Between the years 1966 and 1971 Associate Professor Volek studied at the federal University of Transport and Communications of Žilina, in the field of Transport Technology and Control. After having finished the military service in 1972, he was taken on by the federal Transport Research Institute in Žilina as an internal doctoral student of Dr. Pavel Kluvánek. Here, he acted until 1974. In the second half of the year 1974, he transferred with his supervisor to the University of Transport and Communications of Žilina, Department of Mathematical Methods, where he stayed until 1989 in the position of an Assistant Professor. He taught courses in applied mathematics (Graph Theory with application in transport and logistic systems, Linear Programming, Theory of Games and Optimal Decision-Making, Queuing Theory, Inventory and Renewal Theory,...), Programming, Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics,...After the Velvet revolution in 1989 he switched to the Institute of Communications Development, where he worked until the dissolution of the Czechoslovakian Federation in 1992. In 1993 he started working as an Assistant Professor at the newly emerging Jan Perner Transport Faculty by the Faculty of Chemical Technology, from 1994 the University of Pardubice. At Jan Perner Transport Faculty, he gave lectures and led practical classes of the following courses: Graph Theory – application in transport and public administration, Linear Programming, Theory of Games, Operational Research, Programming Methods of Operational Research,...As part of the international student exchange within the Erasmus programme he taught 3 courses in the English language. In 1997 he also started teaching at the Department of Logistics and Management of Transport – Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Between the years 1997 and 2003 he assumed the post of Vice-Dean for Education at Jan Perner Transport Faculty, from 2004 to 2014 he was the Head of the Department of Informatics in Transport here. After having formally retired, he continued working full-time and at present he works part-time at the Department of Logistics and Management of Transport – Faculty of Transportation Sciences, CTU in Prague.
He defended his dissertation thesis in 1982 at the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina. In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Ostrava.
While working as an educator, he underwent several short-term study stays in European countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, France, or Great Britain. Apart from that, he also realised several long-term traineeships, study, scientific and research, educational as well as language stays abroad, out of which the most important were:
1979 – a year-long internship at Société nationale des chemins de fer francais (SNCF) and Institut de Recherches des Transports (IRT) in France
1995 – 2-month long scientific and research stay at Institut ricerche di transport (IRT), Genova
2006 – 3-month long educational stay at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Departmento de informatica.
He is the author of 2 monographs, 3 textbooks, and about 10 university coursebooks. He further wrote approx. 75 papers, mainly focused on the problems of optimisation of transport service in a territory, solving distribution tasks, optimisation of location-allocation problems and optimisation of transport and logistic processes. Many papers were presented at international conferences (Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Norway, Italy, Greece, Crete,...) and included in their books of proceedings.
Within the doctoral study at the 3 faculties where he performed, Assoc. Prof. Volek supervised approx. 25 internal/external doctoral students, out of which about 15 doctoral students successfully completed their study, 3 students were international (Bolivia, Sweden, Spain).
Language skills:
English, French, Slovakian: speaking, reading, writing
