Jan G. Švec

Who is Jan G. Švec?

Jan G. Švec is a Czech voice scientist. He is the inventor of videokymography, a method for high-speed visualization of vocal-fold vibrations, which is being used for advanced diagnosis of voice disorders.

As of 2011, Jan G. Švec has written over 140 publications in various areas of voice research: visualization of vocal fold vibration through videokymography; voice registers; singing voice; methodology of voice measurement; voice dosimetry; determination of biomechanical properties of vocal folds; vocal fold and vocal tract modelling; clinical measurement of voice; and scientometry.

Jan G. Švec was born 22.11.1966 in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He received his M.Sc. in fine mechanics and optics, and two Ph.D. degrees in biophysics and medical sciences. From 1995-1999, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education, Prague, Czech Republic. In 2001-2004 he was a Visiting Research Professor at the National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO, USA and in 2004-2007 a Research Scientist at the Groningen Voice Research Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.