Advancing Knowledge in Decision Sciences

Doc. Ing. Jan Valdman, Dr.

Position: research fellow

Web: http://sites.google.com/site/janvaldman/

Research interests: nonlinear mechanics, a posteriori error analysis, optimization of elastic structures, semidefinite programming, equations with equilibrium constraints, efficient implementation of finite element methods, and vectorization in MATLAB.

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Academic Degrees

2011 – Associate Professor degree (second doctorate) at VSB-TU Ostrava
2002 – Dr.rer.nat. degree in Applied Mathematics at CAU Kiel, supervisors: Carsten Carstensen, Martin Brokate
1997 – Master Class Certificate in Numerical Analysis and Supercomputing at Utrecht University, supervisor: Henk van der Vorst
1997 – Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mathematical Modeling and Computational Mechanics at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, supervisors: Pavel Drábek, Stanislav Míka

Current Positions

Since February 2012 – Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
Since April 2012 – Research Fellow at the Department of Decision-Making Theory, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague

Previous Professional Experience

08/2011 – 06/2014: Research Leader at SPOMECH, IT4Innovations, VSB-TU Ostrava
02/2011 – 08/2011: Postdoc at MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
11/2009 – 12/2011: Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland (on leave since January 2011)
09/2008 – 08/2009: Postdoc at the Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen
01/2003 – 08/2008: Postdoc at SFB013, Project F1306, Johannes Kepler University Linz
01/2002 – 12/2002: Software Developer at Ricardo Consulting Engineers, Prague

Short Scientific Visits

University of Texas at Austin (1 month in 2011)

Software

All my codes are available at Matlab Central.