President Petr Pavel appointed new professors on the proposals of the scientific and artistic councils of universities. He handed over the appointment decrees to them on Tuesday, 10 December 2024 in the Karolinum in Prague. The Faculty of Civil Engineering of Brno University of Technology has two new professors - Pavel Rovnanik and Pavel Schmid. The other professors appointed were Jan Hajný and Karel Katovský from the FEC of BUT, Zdeněk Jegla from the FSI of BUT and Miroslav Kolíbal from the FSI of BUT and CEITEC of BUT.

Pavel Rovnaník focuses on research in the field of alkali-activated materials, geopolymers, degradation of building materials and their use in smart structures. Since 2004, he has been working at FAST BUT, where he is the supervisor of five courses and the author of several innovative teaching materials. His publishing activities include dozens of technical articles, book chapters and software tools. He has been the principal investigator of four GACR projects and has collaborated on a number of other research activities.

Pavel Schmid is an expert in diagnostics and evaluation of building structures, experimental analysis of their resistance and modelling of degradation processes. Since 1996, he has been working at FAST BUT, where he has been teaching, supervising theses and developing study programmes. He is the supervisor of three courses and the author of new teaching methods. He is actively involved in basic and contract research, including cooperation with institutions such as the State Institute of Radiation Protection.

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