Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 2005, MSc., Institute of Machine Design, Mechanical Engineering Design - Computer Aided Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engeneering, Brno University of Technology.
• 2009, Ph.D., Institute of Machine Design, Design and Process Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engeneering, Brno University of Technology.
• 2016, doc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, programme Machine Design and Process Engineering

Career overview

• since 2016, associate professor, dept. of Tribology, Institute of Machine and Industrial Design, FME, BUT
• since 2009, assistant professor, Institute of Machine and Industrial Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology.
• since 2011, junior researcher, Netme Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology.

Pedagogic activities

• Lectures in BSc study programme: CAD (FSI-3CD), Machine Design Fundamentals (FSI-1K), Design and CAD (FSI-4KC).
• Lectures in MSc study programme: Research Project and its Management (FSI-9VPR).
• Supervision of MSc and BSc thesis.

Scientific activities

• Experimental study of lubrication films under non-steady state operating conditions.
• Optical methods for lubricant films study.
• Elastohydrodynamic and mixed lubrication.
• Very thin lubricant films.

Academic internships abroad

2015 - University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy and Materials, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Non-University activities

• since 2019, member of evaluation panel of technical sciences of Czech Science Foundation
• since 2019 member of editorial board of journal Applied Engineering Letters (ISSN 2466-4677)
• since 2022 member of editorial board of journal Tribology and Materials Letters (ISSN 2812-9717)

Keywords

Tribology

Prizing by scientific community

• 2021, BUT Commemorative Medal - award for significant contribution to the development of teaching in the field of Machine design fundamentals at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology.

Projects

• An experimental study of lubrication films under non-steady state operating conditions (BD 136 3032), 2006. 
• Experimental study of lubrication film formation under starved conditions (Project GAČR 13-30879P), 2013-2015.

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

433

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

276

Sum of other citations (without self-citations)

230