Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 2023, Full Prof., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, branch Applied Mechanics 
• 2009, Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, branch Applied Mechanics 
• 2002, Ph.D., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, branch Engineering Mechanics
• 1999, Ing., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, branch Engineering Mechanics

Career overview

• 2022 - to date, Head of department of Experimental Studies and Modelling of Structure
• 2017 - 2025 Member of Academic Council Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, responsible for negotiations with subsidy providers and cooperation with industry
• 2016 - to date, director of research infrastructure IPMINFRA
• 2010 - to date, CEITEC IPM organisation unit director
• 2009 - 2010, project manager CEITEC IPM
• 2009 - to date, associate professor, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, FEM BUT Brno, Deptartment of Statics and Strength of Material
• 2007 - 2009, part-time senior lecturer, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, FEM BUT Brno, Deptartment of Statics and Strength of Material
• 2003 - to date, research fellow, group of high cycle fatigue, Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• 2003 - 2006, external lecturer, FEM BUT Brno
• 2002 - 2003, post-doc, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Equipe Mécanique et Matériaux, FRANCE
• 2002, research fellow, Institute of Physics of Materials (IPM), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• 1997 - 1999, designer, Strejček spol. s r.o.

Pedagogic activities

• Advanced Fracture Mechanics (PhD Programme CEITEC VUT, in Czech and English)
• Statics
• Strength of Materials I
• Strength of Materials II
• Limit States of Materials
• Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics

Scientific activities

• fatigue of materials and determination of lifetime
• fracture mechanics
• fracture mechanics of bi-material interface
• general singular stress concentrators

Author or co-author more than 103 papers published in reviewed journals covered by SCOPUS (85 covered by WoS) and more than 200 papers published in conference proceedings.

Non-University activities

2021 - present, Chairman of Supervisory Board, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences

2021 - present, Chairman of Supervisory Board, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

2019 - present, member of working groups in the field of R&D&I at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Regional Development

2019 - present, Chairman of Supervisory Board, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences

2019 - present, Chairman of Supervisory Board, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences 

2017 - present, member of Supervisory Board, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences 

2017 - present, member of the Institution Board, Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences 

2016 - present, member of Academy Assembly, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2012 - present, member of European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)

2013 - 2015 and 2015 - 2017 member of evaluation panel of the Czech Science Foundation

Prizing by scientific community

• 2002, Rector’s award, BUT

Projects

• GA AV ČR KJB200410803, Generalization of linear elastic fracture mechanics to crack propagation problems in non-homogenous materials (2008 - 2010, investigator)
• GA ČR 106/08/1409, Role of structure of crosslinked polymer matrix in particulate composites. Multiscale modeling and experimental verification (2008 - 2010, co-investigator)
• GA ČR 106/04/P084, Influence of interface between two materials on fatigue crack propagation (2004 - 2006, investigator)
• CZ.1.07/2.4.00/17.0006, Building up Cooperation in R&D with the Research and Industrial Partners (R4I)(2011-2014, co-investigator)
• CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology (2011-2015, co-investigator)
• Member of research team of more than 30 projects of the Czech Science Foundation, Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and international projects EURATOM (France) and DAAD (Germany)
• Cooperation with Polymer Competence Center Leoben (Austria) and Montanuniversität, Leoben

Sum of citations (without self-citations) indexed within SCOPUS

647

Sum of citations (without self-citations) indexed within ISI Web of Knowledge

594