Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• In 1981, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Brno, specialization Automated control systems of engineering processes. After a one-year job at the Research Institute of Energetic Devices, he started his internal postgraduate studies at the Department of Thermodynamics and Nuclear Energy of the Faculty Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Brno. Since 1983, he was employed at the FME TU Brno as a specialized assistant. He finished his postgraduate course by defending his dissertation work, Applying the cubic spline method for solving the direct or inverse heat transfer tasks. In 1992, he was awarded the scientific certificate IIa. Since 1994, he has been in a position of a research and development worker in the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow laboratory of the Institute of Aerospace Engineering of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 1995, he finished his senior lectureship and was awarded the title associate professor. Professional attention, during the last five years, on new methods of inverse task solving and experimental research of cooling with application, especially, for rolling and continuous casting.
• Author of over hundred papers in journals and at conferences (full list of publications can be found at www.heatlab.cz).
• During the last five years, he was responsible for dealing with research projects for domestic and foreign industrial companies of a financial value of 800.000 €.
• He was coordinator of 8 academic projects (e.g. supported by the Czech Grant Agency and COST) in the past ten years.