Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
1991 Diplom in mathematics (Mgr.), University of P.J.Safarik, Kosice, Slovak Rep.
1994 PhD in mathematics (Dr.), Charles University Prague, Czech Rep., Dissertation: Numerical Solution of Compressible Flow
1999 Habilitation (Doc.), Institute of mathematics, Technical University of Brno
2002 Professorship (C3 Prof.), Institut für Numerische Simulation, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
2008-09 Offers:
2008 Ruf auf W2 Professur für Numerik partieller Differentialgleichungen an der TU-München (abgelehnt)
2009 Ruf auf W3 Professur für Numerische Analysis, Numerik partieller Differentialgleichungen an der Universität Oldenburg (abgelehnt)
2009 Ruf auf W3 Professur für Angewandte Mathematik (Numerische Mathematik) an der Universität Mainz (angenommen)
since March 2010 full Professor for Numerical Mathematics, University of Mainz
Awards and Fellowships
Prize of Prof. Ivo Babuska (for dissertation), Charles University Prague, 1995
DAAD Postdoctorade Fellowship at the University of Magdeburg 1995
Volkswagen Stiftung Grant at the Technical University Brno, 2001
Junior Prize of the Czech Learned Society, 2002
Visiting Positions and Collaborations
Visiting professorship at the Center for Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, March-May, 2006, supported by the University of Maryland and by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Invited lectures at: Algoritmy (Conference for Scientific Computing), Slovakia, September 2002 Oberwolfach Workshop, Germany; April,2004 American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto; April 2005 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Juni-Juli, 2005 Capital Normal University Beijing, August-September, 2005 Tulane University,New Orleans, USA April, 2006 North Carolina University, USA April, 2006, 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, July 2006 14th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Minisymposium on Flow of Biological and Complex Fluids, Santa Fe, March 2007 15th International Scientific Conference on Mathematical Methods in Economics and Industry, Herlany, Slovakia, June 2007, Minisymposium on Biofluids and Coupled Problems in Biomechanics, ECCOMAS 2008 , Nonlinear PDE , Praha December 2009, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, July 2010
Sophia Kowalewskaja Guest Professorship, Universität Kaiserslautern, April - September 2002.
Courant Institute, New York University, invited lecture at the conference Nonlinear Analysis, June 2000.
Centre International de Recontres Mathematiques, Marseille, invited lecture at the First French-Czech conference on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, March 2000.
Edmund Landau Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis, Jerusalem, Israel, visiting scientist, funded by the GIF foundation, collaboration with Jienquan Li, March 2000.
Mathematical Institute, University of Lisbon, collaboration with S. Matusu-Necasova, invited lecture at the conference Navier-Stokes equations and related problems, funded by the AMIF, June 1999.
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK, scientific collaboration with K.W. Morton funded by the DFG agency VW and partially by the AMIF, frequent visits 1996 - 2002.
Institut für Analysis und Numerik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, frequent long term stays, funded by the DFG agency VW, collaboration with G.Warnecke, 1996-2001.
Institut für Analysis und Numerik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, postdoctoral stay, collaboration with G.Warnecke, funded by the DAAD, 1995.
Mathematisches Institut A, Universität Stuttgart, visiting scientist, collaboration with J.Felcman, G. Warnekce and W.L.Wendland, Feb.- Apr.1993.