Geotechnical engineering

Short vita

Career and professional milestones:

• Since 07/2004 – University professor, Head of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, TU Dresden
• 02/2004 – 06/2004 – Acting Chair, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, TU Dresden
• November 2003 – Habilitation: Role of material laws in the numerical simulation of geotechnical problems
• February 2002 – January 2004 – Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering and Tunnelling (Austria)
• 10/1998 – 12/2002 – Lecturer (part-time), Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
• 09/1998 – 02/2004 – Research assistant, Institute for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences (Deputy Director 2000–2002)
• 05/1997 – Doctorate: Hypoplasticity and granulometry of simple grain structures, University of Karlsruhe
• 1994 – 1998 – Research assistant, Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics, University of Karlsruhe
• 1989–1993 – Research assistant, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 1984–1989 – Studied civil engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, thesis: Mechanical behaviour of fly ash in triaxial testing