Jan G. Švec, Ph.D. is a Czech physicist performing basic research in
various areas of human voice production. He has worked as a research
scientist in Prague, the Czech Republic, spent 3 years at the
National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver, CO, USA, and
currently he is at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He
designed videokymography, the method for high-speed visualization of
vocal-fold vibrations, performed research on singing voice registers,
on resonance properties of the vocal folds, on occupational voice,
etc.
Jan collaborates with numerous research teams in Europe and USA and lectures world-wide. Also, he is an amateur jazz singer and guitar player. He is the current chairman of the Voice Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).