Michael is from Chicago and at ELI Beamlines works as a laser physicist in the L1 and L2 laser teams. The big project he is working on now is an optical stretcher for the L2 laser system, which is the fourth and last main laser system we install at ELI. Michael finds Czechs to be very easy going. He likes the concept of "chatas" :-), he thinks everyone should have a quiet place in nature to spend time.