The short Curriculum Vitae of Jan Valdman

born on September 1st, 1974 in Rokycany, Czech Republic, Czech citizen, married, two sons


academic degrees:

2011 - Docent degree (second doctorate) at VSB-TU Ostrava

2002 - Dr.rer. nat. degree (doctorate) in Applied Mathematics at CAU Kiel, supervisors Carsten Carstensen and Martin Brokate

1997 - Master Class certificate in Numerical analysis and Supercomputing at Utrecht University, supervisor Henk van der Vorst

1997 - Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mathematical Modeling and Computational Mechanics at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, supervisors Pavel Drábek and Stanislav Míka


current position(s):

since Feb 2012 - Associate professor at Institute of mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice

since Apr 2012 - Research fellow at Department of Decision-Making Theory, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague


previous professional experience:

Aug 2011 - Jun 2014 Research leader at SPOMECH, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VSB-TU Ostrava

Feb 2011 - Aug 2011 Postdoc at MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Lepzig

Nov 2009 - Dec 2011 Associate professor at School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland (after January 2011 on leave)

Sep 2008 - Aug 2009 PostDoc at Department of Mathematics, University Bergen

Jan 2003 - Aug 2008 PostDoc at Specialforschungsbereich SFB013, Project F1306, Johannes Kepler University Linz

Jan 2002 - Dec 2002 Software Developer at Ricardo Consulting Engineers, Prague

shorter scientific stays:

University of Texas at Austin (1 month in 2011), SINTEF Oslo (3 weeks in 2009), The Euler International Mathematical Institute (2 weeks in 2006)


research interests:

nonlinear mechanics, a posteriori error analysis of convex problems, Matlab vectorization


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