Juraj is finishing his PhD in Visualization (at UiB) and is currently employed as a researcher at the Geophysical institute. He holds a MSc in Computer Graphics and BSc in Physics from the Masaryk University in Brno.

In his current efforts, he is working on developing and validating a model of atmospheric convection. He is also a member of the gLidar project aimed at multimodal observation and analysis of atmospheric convection using paragliders and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems.

J. Palenik, T. Spengler and H. Hauser, "IsoTrotter: Visually Guided Empirical Modelling of Atmospheric Convection," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 775-784, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030389.

J. Pálenik, J. Byška, S. Bruckner and H. Hauser, "Scale-Space Splatting: Reforming Spacetime for Cross-Scale Exploration of Integral Measures in Molecular Dynamics," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 643-653, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934258.