prof. Ing. Vít Šmilauer, Ph.D., DSc.

Scientific field: Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering

He graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, program Structural and Transportation Engineering. In 2009-2010 he was a postdoc at Northwestern University, IL, USA.

He is dedicated to multi-level description, modeling and development of cementitious materials, which are the pillars of today's construction industry. He developed methods for scaling the strength of cementitious materials from the submicron level. Based on these, a special road cement was developed for the construction of durable highway infrastructure in the Czech Republic, which fully replaced the previous one. Other applied results include the development of the clinker-free Sorfix binder used in the construction of the primary lining of the D metro tunnel, thermo-mechanical calculation of water cooling of massive concrete elements (Štvanice footbridge in Prague, Kutřín polder on the Krounka river), software development for Holcim / Lafarge companies, and long-term monitoring of temperatures and deformations of specific structures.

At the Czech Technical University, he successfully supervised 6 doctoral students, teaches or taught bachelor's degree subjects (Structural Mechanics, Elasticity and Strength, Dynamics of Building Structures) and master's degree subjects (Multilevel Description of Cement Composites).

In 2011-2020, he served as the representative of the Czech Republic in the industrial-academic consortium Nanocem, and is active in RILEM committees. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Materials, section 'Construction and Building Materials'. He is the author of more than 60 original scientific articles in impact journals, 20 software in RIV, 8 proven technologies and 5 patents. According to the WoS database, his works are cited more than 1 500 times. He was the investigator or co-investigator of more than 10 national and European grants.