Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 1996, Mgr., Pedagogical Faculty of Masaryk University, physics and technical education
• 2001, Ph.D., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, specialization: Physical and materials engineering
• 2008, assoc. prof. (doc.), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, specialization: Applied Physics
• 2022, professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, specialization: Applied Physics

Career overview

• 1999 - 2001, teacher and junior assistent at Institute of engineering physics, Faculty of Mechaniccal Engineering, Brno University of Technology
• 2000 - 2001, Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Brno
• 2002 - 2008, teacher and research assistent at Institute of engineering physics, Faculty of Mechaniccal Engineering, Brno University of Technology
• 2008 - 2022, Assoc. Professor at Faculty of Mechaniccal Engineering, Brno University of Technology
• 2022 - present, Full Professor at Faculty of Mechaniccal Engineering, Brno University of Technology

Pedagogic activities

• Physics course I - seminars
• Physics course II - seminars
• Physics (BF) - lectures
• Labs in physics
• preparation of entrance examination tests (physics)
• Structure and properties of modern materials - lectures, seminars
• Prediction of mechanical and magnetic properties of solids from their electronic structure - PhD course
• Selected Chapters in Materials Science - PhD course

Scientific activities

• theory of condensed matter
• computational materials science
• first-principles calculations of electronic structure of solids
• stability of crystals under applied loading
• DFT calculations of vibrational entropy
• generation of machine-learned interatomic potentials
• 2D materials

Prizing by scientific community

reviewer for scientific journals (Phys. Rev. B, J. Phys: Condens. Matter, Phil. Mag. B, Intermetallics, Physica A, Mater. Sci. Forum, J Appl. Phys,....)

Projects

• GA 106/02/D101: Ab initio calculation of elastic properties of FeP ordered system (2002-2004)
• OC148-P19: Twoscale analysis of stress distribution under nanoindentor tip (2006-2009)
• GA 106/09/1524: First-principles study of mechanical properties of ideal metallic fiber nano-composites (2009-2011)
• 8J18AT008: Teory guided design of new superlattice nanocomposites (2018-2019)
• GA20-08130S: Role of the entropy in materials research: Impurity segregation at grain boundaries (2020-2022)

Cooperation on projects:

• GA 17-18566S: Combination of atomistic and higher-order elasticity approaches in fracture nanomechanics (since 2017)
• GA 16-24711S: Structure and properties of selected nanocomposites (since 2016)
• P108/12/0311: Strength, embrittlement and magnetism of clean and impurity-segregated grain boundaries in metallic materials (2012-2015)
• MSM 0021630518 Simulational modeling of mechatronical systems (2005-2009)
• GA106/05/0134 (2005-2007)
• GA106/05/0274 Multiscale approach to relationships between mechanical and microstructural characteristics of materials (2005-2007)
• GA101/05/0320 Solution of general stress concentrators in anisotropic heterogenous media via combination of FEM and continuously distributed dislocation technique (2005-2007)

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

790

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

887

Sum of other citations (without self-citations)