| 1959 | M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague |
| 1959 - 1962 | research worker in Research Institute of Aeronautics |
| 1962 - 1968 | senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanics of the Faculty of Engineering of the Czech Technical University |
| 1968 - 1984 | Institute of Thermomechanics CAS, Prague |
| 1974 | Ph.D. thesis "The Stress State of Elastic Wall Strip under Transverse Impact" |
| 1984 - 1992 | Institute of Technology and Reliability of Structures, ASCR, Pilsen |
| 1993 - 1994 | Institute of Technology and Reliability CAS & WBU, Pilsen WBU, Pilsen |
| 1995 | Institute of Physical Technologies and Reliability CAS & WBU, Pilsen |
| 1996 - 1997 | Institute of Physical Engineering CAS & WBU, Pilsen |
| since 1998 | Institute of Thermomechanics CAS, Pilsen |