date and place of birth

1973, Czech Republic

  education

1992-1997 : M.S.: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University (MFF UK), Prague, Computational Mathematics - Numerical Software

1997-2002 : Ph.D.: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University (MFF UK), Prague, Scientific Computations

  employment

2000 - present: Institut of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

2002 - 2007: Technical University of Berlin, Germany

  participation on grants

Project M100300901, Towards deeper understanding of Krylov subspace methods, March 2009 - March 2012 (principal investigator).

GAAV Grant IAA100300802: Theory of Krylov subspace methods and its relationship to other mathematical disciplines, 2008-2012.

Program Information Society Project 1ET400300415: Modeling and Simulation of Complex Technical Problems, 2004-2008.

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, head Jörg Liesen, 2002-2007.

Grant KJB1030306, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Krylov subspace methods - mathematical theory, stopping criteria and behaviour in finite precision arithmetic, 2003-2005.

  stays abroad

TU-Dresden (November 1999),

Universität Hamburg (February 2000 - July 2000)

TU-Berlin (November 2002 - March 2007)

  awards

Otto Wichterle Prize for young scientists, 2007, awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, May 2007.

I Babuska Prize (3rd place) for the best work in computer science submitted by students and young scientists, 2002, for the work On some open questions in Krylov subspace methods, awarded by the Czech Association for Mechanics and the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, December 2002.

  collaborators

Zdeněk Strakoš, Jörg Liesen, Vance Faber