Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 1978, Faculty of Science, UJEP Brno, branch Physics
• 1981, RNDr., Faculty of Science, UJEP Brno, branch Solid state physics
• 1993, CSc., Faculty of Civil Engineering, BUT, branch Physics of condensed matter
• 2000, doc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, BUT, branch Applied physics
• 2006, prof., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, BUT, branch Applied physics

Career overview

• 1978-1980, Lecturer, Department of Physics, FME, Brno UT
• 1980-1999, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME, Brno UT
• 2000-2005, Associate Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME, Brno UT
• 2006-to time, Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, FME, Brno UT
• 2012-to time, Senior Researcher, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno UT

Scientific activities

Physics and micromechanics of materials: modelling micromechanisms of fracture, computation of mechanical properties of crystals based on empirical interatomic potentials and electronic structure, applied stochastic geometry.

Non-University activities

• Guest editor of impacted scientific journals Materials Science Forum (2007), Engineering Failure Analysis (2009), Key Engineering Materials (2010, 2013), Solid State Phenomena (2016), Procedia Structural Integrity (2019)
• Reviewer of papers in many impacted scientific journals (Fat. Fract. Engng. Mater. Strucures, Engng. Fract. Mechanics, Mater. Sci. Forum, Mater. Research, Czech. J. Physics, Metall. Materials, Comp. Mater. Science, Strain, Int. J. Fracture)
• 1998 till now, member of the Executive committee of Czech Society for New Materials and Technologies, currently vicepresident
• 2005 - 2016, member of the editorial board of the journal Engineering Mechanics
• 2011 - 2015, member of evaluating panel 204 of Czech Science Foundation
• 2017 till now, evaluator of National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education

Prizing by scientific community

• 1999, award, European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)
• 2010 Silver Medal, Brno University ogf Technology
• 2014 Annual award of the CSNMT
• More than 350 citations to published papers.

Projects

• Current projects:
  • 17-18566S (CSF, researcher)
• Significant projects in the past (brief list):
  • 1x COST (OC 517.30D, co-researcher)
  • 7x CSF (main researcher, co-researcher)
  • 2x Research plan of Ministry of Education (D1)
  • 1x INFRA (LB98269, researcher)

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

314

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

Sum of other citations (without self-citations)