsch and J.C.Romao,
    arXiv:1311.3228 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D89, 035002 (2014).
    Witten's mechanism in the flipped SU(5) unification
    with C. Arbeláez Rodríguez and H. Kolešová,
    arXiv1309.6743 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D89, 055003 (2014).
    Renormalization group equations and matching in a general quantum field theory with kinetic mixing
    with R. M. Fonseca and F. Staub,
    arXiv1308.1674 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B726, 882 (2013).
    Light colored octet scalars in the minimal SO(10) grand unification
    with S. Bertolini, L. Di Luzio,
    arXiv:1302.3401 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D87, 085020 (2013).
    Fun with the abelian Higgs model
    arXiv:1212.4660 [hep-ph], published as European Physical Journal C73, 2415 (2013).
    Seesaw scale in the minimal renormalizable SO(10) grand unification
    with S. Bertolini, L. Di Luzio,
    arXiv:1202.0807 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D85, 095014 (2012).
    Hefty MSSM-like light Higgs in extended gauge models
    with M. Hirsch, W. Porod, L. Reichert and F. Staub,
    arXiv:1110.3037 [hep-ph], published as Journal of High Energy Physics 02, 084 (2012).
    Running soft parameters in SUSY models with multiple U(1) gauge factors
    with R. M. Fonseca, W. Porod and F. Staub,
    arXiv:1107.2670 [hep-ph], published as Nuclear Physics B854, 28 (2012).
    Soft masses in SUSY SO(10) GUTs with low intermediate scales
    with V. De Romeri and M. Hirsch,
    arXiv:1107.3412 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D84, 053012 (2011).
    Non-standard antineutrino interactions at Daya Bay
    with R. Leitner, B. Roskovec and H. Zhang,
    arXiv:1105.5580 [hep-ph], published as Journal of High Energy Physics 12, 001 (2011).
    The minimal flipped SO(10) x U(1) supersymmetric Higgs model
    with S. Bertolini and L. Di Luzio,
    arXiv:1011.1821 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D83, 035002 (2011).
    Flavour structure of supersymmetric SO(10) GUTs with extended matter sector
    with M. Heinze,
    arXiv:1008.4813 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D83, 035018 (2011).
    Renormalization group running of neutrino parameters in the inverse seesaw model
    with J. Bergstrom, T. Ohlsson and H. Zhang,
    arXiv:1004.4628 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D81, 116006 (2010).
    The vacuum of the minimal nonsupersymmetric SO(10) unification
    with S. Bertolini and L. Di Luzio,
    arXiv:0912.1796 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D81, 035015 (2010).
    Quark mixing sum rules and the right unitarity triangle
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King and M. Spinrath
    arXiv:0910.5127 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D81, 033008 (2010).
    Non-unitary neutrino mixing and CP violation in the minimal inverse seesaw model
    with T. Ohlsson, Z.-z. Xing, H. Zhang,
    arXiv:0905.2889 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B679, 242 (2009).
    Intermediate mass scales in the non-supersymmetric SO(10) grand unification: a reappraisal
    with S. Bertolini and L. Di Luzio,
    arXiv:0903.4049 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D80, 015013 (2009).
    Non-unitarity effects in a realistic low-scale seesaw model
    with T. Ohlsson and H. Zhang,
    arXiv:0903.1961 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D79(RC), 073009 (2009).
    Non-standard Neutrino Interactions from a Triplet Seesaw Model
    with T. Ohlsson and H. Zhang,
    arXiv:0811.3346 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D79, 011301 (2009).
    Perturbative Estimates of Lepton Mixing Angles in Unified Models
    with S. Antusch and S.F. King,
    arXiv:0810.3863 [hep-ph], published as Nuclear Physics B820, 32 (2009).
    Solving the SUSY Flavour and CP Problems with Non-Abelian Family Symmetry and Supergravity
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King and G.G. Ross,
    arXiv:0807.5047 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B670, 383-389 (2009).
