Biographies of Authors and Editors
Filip, Peter Ph.D., D.Sc.
Full Professor
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Materials Technology Center
Mailcode 4040, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
E-mail: filip@siu.edu
Peter Filip is a Full Professor at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Ostrava (the Czech Republic), and a Visiting Professor and Associate Scientist at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (USA). He is teaching Materials Science, Physical Metallurgy, Biomaterials, and Friction Materials courses and is active in research devoted to understanding the relationship between the structure and properties of metals (with emphasis on shape memory alloys), ceramics (high-T superconductors, bioceramics), and composite materials (metal matrix composites: Ti-alloy/bioceramics/SMA, polymer matrix composites: phenolics, Kevlar, carbon fiber, glassy phase, metallic fiber, ceramics and mineral fiber and particulates). Research groups performed under his direction make pioneering work in the development and optimization of orthopedic and maxillofacial human implants, and developed several new orthodontic materials.
