Prof. Ing. Kamil Wichterle, DrSc.

born Oct. 11, 1941 in Zlín, nationality Czech Republic

-  Ing. - (BS/MS - equivalent) in Chemical Engineering from Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, 1963,

-  CSc (PhD - equivalent) degree in Theory of Chemical Processes from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1968.

-  DrSc degree in Hydrodynamics and Thermomechanics, Czech Technical University Prague, 1997,

-  Associated Professor of chemical engineering, Prague Institute of Chemical technology, 1994,

-  Professor of chemical engineering, Prague Institute of Chemical technology, 1996,

-  Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Sciences, University of Ostrava, 2008.

Professional career:

-  1964-1968: PhD student, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague,

-  1968-1998: Senior research fellow of the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Prague,

-  1993-1997: Associate Professor, Faculty of Metallurgy and Material Engineering, Technical University Ostrava,

-  1997-2013: Head of the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Ostrava.

Stages as an expert: National Patent Development Woodbury (USA), Hydron Europe Farnborough (GB),

Scientific cooperation : ITMO Minsk (USSR), CCLRU Sydney (Australia), Univ. Dortmund (BRD), Univ. München (BRD), CNRS Paris (F).

Languages: Czech / Slovak, fluent in English and Russian; partly: German, French, Latin/Italian.

Research interest:

Chemical engineering of multiphase systems, non-Newtonian liquids, and highly viscous materials, viscometry and rheometry, agitation and mixing processes, heat transfer, electrodiffusion effects, biomechanics and optics. Participated in numerous research, design and development projects for chemical industry (polymerization reactors, fertilizer production, contact lens design and manufacture, oxygen measurement, metallurgy waste recycling). .

Author of about 80 reviewed original scientific papers, 2 monographs, 25 patents.

Member of:

-  Accreditation Board of the Ministry of Education, Committee for Chemistry,

-  Academic Assembly, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,

-  Main Board of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineering,.

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Current address:

VŠB Technical University Ostrava

708 33 Ostrava - Poruba, Czech Republic

((+420) 596994 304

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