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Karel Matouš
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Professor of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering
Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering  Office Mail
Address :Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame 367 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering Notre Dame, IN 46556-5637 Phone: +1-574-631-1376 Fax: +1-574-631-8341 E-mail: kmatous@nd.edu |
Dr. Matouš is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Dr. Matouš served as the Director of the Center for Shock Wave-processing of Advanced Reactive Materials (C-SWARM), which was established as one of the six NNSA Centers of Excellence whose primary focus had been on the emerging field of predictive science. In 2016, he held a visiting professor position at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Dr. Matouš' interests are in predictive computational science and engineering at multiple spatial and temporal scales, including multi-physics interactions, the development of advanced numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing. His research focuses on the interplay between applied mathematics, computer/computational science, and physics/materials science. Moreover, he leads a research program in image-based (data-driven) modeling of heterogeneous systems, focusing on co-designed simulations and experiments based on statistical analysis, computational mathematics, and AI/machine learning. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal and/or conference proceedings articles and abstracts. He is involved in several interdisciplinary research programs with funding from various agencies and private companies. In 2022, Dr. Matouš received the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University of Notre Dame. Moreover, Dr. Matouš received the Rector's Award for the best Ph.D. students from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Several articles from Dr. Matouš' group have been featured on the Web of Science's highly cited list. One of his papers appeared as the cover article in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. He is a member of ASME, SES, USACM, EUROMECH, and IACM. Dr. Matouš is a Fellow of ASME. Dr. Matouš serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Physics and International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering.
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| Date of Birth | : |
June 27, 1974 | |
| Place of Birth | : |
Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic | |
| Citizenship | : |
U.S.
Citizen |
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| Education | |||
| Ph.D. | : : |
Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, Czech
Technical University in Prague School of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Mechanics, 1998-2000 Doctoral thesis title "Analysis and Optimization of Composite Materials and Structures" |
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| M.S. | : : |
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Czech Technical
University in Prague School of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Mechanics, 1992-1998 Master thesis title "Optimization of Composite Beams and Rectangular Laminated Plates, Using Method of Simulated Annealing" |
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| Employment, Experience | |||
| 07/2019 - present |
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Professor or Aerospace
and Mechanical Engineering |
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| 10/2015 - 12/2020 | Director of the Center for Shock-Wave Processing of Advanced Reactive Materials (C-SWARM) | ||
| 07/2014 - 06/2019 |
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College of Engineering Collegiate Associate
Professor of Computational Mechanics
Department of Aerospace
and Mechanical Engineering |
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| 04/2014 - 09/2015 |
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Co-Director of the
Center for Shock-Wave Processing of Advanced
Reactive Materials (C-SWARM), the
lead of the Computational Physics Group and the
Software Architect |
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| 10/2009
- 07/2014 |
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Associate
Professor Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame |
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| 03/2007
- 09/2009 |
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Principal
Research Scientist Computational Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 11/2004 - 09/2009 | : |
Adjunct
Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 09/2003 - 03/2007 | : |
Research
Scientist, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign |
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| 06/2000 - 08/2003 | : |
Post-doctoral
Research Associate Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering |
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| 01/1998 - 05/2000 | : |
Research
Assistant Czech Technical University in Prague Department of Structural Mechanics |
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| 04/1998 - 09/1999 | : |
H
& D Engineering Ltd. Civil and Mechanical Engineer - Statics and Dynamics of Structures and Machines |
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| Highlights, Awards, Honors | |||
| 2022 |
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Rev. Edmund P. Joyce,
C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching |
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| 2019 |
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A
student from my group, Dewen Yushu, won the Robert
J. Melosh Competition in Computational Mechanics
sponsored by the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Duke University. |
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| 2016 |
: |
Visiting Professor at
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics
of Materials, Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands. Received 10,000 Euros research
grant from the 3TU Research Center Fluids &
Solids, and Eindhoven Multiscale Institute (EMI). |
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| 2013 |
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Elected a Fellow of
ASME |
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| 2010 |
: |
Former
student of mine, Mohan Kulkarni (Ph.D. 2009 AE,
UIUC, with Prof. Geubelle as co-advisor), has been
selected as an "honorable mention" for the 2010 Melosh
Competition |
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| 2009 |
: |
An article entitled "Finite element formulation for modeling nonlinear viscoelastic elastomers'' by P. Areias and K. Matous published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering has been featured on ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest articles in October-December 2008 | |
| 2008 |
: |
An
article entitled "Multiscale cohesive failure
modeling of heterogeneous adhesives'' by K. Matous,
M.G. Kulkarni and P.H. Geubelle published in Journal
of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids has been
featured on ScienceDirect Top
25 Hottest articles in April-June 2008 |
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| 2007 |
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A student of mine, Mohan Kulkarni (Ph.D.
candidate in AE, with Prof. Geubelle as co-advisor),
won the student presentation competition in the
material modeling specialty area at the 9th U.S.
National Congress on Computational Mechanics
(USNCCM9) in San Francisco |
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| 1999 | : |
Rector's award for the best Ph.D. students, Czech Technical University in Prague | |
| 1997 | : |
Academician
Z. Bazant's prize, for the outstanding student
researchers School of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague |
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| 1996 | : |
Academician
Z. Bazant's prize, for the outstanding student
researchers School of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague |
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2025 University of Notre
Dame and Prof. Karel Matouš