Jiří Matějíček holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York in Stony Brook (1999) and works as a senior scientist at the Institute of Plasma Physics. His focus is on material development and characterization, thermal spray coatings, and materials for fusion. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications (H-index=29), participated in more than 30 national and international projects as principal investigator or co-investigator, and has supervised several students at BSc, MS, and PhD levels.
Jiri Martan holds a PhD in Physics and Laser–Material Interaction from the University of West Bohemia (UWB), Czech Republic, and the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Orleans, France (2005). He became an associate professor at UWB in 2019. He is head of the Laser Micro-processing and Thermodiagnostics Team. He focuses on the development of measurement systems, with a special focus on time-resolved temperature measurements and laser surface texturing (LST). He has been principal investigator or co-investigator of four international and two national projects. He is a member of the Board of Stakeholders of the Photonics21 European Technology Platform. He deals with cooperation with industry through specific contractual research projects (Honeywell International, Continental Automotive, Preciosa Ornela). His academic contributions include the following: H-index: 14; citations: 539; articles in impacted journals: 36; international patents: 2; function samples: 12; verified technologies: 9; prototypes: 10; research reports for industry: 18; and types of software developed: 3.
Denys Moskal holds a PhD in Physics and Laser–Material Interaction from the University of West Bohemia (UWB), Czech Republic (2020), and a Candidate of Sciences (CSc.) degree in Solid State Physics and Laser–Material Interaction from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine (2009). He is a member of the Laser Micro-Processing and Thermodiagnostics Team, specializing in the development of measurement systems and optical components, with a particular focus on fast thermal measurements, data processing, and thermal field modeling in laser-irradiated materials. Dr. Moskal has served as the principal investigator in two international and two national projects. He actively collaborates with institutions and laboratories across the EU. His academic contributions include an h-index of 9,202 citations, 16 articles in high-impact journals, 2 international patents, 2 prototypes, and 2 software systems.
František Lukáč received his PhD at Charles University in Prague in the field of the Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials research in 2015. He is an expert in X-ray diffraction methods and the quantitative Rietveld refinement analysis of identified phases. His research is focused on alloys and their lattice defects, mainly in bulk materials, plasma-sprayed ceramics, and thin films. He has also studied the development of phases and defects during sintering, severe plastic deformation, thermal treatment,
the corrosion and hydrogen loading of alloys, intermetallics, and high-entropy alloys through XRD methods, including high-temperature XRD.
He is an author/co-author of 181 papers with 1455 citations (Scopus), with an h-index of H = 21 according to Scopus.
Udo Loeschner graduated in Physical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida (Germany) in 1998. Thereafter, he has been an R&D engineer at the laser institute of the same university. Since 2006, he has joined the Rapid Micro-Tooling research group to investigate laser micro-processing with short and ultrashort pulse laser technologies. He completed his PhD thesis at the Technische Universitaet Ilmenau in 2007. From 2011 to 2016, he was an endowed professor for “high-rate laser processing”. In 2016, he became a full professor in the field of laser production technology, which includes high-rate laser processing. His latest activities have focused on the laser-assisted generation of bionic structures, i.e., to control surface properties regarding wettability, fluidics, or cell growth. Prof. Loeschner has published more than 100 articles in scientific and technical journals, as well as conference proceedings. Since 2022, he has been Deputy Director of Laserinstitut Hochschule Mittweida.
Joerg Schille graduated from the Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (Germany) in 2003 with a diploma in Physical Engineering. After gathering industrial experience, he moved back to the Hochschule Mittweida in 2006, initially employed as a postgraduate. In 2013, he graduated from the University of Manchester (UK) with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences. In this split-site PhD with Hochschule Mittweida and the University of Manchester, he investigated laser–matter interaction phenomena by using high-pulse-repetition-frequency ultrashort pulse lasers in micromachining. Joerg Schille is currently a member of the MACH-X High-Speed Laser Machining research group with the Laserinstitut Hochschule Mittweida. His research activities include laser micro-processing, ultrashort pulse laser ablation, high-rate laser machining, and laser safety. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific and technical journals, as well as conference proceedings.
