Prof. Ivo Dlouhý graduated from Technical University of Ostrava in 1974. He obtained his CSc. (eq. to Ph.D.) in Physical Metallurgy and Limit States at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1984. After that, he performed a research fellow at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, from 1984 to 1989 and then worked as a leading research fellow in the group for Microstructure and Properties of Steels and Brittle Fracture Group at the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic between 1989 and 1994. From 1995 to 2022, he was head of the Brittle Fracture Group at the Institute of Physics of Materials CAS, and since 2008, he has been a professor and Director at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology. His scientific activities focus on fracture micromechanisms in materials, fractography and failure analysis, experimental fracture mechanics, mechanical and fracture mechanical behavior of materials, microstructure and properties of steels, fracture behavior of ceramics and composites, fracture behavior of intermetallics, and mechanical behaviour of coatings and/or substrates under loading. He is a member of the European Society for Structural Integrity Society and the American Ceramic Society. He is a representative of the Institute of Physics of Materials CAS in KMM-VIN European Virtual Institute.