Petr Jizba is a faculty member of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Petr holds two MSc degrees in Physics from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Cambridge University, UK, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from DAMT, Cambridge University, UK. Petr habilitated in statistical physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

He has participated as principal investigator (or co-investigator) in numerous national and international research projects. From 2000 to 2004 he was a JSPS Fellow and Foreign Professor at Tsukuba University in Japan in the Department of Physics, and from 2008 to 2012 he was an AvH and DFG Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin.  In 2010 he received a tenure position at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague..

Among other things, his current research interests include the generalized statistics, complex dynamical systems, statistical quantum field theory and cosmology.