doc. Ing. Milan Kouřil, Ph.D.

E-mail: kourilm@vscht.cz
Tel.: +420220444275
Room: A60a

Title: Assistant Professor, Head of Group Corrosion and Corrosion Engineering

Education:
  • 1995-2000: UCT Prague, M. Sc. in Chemical Technology of Metallic and Special Inorganic Materials
  • 2000-2004: UCT Prague, Ph.D. in Physical Metallurgy 

Career:
  • 2004-2007: UCT Prague, Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, Research Fellow
  • since 2007: UCT Prague, Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, Assistant Professor

Specialisation:
  • Basic and applied research on corrosion and corrosion protection
  • Corrosion of buried equipment and cathodic protection in soil
  • Corrosion in the environment of a nuclear waste depository
  • Corrosion of concrete steel reinforcement
  • Localised forms of corrosion
  • Corrosion monitoring
  • Corrosion of metallic historical artefacts

Lectures:
  • Materials Corrosion for Restorers
  • Materials Corrosion
  • Laboratory of Chemistry
  • Metallic Materials Laboratory
  • Technology of Conservation and Restoration Laboratory
  • Conservation and Restoration of Metallic Artefacts Laboratory 

Membership in professional organizations and editorial boards:
  • Czech Association of Corrosion Engineers – Vice President
  • European Federation of Corrosion
  • World Corrosion Organization
  • International Corrosion Council
  • Editorial board of the Corrosion and Protection of Materials magazine 

Research projects:
  • 2025-2027 (TAČR, FW12010283) Vývoj systému pro monitoring koroze pod izolací - CorrSenEx
  • 2021-2034 (ÚJV, 21SMP180) Pilotní korozní experiment v PVP Bukov

Notable magazine contributions:
  1. Reiser, M., Kouřil, M., Forcellese, P., Tiziano B. Application of Resistometric Sensors in Investigation of Zinc, (2025) Buildings 15, art. no. 635.
  2. Popova, K., Prošek, T., Šefl, V., Šedivý, M., Kouřil, M., Reiser, M., Application of flexible resistometric sensors for real-time corrosion monitoring under insulation, (2024) Materials and Corrosion 75 (5), 625 – 635.
  3. Pokorný, P., Kouřil, M., Predicted Corrosion Performance of Organofunctional Silane Coated Steel Reinforcement for Concrete Structures: An Overview, (2024) Buildings 14 (6), art. no. 1756.
  4. Boháčková, T., Kouřil, M., Strachotová, K.C., Kreislová, K., Fialová, P., Švadlena, J., Prošek, T., Color Measurement in the Corrosivity Assessment of Museums, Archives, and Churches, (2023) Materials 16 (1), art. no. 226.
  5. Lovaši, T., Pečinka, V., Ludvík, J., Kubásek, J., Průša, F., Kouřil, M. Corrosion Properties of Boron- and Manganese-Alloyed Stainless Steels as a Material for the Bipolar Plates of PEM Fuel Cells, (2022) Materials 15 (19), art. no. 6557.
  6. Kouřil, M., Boháčková, T., Strachotová, K.C., Švadlena, J., Prošek, T., Kreislová, K., Fialová, P., Lead Corrosion and Corrosivity Classification in Archives, Museums, and Churches, (2022) Materials, 15 (2), art. no. 639.