Academic Qualifications:

1978-1983 Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Ing. (equivalent to MSc.) in Civil Engineering, thesis "Measurements of Moisture Transport in Porous Materials"

1983-1988 Department of Physics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, CSc. (equivalent to PhD) in Physics of Condensed Matter, thesis "Application of the Stefan Problem to Moisture Transport in Porous Media"

1994       Czech Technical University in Prague, habilitation as Associate Professor of Physics, habilitation thesis "Second-Order Influences on the Moisture Transport in Porous Materials"

1995       The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, DrSc. (roughly equivalent to DSc.) in Nonmetallic-Materials Science, thesis "Modeling of Physical Processes with Phase Change"

1998       Czech Technical University in Prague, Professor of Physics

Employment:

1983-1991 Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague

1991-1992 Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of Rice University at Houston

1992-1994 Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague

1994-1999 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague

1999-2006 Professor at the Department of Structural Mechanics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague 

2007- Head of the Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague 

Research Activity:

Main topic: Experimental and theoretical analysis of heat, moisture and chemical compounds transport in porous materials

Experimental: field variables of heat, moisture and salt transport - temperature, moisture content, relative humidity, capillary pressure, salt concentration (laboratory conditions, semi-scale conditions, field conditions), thermal, hygric and salt related properties - thermal conductivity and specific heat in wide temperature  and moisture ranges (up to 1700⁰C), thermal and hygric expansion in wide temperature and moisture ranges, moisture diffusivity, water vapor diffusion permeability, hydraulic conductivity, sorption isotherms, water retention curves, thermodiffusion, mobility, salt diffusion coefficients, ion binding isotherms

Theoretical: transport phenomena in porous materials – temperature, moisture and salt concentration fields, second-order effects on moisture transport, inverse problems of heat conduction, moisture conduction and salt diffusion

Research Projects

Within the last ten years principal investigator of 2 projects of the EU 5^th Framework Program, 1 project of the EU 6^th Framework Program, 15 projects of the Czech Science Foundation (CSF), 1 project of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 4 projects of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, 11 bilateral international projects (Germany, Japan, Greece, Slovakia, Poland), co-investigator of 11 CSF projects, 1 EU PECO project, 7 bilateral international projects (Germany, Poland, Slovakia)

Publications

3 books in English, 2 books in Czech, 83 papers in international journals, 7 papers in German journals, 59 papers in Czech, Slovak and Polish journals in English, 91 papers in Czech and Slovak journals in Czech, 225 contributions in Proceedings books of international conferences, 290 contributions in Proceedings books of Czech and Slovak conferences in English, 124 contributions in Proceedings books of Czech and Slovak conferences in Czech

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