RNDr. Milan Dopita, Ph.D.

RNDr. Milan Dopita, PhD., (born 1978)

Education:

• 1992 – 1996 Secondary school (gymnasium), Prostějov, Czech Republic
• 1996 – 2001 Study of physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
• 2001 Diploma in Physics (Mag.) Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague (Diploma thesis: X-ray study of quaternary composites (Ti,W)(C,N).)
• 2009 PhD. in Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague (PhD. thesis: Microstructure and properties of nanocrystalline hard coatings and thin film nanocomposites.)

Employment:

• 2001 – 2005 Scientist, at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.
• 2005 – 2015 Scientist, at the Institute of Materials Science, Technical University of Freiberg, Germany.
• 2015 –             Scientist, at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.

Stays abroad:

• 2000 Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2000 (3 months)
• 2003 – 2004 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, (6 months)
• 2005 – 2015 Technical University of Freiberg, Germany.

Scientific work – fields of interest:

• Methods:

X-ray scattering, powder diffraction, high / low temperature powder diffraction, total scattering, pair distribution function (PDF), electron microscopy, electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy (TEM, TEM/EELS), spark plasma sintering / field assisted sintering technology (SPS/FAST), Rman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), grazing incidence small angle scattering (GISAXS).

• Materials:

Nanocrystalline materials, nanocrystalline hard coatings and thin films, nanocomposites, metals, severely deformed materials, corrosion protective coatings for high temperature applications, hard bulk materials, cermets, ceramics, highly perturbed turbostratic carbon nanomaterials.

• Problems:

Real structure of materials, stress / strain determination, profile analysis, preferred orientation of crystallites, micro-texture, grain boundary engineering.

Projects:

2017–2022 NanoCent – Nanomaterials Centre for Advanced Applications, OPVVV, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000485

Additional Skills:

Computer skills: programming in Pascal, Fortran, Matlab, GNU Octave, Python and other computer languages, extensive experiences with numerous special scientific software

Publication activities:

authot or co-author of 90 publications with more than 1000 citations, h-index 17 (WoS)