Research profile

Martin Doškář is an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. His research is driven by a central question: how do the composition and geometry of materials at the microstructural scale — including their inherent randomness — shape macroscopic mechanical behavior? This perspective guides both his efforts to understand real materials and his development of tools to design new architectured materials and metamaterials.
A key theme in Martin’s work is modularity, both in how we represent complex material microstructures and how we design advanced materials and structural components. His early research, from Bachelor's through PhD level, focused on Wang tilings — a method for assembling non-periodic microstructures from modular building blocks. This offers a compact yet flexible way to describe stochastic heterogeneity and serves as a basis for efficient simulation schemes. Building on the same idea of assembling systems from modular units, he has been contributing to the development of modular-topology optimization. This approach supports the design of materials and structures from reusable building blocks and connects modeling with optimization and fabrication.
He develops and applies numerical methods in solid and structural mechanics, with a focus on problems where material heterogeneity and geometry play a central role. He has contributed to reduced-order modeling, enrichment techniques, and finite element formulations tailored to microstructured or modular materials. While many of these methods are motivated by multiscale challenges, his interest extends to efficient solution strategies and modeling tools more generally — including the use of domain decomposition and machine learning where they help accelerate simulation or enable new design approaches.

Academic profile

Martin Doškář earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in civil engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, before continuing into doctoral studies in the same field. His PhD research centered on the use of Wang tilings for representing complex microstructures, with applications in material modeling and numerical simulation.
As part of his academic development, he undertook several international research stays. These included a Fulbright fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (2016–2017, 9 months) with Prof. Petr Krysl; a one-month internship at MINES ParisTech in 2018 with Prof. Samuel Forest; and a one-year stay at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2019, working in the group of Prof. Marc Geers.
At CTU, he teaches courses in structural and computational mechanics, including lectures on micromechanics of heterogeneous materials and tutorials in elasticity, structural mechanics, and strength of materials. His teaching often reflects current research topics, particularly in modularity, multiscale modeling, and numerical methods.

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