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International Scientific Advisory Board
International Scientific Advisory Board
International Scientific Advisory Board BUT is the main independent advisory body of the University, especially in the field of its strategic development and improvement of the quality of scientific, development, innovation, and educational activities.
Its members are renowned international experts drawn from the main scientific fields of the faculties and institutes of the BUT.
Responsibilities of the International Scientific Advisory Board BUT
providing opinions and recommendations to the management of the university, faculties and institutes on strategic plans in the areas of management, science, research, innovation, teaching, or other topics such as internationalisation, or the third role of the university
participating in the evaluation of individual faculties and institutes, or, if necessary, of teams or individuals
Members of the International Scientific Advisory Board BUT
Javier Aizpurua
Prof. Javier Aizpurua is a Research Professor of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the Center for Materials Physics in San Sebastian, the Basque Country, where he leads the “Theory of Nanophotonics Group”. He studies the interaction between light and matter at the nanoscale, with special emphasis in the optical response of metallic nanoantennas and quantum effects in plasmonics.
He has developed theoretical models and calculations which have helped to understand the excitation of surface plasmons in a variety of spectroscopy and microscopy techniques. The study of the optical response in extreme nanostructures guided his scientific career, taking him to a leading role in the research of Quantum Plasmonics worldwide, with several seminal contributions in the field, which includes the prediction of tunneling in plasmonic gaps at optical frequencies, or the identification of a novel regime in optomechanics involving molecular vibrations in plasmonic cavities.
Christian Bauer
Prof. Christian Bauer graduated 1991 in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart. In 2000 he finished his PhD in the field of Hydraulic Fluid-Flow Machinery. After several years in the industry he changed to the TU Wien in 2008. Currently he is dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
Elina Gaile-Sarkane
Prof. Dr. Elina Gaile-Sarkane is the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Riga Technical University (RTU). She has experience as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management and the Chair of the Senate. Elina's scientific and academic interests are related to innovation management, technology transfer, new product development, and strategy and change management.
She has been the Director of the doctoral study program in Economics and Management a supervisor for many Ph.D. students and seven doctoral candidates. She has also contributed as an expert in the promotional procedure of new doctors and as a consultant in doctoral thesis development, both in Latvia and abroad. Elina is an expert in the Latvian Academy of Sciences; within the accreditation and quality assurance field at higher educational institutions, she collaborates with several organizations, including ACEEU, ACSUG, and EQUAA.
Detlef Günther
Prof. Detlef Günther studied chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) and completed his PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 1990. Subsequently he joined the Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle. In 1994 he became Postdoc at Memorial University Newfoundland (Canada) and in 1995 he worked on elemental analysis at the Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources at ETH Zurich.
Appointed Professor at the Department of Chemistry (Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry of ETH Zurich) in 1998, Detlef became Associate Professor in July 2003. In February 2008 he was promoted to Full Professor for Trace Element and Micro Analysis and his research is focused on instrument and method development for trace element analysis and isotope ratio determinations. Since 2014 he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From January 2015 until 2020, he was Vice President for Research and Corporate Relations, and from 2021-2022 Vice President for Research of ETH Zurich.
Chris Hill
Chris Hill is a media curator, artist, and currently on the faculty at CalArts where she served for six years as Associate Dean in the Film/Video School. Hill received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo (1984), and was video curator at Hallwalls, an artists-run space.
She published interviews with artists involved with the Czech parallel culture before 1989 (Walking Trips in Czech Lands, 1996), and curated Surveying the First Decade: Video Art & Alternative Media in the U.S. (1996). She taught at Antioch College (Ohio) where she co-curated four Documentary Institutes (1997-2001) including surveys on Latin America and East Central Europe. Her research and publications have investigated contemporary artists’ work that re-embodies experimental film and grassroots video projects of the early 1970s, the U.S. incarceration crisis, tactical media initiatives in response to an educational community emergency, and beekeeping. In 2019 she was an artist-in-residence at the Agosto Foundation in Prague.
Alan Chalmers
Prof. Alan Chalmers is a Professor of Visualisation at WMG, University of Warwick, UK and a former Royal Society Industrial Fellow. He has an MSc with distinction from Rhodes University, 1985 and a PhD from University of Bristol, 1991.
He is a former Vice-President of ACM SIGGRAPH, has published over 265 papers in journals and international conferences on virtual experiences, virtual archaeology, and High Dynamic Range imaging, successfully supervised 51 PhD students and been investigator on many UK and EU grants.