    Higgs sector of the next-to-minimal renormalizable SUSY SO(10)
    arXiv:0807.0591 [hep-ph], unpublished.
    Flavon inflation
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King, L. Velasco-Sevilla, I. Zavala,
    arXiv:0805.0325 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B666, 176-180 (2008).
    Third Family Corrections to Quark and Lepton Mixing in SUSY Models with non-Abelian Family Symmetry
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King,
    arXiv:0712.3759 [hep-ph], published as Journal of High Energy Physics 05, 066 (2008).
    Third Family Corrections to Tri-bimaximal Lepton Mixing and a New Sum Rule
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King,
    arXiv:0711.4727 [hep-ph], published as Physics Letters B671, 263-266 (2009).
    Quark and lepton masses and mixing in SO(10) with a GUT-scale vector matter
    arXiv:0710.0581 [hep-ph], published as Physical Review D77, 055016 (2008).
    Solving the SUSY Flavour and CP Problems with SU(3) Family Symmetry
    with S. Antusch, S.F. King,
    arXiv:0708.1282 [hep-ph], published as Journal of High Energy Physics 06, 068 (2008).
    A(4) Family Symmetry and Quark-Lepton Unification
    with S.F. King,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0610250], published as Physics Letters B645, 351 (2007).
    Towards a Complete Theory of Fermion Masses and Mixings with SO(3) Symmetry and 5-D SO(10) Unification,
    with S.F. King,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0608021], published as Journal of High Energy Physics 11, 071 (2006).
    Thermal leptogenesis in extended supersymmetric seesaw,
    with M. Hirsch, J.C. Romao, U. Sarkar, J.W.F. Valle,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0608006], published as Physical Review D75(RC), 011701 (2007).
    Fermion masses and mixings in SO(10) models and the neutrino challenge to SUSY GUTs,
    with S. Bertolini, T. Schwetz
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0605006], published as Physical Review D73, 115012 (2006).
    Novel Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism
    with J. Romao, J.F.Valle,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0506296], published as Physical Review Letters 95, 161801 (2005).
    On CP Violation in Minimal Renormalizable SUSY SO(10) and Beyond,
    with S. Bertolini,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0504241], published as Physical Review D72, 055021 (2005).
    Possible non-decoupling effects of heavy Higgs bosons in e+ e- to W+W- in THDM,
    with J. Horejsi,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0409320], published as Eur.Phys.J.C40, 137-144 (2005).
    Fermion masses in SUSY SO(10) with type II seesaw: a non-minimal predictive scenario ,
    with S. Bertolini, M. Frigerio,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0406117], published as Physical Review D70, 095002 (2004).
    Triple gauge vertices at one-loop level in THDM ,
    with J. Horejsi,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0308247], published as Eur.Phys.J.C34, 477-486 (2004).
    Nondecoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Particles in Two Higgs Doublet Model,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0207066], published as Acta Phys.Slov. 52, 259-264 (2002).
    MSSM Higgs Sector at the One-Loop Level,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0005087], published as Czech.J.Phys. 50, 989-1004 (2000).
    Collaboration papers (Hyper-K):
    Hyper-Kamiokande: Neutrino Astrophysics and Status,
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration (K. Abe at al.)
    published as PoS ICRC2025 (2025) 1215.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.1215
    The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment: input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics,
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration (K. Abe at al.)
    arXiv:2506.16641 [hep-ex].
    Sensitivity of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment to neutrino oscillation parameters using accelerator neutrinos,
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration (K. Abe at al.)
    arXiv:2505.15019 [hep-ex], published as Eur.Phys.J.C 86 (2026) 2, 170.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14938-9
    Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande,
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration (K. Abe at al.)
    arXiv:2101.05269 [astro-ph.IM], published as Astrophys.J. 916 (2021) 1, 15.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf7c4
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment -- Snowmass LOI,
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration (K. Abe at al.)
    arXiv:2009.00794 [physics.ins-det].
