born on September 1st, 1974 in Rokycany, Czech Republic, Czech citizen, married, two sons
academic degrees:
2026 - Prof. in Applied Mathematics at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
2025 - DSc. degree (research professor) in Mathematical Analysis and Related Fields, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
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 - Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mathematical Modeling and Computational Mechanics at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen,
supervisors Pavel Drábek and Stanislav Míka
1997 - Master Class certificate in Numerical analysis and Supercomputing at Utrecht University,
supervisor Henk van der Vorst
current affiliations(s):
since Sep 2022 - Associate professor at Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague
since Feb 2012 - Associate professor at Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice
since Apr 2012 - Senior 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 longer that one week:
Nazarbyev University at Astana (3 weeks in 2026)
University of Texas at Austin (1 month in 2011)
SINTEF Oslo (3 weeks in 2009)
The Euler International Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg (2 weeks in 2006)
research interests:
finite element methods, nonlinear mechanics, a posteriori error analysis, scientific computing, Matlab vectorization