Jan Sladek#
| Membership Number: | 4174 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVAKIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://nic.savba.sk/sav/ustarch/Mech/sladek.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 – present, Head, Department of Mechanics, Institute for Construction and Architecture, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2006 - 2016, Professor of Applied Mechanics, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2007 - 2008, Visiting Professor (6 months), University of London, Queen Mary College, U.K.
- 2006 - 2007, DFG-sponsored research stay (1-year), University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
- 1998, Research Scientist (3 months), University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- 1997 - 2005, Director, Institute for Construction and Architecture, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 1993 – 1997, Deputy Director, Institute for Construction and Architecture, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 1992, Research Scientist (6 months), Shinshu University, Japan
- 1988, Visiting Professor (6 months), Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
- 1981 - 1993, Research Scientist, Institute for Construction and Architecture, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia
Fields of Scholarship
- Fracture mechanics
- Computational mechanics
- Boundary element methods (BEM)
- Modelling of smart materials and functionally graded materials
- Meshless methods
- Numerical methods in fracture mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Award for a highly cited researcher, Slovak Literary Fund
- 2010 Eric Reissner Medal awarded by the ICCES
- 1985, 2003, Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
- 1996 - 2010 President, Slovak Society for Mechanics
- 2002 Member, Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