    Reviews and "white papers":
    Searches for Baryon Number Violation in Neutrino Experiments: A White Paper,
    with P.S.B. Dev, L.W. Koerner, S. Saad, S. Antusch, M. Askins, K.S. Babu, J.L. Barrow, J. Chakrabortty, A. de Gouvea, Z. Djurcic, S. Girmohanta, I. Gogoladze, M.C. Goodman, A. Higuera, D. Kalra, G. Karagiorgi, E. Kearns, V.A. Kudryavtsev, T. Kutter, J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux, D.A. Martinez Caicedo, R.N. Mohapatra, P. Nath, S. Nussinov, V. Pec, A. Rafique, J. Rodriguez Rondon, R. Shrock, H.W. Sobel, T. Stokes, M. Strait, R. Svoboda, S. Syritsyn, V. Takhistov, Y.-T. Tsai, R.A. Wendell, Y.-L. Zhou,
    arXiv:2203.08771 [hep-ex], published as Journal of Physics G 51 (2024) 3, 033001, DOI:10.1088/1361-6471/ad1658.
    Supersymmetry beyond the NMSSM,
    with Florian Staub, Mark D. Goodsell and Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
    published as Advances in High Energy Physics, vol. 2015, Article ID 121508, DOI:10.1155/2015/121508.
    Probing the Origin of Neutrino Mass at the CERN Large Hadron Collider,
    with J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, B. Bajc, F. de Campos, O.J.P. Eboli, P.F. Perez, W. Grimus, Tao Han, M. Hirsch, L. Lavoura, M.B. Magro, R.N. Mohapatra, S. Morisi, B. Mukhopadhyaya, W. Porod, D. Restrepo, G. Senjanovic, J.C. Romao, J. Schechter and J.W.F. Valle,
    chapter 9 of the review "The Hunt for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider",
    a "white paper" of the "BSM-LHC" (Pre-SUSY09) workshop, Boston, June 2-4, 2009,
    arXiv:1001.2693 [hep-ph], published as Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 200-202, 185 (2010).
    Monographies:
    Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixing in SUSY Grand Unified Theories,
    monography based on the SISSA/ISAS Ph.D. thesis,
    ISBN 978-3-639-71619-1, published in 2014 by Scholars' Press, available here.
    Papers in conference proceedings:
    Baryogenesis through leptogenesis in the minimal flipped SU(5) model with radiative seesaw
    R. M. Fonseca, M. Malinský, V. Mirátský, M. Zdráhal,
    in proceedings of the CORFU 2024 conference, Kerkyra, Greece.
    arXiv:2506.23113 [hep-ph], published in PoS CORFU2024 (2025) 123, DOI: 10.22323/1.490.0123.
    Thermal Leptogenesis in Minimal Unified Models
    in proceedings of the V4-HEP 3 meeting, Bratislava, Slovakia.
    arXiv:2506.23117 [hep-ph], published in Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 18 (2025) 6, 6-A5.
    The quantum nature of the "minimal" SO(10) GUT
    in proceedings of the DISCRETE 2022 conference, Baden-Baden, Germany.
    Published in Proceedings of Science DISCRETE2022 (2024) 045, DOI:10.22323/1.431.0045.
    Lepton non-universality in B-decays in the minimal leptoquark gauge model
    prepared for the proceedings of the FPCP2019 conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2019,
    arXiv:1906.09174 [hep-ph], to be published in the Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive.
    Theoretical uncertainties in proton lifetime estimates
    prepared for the proceedings of the CETUP* 2015 workshop, Lead, South Dakota, USA, July 2015,
    arXiv:1510.05611 [hep-ph], to be published in AIP Conference Proceedings.
