Prof. em. Dr. Pavel Hora

Pavel Hora has been an associate professor for Virtual Manufacturing and Forming Technology since October 1, 2004.

Born on June 6, 1955 in Prague, Prof. Hora studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich, focusing on thermal turbo-machines and fluid dynamics. In 1990 he received his PhD under Prof. J. Reissner in the field of numerical failure modeling. In 1996 he was nominated as a titular professor of ETH Zurich. In 2005, he also became an associate member of the D-MTEC at ETH.

Following graduation, he worked as an assistant scientist at the Institute for Forming Technology with Prof. Reissner. In 1985 he joined BBC at the department for technical and scientific computational applications, where he was responsible for the further development and application of Boundary Element Methods. In 1986 he was employed at the MARC Res.Corp. in Palo Alto working on software projects. Since 1986, he has headed the group for numerical simulations in forming processes at the Institute of Forming Technology. The program AutoForm, developed during these positions, became one of the international leading software products in the field of virtual forming. His research activities focus on virtual process modeling, including mathematical constitutive modeling, failure prediction, numerical optimization of manufacturing processes, and stochastical methods for robustness control. He lectures on computational sciences and the specialization of forming technology.