born on September 1st, 1974 in Rokycany, Czech Republic, Czech citizen, married, two sons
academic degrees:
2025 - DSc. degree (research professor) in Mathematical Analysis and Related Fields, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, June 16th (defended)
2011 - Docent degree (second doctorate) in Applied Mathematics 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