E-mail: lejcekp@vscht.cz
Tel.: +420220444202
Room: A49
ResearchID: G-3516-2014, FZY-4230-2022, DCE-2158-2022, CWU-6380-2022, FEO-8979-2022
Scopus ID: 7005562927
ORCID: 0000-0002-6870-0949
Title:
Professor
Education:
- 1968-1973: UCT Prague, M.Sc. in Technical analytical and physical chemistry
- 1978-1982: Department of Physical metallurgy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno, post-graduate in Physical metallurgy and material threshold states
- 1996: the Czech Academy of Sciences, earned a D.Sc. title in Technical Sciences
Career:
- 1973-1982: Research Assistant, Department of Solid State Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague,
- 1982-1987: Researcher, Department of Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague
- 1987 – to date: Senior Researcher, Head of Laboratory, Department of Physics of the Czech(oslovak) Academy of Sciences, Prague
- 2000 – to date: Head of Department, Department of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Specialisation:
- grain borderlines in metallic materials (migration, segregation…)
- grain borderline engineering
- nano-crystalline and ultrafine-grained materials
- crystallization of metals
Lectures:
- Physics of Metals
- Physical Metallurgy (PhD studies)
Awards:
- 1988: The Czechoslovak Academy of Science Award
- 1997: Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Specialists
- 2002: Commemorative Medal of Košice Technical University
- 2004: Included in the Contemporary Who´s Who (American Biographical Institute, Raleigh) and in Who´s Who in Science and Technology (Marquis, New Providence)
- 2011: Included in Who’s Who in the Czech Republic (Hübner)
International fellowships (1 month or longer):
- 1989–99: Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Německo
- 1997: National Research Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japonsko
- 1997,1999: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- 2000, 2005: Tohoku University, Sendai, Japonsko
- 2001, 2002: Ecole Superieure Nationale des Mines, St. Etienne, Francie
Membership in professional organizations and editorial boards:
- Member of the Metals Science Society (since 1984), Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicians (since 1995), Mater. Res. Soc., USA (MRS, since 1996), The Czech Society for New Materials and Technologies (since 2000), Czech Chemical Society (since 2000), the Czechoslovak Association for Crystal Growth (since 2004)
- Member of the editorial board of the Surface and Interface Analysis (since 2005)
- Member of the editorial board of the Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (since 2008)
- Member of the science advisory board of the Department of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (1998–2006, 2002–3 as Chairman)
- Member of the science advisory board of the Faculty of Chemical technology, ICT Prague (since 2006)
- Elected member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2002)
- Member of the Committee of the School of Materials Science (France) (since 1999)
- Member of the Physical and Material Engineering Board of the Construction Faculty of the Czech Technical University Prague for physical metallurgy and chemical metallurgy (since 1999)
- Member of the Chemistry and Technology of Materials Board of the ICT Prague for metallurgy (since 2000)
- Member of the Physics Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague for Physics of Condensed Substances (since 2005)
- Member of the Standing Commission for the Defence of DSc Dissertations for Material Sciences and Engineering (since 2003)
- Member of the Research Board of Advisors at the American Biographical Institute (since 2004)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of ECASIA Conferences (since 2004)
Research projects:
- 2012-2018 (GAČR, Excellence in basic research, P108/12/G043) Mikro- a nanokrystalické materiály s vysokým podílem rozhraní pro moderní strukturní aplikace, biodegradabilní implantáty a uchovávání vodíku (investigator).
- 2020-2022 (GAČR, 20-05903S): Kombinovaná intenzivní plastická deformace pro přípravu tvarovaných ultrajemnozrnných materiálů s gradientními strukturami (investigator).
Notable magazine contributions:
- Molnárová, O., Habr, S., Málek, P., Lejček P., Complex shearing of extruded tube (CSET) method for production of tubes with ultra-fine-grained structure, “Materials Letters” 2020, 278, 128341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128341
- Lejček, P., Čapek, J., Roudnická, M., Molnárová, O., Maňák, J., Duchoň, J., Dvorský, D., Koller, M., Seiner, H., Svora, P., Vojtěch, D. Selective laser melting of iron: Multiscale characterization of mechanical properties, “Materials Science and Engineering A” 2021, 800, 140316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.140316
- Lejček, P., Hofmann, S., Všianská, M., Šob, M. Entropy matters in grain boundary segregation, “Acta Materialia” 2021, 206, 116597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.116597
- Lejček, P., Hofmann, S., Entropy-dominated grain boundary segregation, “Journal of Materials Science” 2021, 56, 7464-7473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-05800-w
- Lejček, P., Hofmann, S., “Entropy-driven grain boundary segregation: Prediction of the Phenomenon”, “Metals” 2021, 11, 1331. https://doi.org/10.3390/met11081331
- Molnárová, O., Habr, S., de Prado, E., Čapek, J., Ekrt, O., Németh, G., Málek, P., Lejček, P., Microstructural Evolution of a 3003 Based Aluminium Alloy during the CSET Process, “Materials” 2021, 14, 5770 (17 pp). https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14195770