    Minimal SO(10) grand unification at next-to-leading order
    prepared for the proceedings of the International Conference on High Energy Physics ICHEP 2014, Valencia, Spain, July 2014,
    arXiv:1410.7644 [hep-ph], to be published in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements.
    Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification
    prepared for the proceedings of the CETUP* 2013 workshop, Lead, South Dakota, USA, July 2013,
    arXiv:1310.0914 [hep-ph], to be published in AIP Conference Proceedings.
    Running soft parameters in SUSY models with multiple U(1) gauge factors
    R. M. Fonseca, M. Malinský, W. Porod, F. Staub,
    published as Journal of Physics: Conference Series 447 (2013) 012034.
    Structure and prospects of the simplest SO(10) GUTs
    prepared for the proceedings of the CETUP* 2012 workshop, Lead, South Dakota, USA, July 2012,
    arXiv:1210.3789 [hep-ph], published as AIP Conference Proceedings 1534, 293 (2013).
    Towards the New Minimal SO(10) Grand Unification
    prepared for the proceedings of the GUT'2012 conference, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012,
    arXiv:1205.5637 [hep-ph], published as AIP Conference Proceedings 1467, 37 (2012).
    The quantum vacuum of the minimal SO(10) GUT,
    prepared for the proceedings of the PASCOS'10 conference, Valencia, Spain, July 2010,
    arXiv:1010.0338 [hep-ph], published as Journal of Physics: Conference Series 259 (2010) 012098.
    Intermediate scales in non-supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theories,
    prepared for the proceedings of the EPS HEP'09 conference, Krakow, Poland, August 2009,
    arXiv:0909.2543 [hep-ph], published as Proceedings of Science, PoS(EPS-HEP 2009) 384.
    Non-unitarity effects in the minimal inverse seesaw model,
    prepared for the proceedings of the EPS HEP'09 conference, Krakow, Poland, August 2009,
    arXiv:0909.1953 [hep-ph], published as Proceedings of Science, PoS(EPS-HEP 2009) 288.
    Tackling the SUSY flavour & CP problem - SUGRA versus SU(3),
    prepared for the proceedings of the SUSY'07 conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2007,
    arXiv:0710.2430 [hep-ph]
    Lepton Masses and Mixings in Next-to-minimal Supersymmetric SO(10) GUT,
    prepared for the proceedings of the PASCOS'04 conference, Boston, MA, August 16-22, 2004,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0410363]
    Some Aspects of Radiative Corrections and Nondecoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Bosons in THDM,
    prepared for the proceedings of the 9th Adriatic Meeting (AM2003), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 4-14, 2003,
    [arXiv:hep-ph/0401091]
    Popular reviews:
    Nobel prize in physics 2015 - experimental confirmation of the effect of neutrino oscillations (in Czech) [pdf]
    to be published in Cs.cas.fyz. NN (2016), http://www.cscasfyz.fzu.cz.
    Quantum instability of matter (in Czech),
    published as Vesmír 94, vol. 1, p. 51 (2015), http://casopis.vesmir.cz.
    Neutrino masses and mixing in simple extensions of the Standard Model (in Czech) [pdf]
    published as Cs.cas.fyz. 59, 70 (2009), http://www.cscasfyz.fzu.cz.
    Theses:
    Habilitation thesis:
    Radiative effects in gauge extensions of the Standard Model of particle interactions [pdf]
    Thesis submitted for the associate professor degree at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, February 2020.
    Doctoral thesis 1:
    Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixing in Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories*) [pdf]
    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati/International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy; September 2005.
    *) Awarded the "2006 Votruba Prize"
    Doctoral thesis 2:
    Nondecoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Bosons in Two Higgs Doublet Extensions of the Standard Model [pdf]
    Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; July 2005.
    Master thesis:
    Higgs Particle Masses in Supersymmetric Models of Electroweak Interactions [pdf]
    Thesis submitted for Ing (MSc) degree, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, June 1999.
    Citations:
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