Prof. Dr. Jan Sladek

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMechanics
KeywordsBoundary Elements, Smart materials, Fracture mechanics, Nano-sized structures, BEM

Current contact address

CountrySlovakia
CityBratislava
InstitutionSlovak Academy of Sciences
InstituteInstitute of Construction and Architecture

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Siegfried SchmauderInstitut für Materialprüfung, Werkstoffkunde und Festigkeitslehre (IMWF), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Sladek is a highly recognised scientist in the international research community of solid mechanics, especially in computational mechanics. He is a leader and one of the pioneers in the systematic and fundamental development of the boundary element method and meshfree methods for engineering applications. In Germany, Prof. Sladek intends to optimize nanoscale structures by advanced continuum models. The molecular dynamics method will be utilized to determine the higher-order elastic and flexoelectric parameters required in constitutive equations.