Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 1963, MSc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME), Brno University of
• Technology (BUT), branch Machine Design and Operation
• 1972, PhD, FME-BUT, branch Thermomechanics and Liquid Mechanics
• 1980, PhD, Qualification Degree in Science IIa
• 1992, PhD, Qualification Degree in Science I
• April, 5, 1993, Associate Prof., FME-BUT, branch Mechanics
• May, 1, 1995, Prof., FME-BUT, branch Mechanics

Career overview

• 1963-1964, Assistant to Professor, Department of Thermomechanics, FME-BUT
• 1965-1967, Assistant to Professor, Department of Chemical Machines, FME-BUT
• 1967-1990, various positions in scientific research (research worker, scientific researcher, independent scientific researcher, scientific research group leader), State Research Institute of Materials, Brno, Branch for Foundry Research
• 1990-1993, Associate Professor, Department of Thermomechanics and Nuclear Energy, FME-BUT
• 1993-1996, Head of the Department of Thermomechanics and Nuclear Energy, FME-BUT
• 1996-1998, Head of the Department of Thermomechanics and Environmental Engineering of the Energy Institute, FME-BUT
• 1995-96 deputy director of the Energy Institute 
• 1998-today, Professor at the Department of Thermomechanics and Environmental Engineering of the Energy Institute, FME-BUT

Pedagogic activities

• 1963-69 lecturing of subjects Thermomechanics and Heat transfer
• 1970-1989 work in the field of education forbidden due to political status
• 1990 by now lecturing of subject Thermomechanics
• 1991 Proposal, institutionalisation and lecturing of a new course: Thermokinetics of solidification, cooling and heating
• 1995-06 Proposal, institutionalisation and lecturing of a new course: Applied Thermomechanics, later Selected writings/chapters from Thermomechanics
• 1991 by now supervisor of PhD study at FME-BUT Brno
• 2000 by now supervisor of PhD study at FMME-TU Ostrava
• 1997 by now member ob the state examination board for MA studies, FME-BUT Brno

Scientific activities

• Continuous and systematic work in the application of analog, today numerical, methods for investigation into transient temperature and tensile-strength fields in technological processes, including the simulation of latent heats of phase and structural changes, mainly in metallurgy and the founding of metal and ceramic materials, during solidification and cooling and heating, i.e. heat treatment. Application of these methods, the result of which is a set of original (even on an international scale) numerical models on the optimization of the technology of classical gravitational casting, pressure casting and, in recent years, concasting. (These models have been successfully presented at many international or world conferences,mostly abroad, and have been the focus of interest of many industrial companies.) Long-term management and coordination of scientific-research initiatives/teams also on an international basis (supported by CZ, EU and USA).
• author or co-author of 3 tried technologies
• Dynamic model of technology operation for concasting of billets
• Dynamic model of technology operation for concasting of slabs
• Numerical optpimization of cooling of heavy cast iron casting

University activities

• 1997-today,member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Metallurgy and Material Engineering (FMME), VŠB, Technical University (TU) Ostrava

• 1996-today,member of the Environmental Engineering Branch Board, FME-BUT Brno

• 1997-today member of scientific Board of the FMME- VŠB - TU Ostrava

• 1997-today,member of the Board for Doctoral Studies, branch Thermal Engineering in Industry, FMME, VŠB-TU Ostrava
• 1997-today,member of the Thermomechanics and Liquid Mechanics Branch Board, FME, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
• 1997-2002, member of the Applied Mechanics Branch Board, FME, TU in Liberec
• 11 times opponent of doctoral dissertations
• 7 times opponent of habilitation dissertations
• 14 times member of the Board for Habilitation and Nomination of Professors, FME, TU in Liberec, FME-TU Ostrava, FMME-TU Ostrava, FME-ČVUT Praha, FME-TU in Košice (Slovak Republic)

