prof. Mgr. Tomáš Kruml, CSc.

In 1990, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Sciences of Masaryk University in Brno, in the field of solid state physics. After his doctoral studies at the Institute of Physics of Materials, ASCR, v. v. i. he worked for 6 years at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne as a first assistant at the Physics departement. In 2003, he was appointed a Professor at the Ecole des Mines in Nancy. In 2005 with the support of the Fellowship J. E. Purkyně, he returned to the Institute of the Physics of Materials of the ASCR, v. v. i., where he became the head of the Departement of Mechanical Properties. He specialises in research of the mechanisms of plastic deformation, the mechanical testing of materials and electron microscopy.

 

He is the author or co-author of approximately 100 scientific works with 500 citations (H-index = 12). He is active pedagogically as a lecturer (the Brno University of Technology) and is a supervisor of MA and PhD theses at the Brno University of Technology and at Masaryk University in Brno.