Jiří Jaroš appointed new professor at FIT BUT

The President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel has appointed new professors based on recommendations from the scientific and artistic councils of universities. He personally presented the appointment decrees on Monday, June 16, 2025, at Karolinum in Prague. Among the seven names (six professors and one female professor) from the Brno University of Technology is Jiří Jaroš from the Faculty of Information Technology.

Jiří Jaroš has been working for more than 15 years in the fields of high-performance computing, software for research and development, parallel and distributed algorithms, and numerical simulation. He has been a key figure in this field at FIT BUT since 2013, and since 2016 he has led the Supercomputer Technologies research group there. He specializes in personalized medicine, where he works internationally in the fields of ultrasound and photoacoustics, from the reconstruction of clinical photoacoustic images and treatment planning based on patient tissue models to fundamental research in the design of ultrasound transducers. Last year, the research team under his leadership contributed to the creation of a groundbreaking diagnostic technology: an optical 3D photoacoustic scanner. Jaroš is also the co-founder of the k-Wave project, which has become the de facto standard software in the field of personalized medicine with nearly 25,000 registered users in 60 countries around the world. He received the Werner von Siemens Award for 2024 for his innovative teaching activities.

Other newly appointed professors from BUT are:

• Radim Burget, FEKT BUT
• Pavel Foltin, USI BUT
• Zdeněk Hadaš, FSI BUT
• Tomáš Kazda, FEKT BUT
• Barbora Klímová, FaVU BUT
• Roman Šotner, FEKT BUT

We warmly congratulate all newly appointed professors!