Born on November 27, 1965 in Prague

1983 - 1988: Study of the Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

1989 - 1993: PhD in the Solid State Physics, Charles University Prague

1993 - 1999: Head of the X-ray laboratory at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Charles University Prague

1999: Habilitation in the Solid State Physics, Charles University Prague

2000 - 2002: Associated Professor (Univ.-Doz.) at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Charles University Prague

Since 2003: Full Professor, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2005: Director of the Institute of Materials Science, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2024: Member of the Review Board "Materials Science", DFG

Since 2022: Dean of Studies of the study course Advanced Materials Analysis, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2022: Member of the Editorial Board, Scientific Reports

Since 2020: Member of the International Advisory Board of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Since 2017: Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Materials Growth & Measurement Laboratory, Charles University Prague

2017 – 2023: Member of the board of directors of the Saxon Alliance for Material- and Resource-Efficient Technologies (AMARETO)

2016 – 2022: Dean of the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

2016 – 2020: Director-at-Large, International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)

2010 – 2011: Interim head of the Institute for Electronic and Sensor Materials, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2009: Member of the EPDIC Committee

2009 – 2014: Coordinator and chairman of the Saxon Centre of Excellence “Functional structure design of new high performance materials via atomic design and defect engineering (ADDE)”

2005 – 2014: Member of the Commission on Powder Diffraction, International Union of Crystallography

2005 – 2007: Dean of Studies of the study course Materials Science and Materials Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Since 2004: Member of the German Crystallographic Society

2001 – 2008: European Co-chair of the International Centre for Diffraction Data

Since 1999: Member of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)

1996 – 2002: Member of the Scientific board of the Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association

Since 1988: Member of the Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association

1990 (3 months): Stay at the Physical Metallurgy group (Prof. P. Ettmayer), Vienna University of Technology

1992 (4 months): Stay at the Physical Metallurgy group (Prof. P. Ettmayer), Vienna University of Technology

1993 (2 months): Stay at the Laboratory of Crystallography (Prof. H. Schenk), University of Amsterdam

1994 (2 months): Stay at the Laboratory of Crystallography (Prof. H. Schenk), University of Amsterdam

1995 (3 months): Stay at the Physical Metallurgy group (Prof. P. Ettmayer), Vienna University of Technology

1997 – 1998 (12 months): Lise Meitner Fellowship, Vienna University of Technology, Physical Metallurgy, host Prof. P. Ettmayer

2001 – 2002 (12 months): Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, TU Darmstadt, Structure Research, host Prof. H. Fueß

1993: Milan Odehnal Award (Czech Society for Mathematics and Physics)

2000: EDPIC Award (Award of the European Powder Diffraction Conference)

2003: ICDD Fellow (Award of the International Centre for Diffraction Data), USA

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