Non-University activities

• 2 times co-investigator of EUREKA projects, 2 times principal investigator of COST projects, 8 times principal or co-invetigator of the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), 1 times co-investigator of MPO project (Czech Ministry of Industry and trade), 3 times of KONTAKT projects (Czech-Slovenia cooperation)
• Principle investigator in 15 projects for various ministries and the Academy of Sciences and in 22 projects focusing on technical development in large industrial companies
• Author of 125 research reports
• Author and co-author of 810 articles for journals and conference proceedings (101 of which were published abroad)
• 133 lectures at conferences, symposia and congresses (85 of which were in 23 countries).
• Co-author of 1 patent. from 2006 5 papers in impact Journals,26 papers in non-impact journals, 10 papers in czech reviewed journals, 6 capters in scientific books, 78 papers in conference proceedings.
• Reviewer of 2 books, 35 reviews of specialist articles in Czech and foreign journals, 25  reviews of research projects for the Czech GACR and Slovak Science Foundations VEGA, 5 reviews of projects organised by the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade,
• Member of the Czech Foundry Society, member of ASME and TMS
• member of the Editorial board for Hutnicke listy 

Prizing by scientific community

• 20 articles requested for translation by the British Industrial and Scientific International (BISI) translation service
• 82 abstracts for the American Metals Abstracts journal
• 19 abstracts for the British Steel Castings Abstracts journal
• 56 randomly discovered citations in local and international journals, conference proceedings, bulletins, scientific doctoral dissertations
• Entry in the Czech Kdo je kdo (Who Is Who) in the Czech Republic (1st Edition 1991/92, 2nd Edition 1994/95, 3rd Edition 1998, 4th Edition 2002, 5th Edition 2005)
• Entry in the American Who Is Who (6th Edition, 2002/03), Who Is Who in the World 2003 (20th Edition), Who Is Who in the World 2004 (21st Edition)
• Golden medal of FMMI-VSB-TU Ostrava (cooperation in pedagogical and scientific-research branch 

Projects

• GA106/93/0440 Thermokinetics of technological processes, principal investigator, 1993 - 1995
• Thermokinetics of Technology programu U.S.- Czechoslovak Science and Technology Program No. 93006, principal investigator, 1995-1998
• GA106/98/0296 Optimization of slab continuous casting with use of numerical model, co-investigator, 1998 - 2000
• EUREKA No. 1867 CONMOD Optimization of Quality of Continiuously Cast Billets Required for Subsequent Technological Processing, principal investigator, 1998 - 2001
• GA106/99/0728 The optimization of utility properties of corundo-baddeleyit materials (EUCOR) and the technology of its casting, principal investigator, 1999 - 2001
• KONTAKT ME 253/1998 Metallurgical aspects and mathematical modelling in the continuous casting of steel, principal investigator, 1998-1999
• COST OC P3.20 Numerical simulation of physical phenomena of concasting, principal investigator, 1998-2001
• GA 106/01/1164 Optimization of properties and production technology of heavy ductile-cast iron castings, principal investigator, 2001-03
• COST OC 526.10 APOMAT Optimization of Casting of Corundobaddeleyit Material EUCOR. principal investigator, 2000-05
• GA 106/01/1464 Complete optimization of technology for concasting of steels, including special steels, principal investigator, 2001-03
• KONTAKT 015/2001 Optimization of technology for concasting of steels, including special steels, principal investigator, 2001-02
• EUREKA 2716 COOP Creation of Set of Models For Prediction of Technological Parameters And Thermal Processes For Enhancement of TQM System, co- investigator, 2002 - 2005
• KONTAKT No. 23/2003 Optimization of technology of material EUCOR,principal investigator, 2003-04
• GA106/04/1334, Optimization of technological parameters of the gravity-cast rolls for rolling rails, principal ivestigator, 2004 - 2006
• MPO - FI-IM/021, Research, development and field application of a dynamic model for the control of technology of continuous billet caster, co-investigator, 2004 - 2006
• KONTAKT No. 14/2005 Optimization of technological parameters of the gravity-cast rolls for rolling rails, principal ivestigator, 2005-06 
• GA 106/08/0606 Modelling of heat and mass transfer in large systems of massive metal materials during solidification, principal ivestigator, 2008-11 
• GA 106/09/0940 Mathematical & stochastic modelling of the concasting of rectangular profile steels blanks, member of a team, 2009-11 GAP107/11/1566 Analysis of influence of metallurgical-material and technology parameters of concast steel blanks on their quality and process stability, 2011-13

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