Petr Konvalinka
Petr Konvalinka was appointed the Chair of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic by the Czech government in 2018. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) with studies in Construction and Transport Engineering. In 2008 he was appointed professor in Theory of Building Structures and Materials. Since 1984, he has worked as an academic at the CTU giving lectures on construction mechanics and working on research and experimental projects. He was the lead researcher and co-investigator on many important projects in fundamental and applied research. Between the years 2014 – 2018, he was the Rector of CUT.