Dr. Vratislav Kafka passed away

Dr. Kafka worked for the ITAM AS CR since 1953, when he earned MSc from Czech Technical University in Prague. During first years at ITAM he completed the thesis "Theory of elasticity of multilayered continua" (1957) under supervision of Prof. V. Tesař.  In 1981 he earned the highest degree "Doctor of Sciences" from the Czech Academy of Sciences for his thesis "The general theory of elastoplastic deformation of quasihomogeneous material based on analysis of internal microscopic stress".

His work was devoted to material research, namely in applications in biomechanics.

Vratislav Kafka was awarded by the Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences (1976 and 1992), Silver medal of St. Bechyně for contribution to technical sicences (1989), Medal of the Czech Socienty for Mechanics "For contribution to mechanics" and by the The Ernst Mach Honorary Medal for Merit in the Physical Sciences (2009).

The selected bibliography of dr. Kafka is available at Scopus, or  at Web of Science (Publons).