doc. RNDr. Pavel Krejčí, CSc.

After three years at the French high school Lycée A. Daudet in Nîmes he graduated at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague (1973-1978). His first job in 1978-1979 was computer programmer at the Poldi Steel Company in Kladno. In 1979 he obtained a researcher position at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, and since 1981 he has been working at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czechoslovak (Czech) Academy of Sciences in Prague, where he got his PhD degree in 1984. Between 2001 and 2003 he served as head of the Department of Evolution Equations, and for the period 2009-2014 he was appointed Director of the Institute of Mathematics.

The list of his long-term teaching and research stays at foreign institutions includes USA, France, Italy, Germany, or for example China. In the periods 1997-2000 and 2004-2009 he was employed as researcher at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin and, from 2005, as deputy head of the Research group „Thermodynamic modeling and phase transition analysis“. From 2017 to 2021 he was member of the Academy Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences responsible for cooperation between the Academy institutes and universities in PhD programs. Starting from 2015, he has been employed as Deputy Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he got his habilitation in 2019. He is member of the Council for Science of the Faculty of Nuclear Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, and, from 2021, also of the Council for Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

His research interests include partial differential equations, non-smooth evolution problems, variational inequalities, hysteresis, and applications of methods of mathematical Analysis in modeling physical processes. He is author/coauthor of two monographs, 123 research papers, 35 contributions to conference volumes, and one German patent. His publications have been cited more than 1800 times without self-citations (WoS). In the period 2002-2009 he was Editor-in-Chief of the periodical „Applications of Mathematics“. He obtained in 2001 the Award of the Minister of Education for Achievements in Research, in 2014 the Bernard Bolzano Prize for Merits in Mathematical Sciences, and in 2023 the Professor Bažant Prize for Research Achievements in Technology.