Abstract: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) becomes a technique that is nowadays utilized not only in Research labs but also finds an increasing number of industrial applications. In this talk we will introduce the research activities realized by the research group Materials Characterization and Advanced Coatings. More details will be given about LIBS, we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this technique together with some data processing and data mining techniques and selected industrial applications.

Bio: Jozef Kaiser received hes Ph.D. and MSc. From Brno University of Technology at 2001 and 1997, respectively. From 2013 he is a full professor at Brno University of Technology. He published more than 160 scientific papers that are more than 1800 times cited. Prof. Kaiser has over 20 years of work experience and scientific collaboration with a variety of world class laboratories, such as Synchrotron Elettra, Trieste, Italy; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang, China. As a Ph.D. student in the team of prof. Reale, University of L’Aquila, Italy he participated on the development of 46.9 nm, capillary-discharge pumped, soft X-ray laser that was put in operation in 2002, as a second worldwide. At Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of BUT and later on at CEITEC BUT he founded and lead a research team dedicated to research of Laser spectroscopy, more specifically to basic research and application of methods LIBS, rLIBS, stand-off LIBS, DP LIBS, LIBS + LIFS. In 2011 in cooperation of Elettra Synchrotron in Trieste, Italy he established a research group at CEITEC BUT with a main research topic connected to X-ray microradiography and micro and nano computed tomography (CT). Since this group is internationally recognized and addresses common research projects with laboratories e.g. from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, or Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. Since 2013 he is leading the Materials Characterization and Advanced Coatings research group, which is one of the main performing research groups at CEITEC BUT.

Between 2011 and 2015 he was the member of the evaluation panel 108 (Material Sciences and Engineering) of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and between 2010 and 2015 he served as a member of the main committee of Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society.  From 2014 up to 2016 he was the member of the Committee for science, research and innovation of the Czech-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.