Ing. Václav Vinš, Ph.D.

Education
2010: Ph.D. at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at CTU in Prague, program: Mathematical and Physical Engineering
2005: Ing. at CTU in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics

Working experience
2019 till now: Vice Director for R&D at the Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS (IT CAS)
2017 – 2018: specialist in Technical development at Škoda Auto a.s., Development of engine cooling
2013 – 2014: external researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2008 till now: researcher at IT CAS
2006 – 2008: part time job at IT CAS
2001 – 2005: assistant in research at the Department of physics at CTU in Prague

Stays abroad
2022 till now: Mercator Fellow on DFG project no. 496428688, Germany (approx. 1 month/year)
2011: Young Scientist IAPWS Project - Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (6 months)
2005 – 2009: cooperation with PH department at CERN laboratory, Switzerland (approx. 1 month/year)
2005: Technical Student Program at CERN – TS department (10 months)
2003: Summer Student Program at CERN – PH department (2 months)
2002: study at the Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden) organized by Erasmus/Socrates program (5 months)

Awards
2019: IAPWS Helmholtz Award

Scientific community membership
IAPWS - working groups for Thermophysical Properties of Water and Steam and Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Systems
EERA JP CCS - representative of IT CAS in European Energy Research Alliance – Joint Program on Carbon Capture and Storage
CO2CZ - representative of IT CAS in CO2 Czech Solution Group, z.s.

Grants