Škoda Auto University Research Center
The Research Center of Škoda Auto University pursues existing enterprises defined as Institutional Research. It covers the processing of the regular annual study on the automotive industry related issues, hosting the international conference ICAI, or organizing public workshops and seminars.
About Škoda Auto University Research Center
The Research Center of Škoda Auto University pursues existing enterprises defined as Institutional Research. These are multi-disciplinary publication and networking activities that are of interest in the automotive industry. The Research Center covers the processing of the regular annual report on the state and development of the automotive industry, hosting the international conference ICAI. Thanks to a rise in personnel, it also manages the publication of review-type articles on automotive related issues, mainly for the needs of the university staff, in the form of written pieces in our internal newsletter. The Research Center aims to strengthen the university participation in the GERPISA network by participating in its activities, including publishing in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management and organizing research workshops and seminars. Any academic staff member of Škoda Auto University can participate in the center’s activities.
Škoda Auto University Research Center Staff
doc. Ing. Robert Frischer, Ph.D.
Head of the Research Center
robert.frischer@savs.cz
Robert Frischer has long focused on research activities in the fields of electronics, sensors, automation and machine vision. His focus is mostly application oriented, where he concentrates on grant application calls supporting research activities with industrial companies. It has been working with industrial partners since 2012, when the first joint patents, industrial designs and utility models were created. His focus is not only scientific, he has worked with a number of patent offices in the field of industrial protection and is able to assist industrial partners in this area as well. Industrial protection is currently very much neglected in the country, which is not good. He is also a designated expert in cybernetics and electronics and can be consulted for any expertise or issues outside of the university. As head of the research centre, he focuses on contract research and aims to work closely with business on R&D, particularly where there is a challenge or a commonly intractable problem. As an educator, he focuses on data processing, data networking, algorithmization and applied electronics. He has supervised more than a hundred theses in the past and has now successfully guided 5 PhD students to the defense.
doc. JUDr. Václav Šmejkal, Ph.D., D.E.A.
Researcher
vaclav.smejkal@savs.cz
Václav Šmejkal is a specialist in EU law, in particular the law of protection of economic competition, consumers, employees, as well as the regulation of the digital economy, data and artificial intelligence. He authored and co-authored several books and dozens of professional articles published in the Czech Republic and abroad. Besides ŠAU, he is a resident at Charles University in Prague, the Faculty of Law, and a regular guest lecturer at the University of Zagreb. He has been cooperating with ŠAU since 2007, regularly participating in its conferences and publishing articles in their proceedings. His publications include topics related to the effects of competition law regulation in the automotive industry.
Ing. Michal Hrubý
Researcher
michal.hruby@savs.cz
Michal Hrubý is a scientific assistant at the Škoda Auto University Research Center focusing on economic transitions and industrial transformation. His research specializes in the electrification of transport and its basic economic characteristics. One of the phenomena of his interest is the so-called "path dependence," or dependence of economic processes on time. Michal is a PhD candidate in international economic relations at Prague University of Economics and Business, where he explores the impact of regulation on the automotive industry and assesses new industrial policies. His previous research experience comes from the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM and the International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC). He recently held a non-resident ReThink.CEE fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with a project focused on industrial policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Michal received a master's degree in economics at the Škoda Auto University.
