Prof. RNDr. Bedřich Velický, CSc.

Professor Velický studied theoretical physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University during 1955–1960. In 1966, he submitted and defended a doctoral thesis (supervisor E. Antončík) and received the scientific degree CSc. (eq. to PhD) from the Scientific Committee on Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CSAS). In 1998, he was promoted to Associate Professor of general physics at Masaryk University in Brno; in 2000, he was appointed Professor of physics (theoretical physics) at Charles University; in 2001, he took up an appointment as Professor of theoretical and general physics at Masaryk University in Brno.
In 1960, Velický entered the Institute of Solid State Physics of the CSAS in Prague (later renamed the Institute of Physics of the CSAS) where he became successively Head of the Theoretical Group and Head of the Optical Group in the Department of Semiconductors and the Department of Theoretical Physics. He worked as the senior research scientist at the Department of Semiconductors of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, and also in the Department of Theoretical Physics of Masaryk University in Brno. Since 1999, he began working as a research scientist of the Centre for Theoretical Studies of Charles University (CTS UK) specialising in the philosophy and history of natural science. Since 2001, he has been Head of the Department of Theory of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University (KFKL UK).