{"id":3140,"date":"2026-02-02T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/?post_type=team&#038;p=3140"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:08:54","slug":"bohumil-kasal","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/team\/bohumil-kasal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bohumil Kasal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bohumil Kasal (<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4431-0863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4431-0863<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">) holds professorships at the University of Primorska, Slovenia, Czech Technical University in Prague, TU Braunschweig (em) and North Carolina State University (aff).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"CS\">Prof. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kasal was until October 2024 a Director of the Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute in Braunschweig and held the Chair in Organic Construction Materials at Carolo-Wilhelmina University in Braunschweig, Germany. Prior to this appointment, he held the prestigious Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair of Residential Building Construction at the Pennsylvania State University, where he was appointed a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Architectural Engineering, and a Director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kasal, a registered professional engineer, has authored over 200 publications and has been consistently included in the Stanford University list of the World\u2019s Top 2% Scientists. <\/span><span lang=\"CS\">He<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> holds two MS degrees and a PhD degree from Virginia Tech and Oregon State University in Wood Science and Engineering and in Civil Engineering.\u00a0 Dr. Bohumil Kasal was a member of the U.S. Congressional Wind Hazard Reduction Caucus, a position he held beginning in 2000 and he also chaired the North Carolina Governor&#8217;s Committee for wind loads on residential construction (1999\u20132005). <\/span><span lang=\"CS\">Dr. Kasal<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> is an Elected Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member of the American Academy of Mechanics, IAWS Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. He is a recipient of numerous awards such as Wood Award, Wilhelm-Klauditz Medal, SWST George G. Marra Award for Excellence in Research and Writing, Commemorative Medal for scientific contributions from\u00a0 ITAM of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kasal established or helped to establish four European Centers of Excellence,<\/span><span lang=\"CS\"> including LignoSilva,\u00a0 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">with total funding of over 100 Million Euros. In addition, <\/span><span lang=\"CS\">he <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">acquired funding and built the Fraunhofer Center of Environmentally Friendly Structures at the TU Braunschweig,\u00a0 Fraunhofer WKI Center for Wood Fiber Research (HOFZET) in Hannover, and the Fraunhofer Pilot Facility for Wood Composites in Braunschweig, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Standard\">During his free time, Prof. Kasal enjoys mountain biking and cross-country skiing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3147,"template":"","team-category":[22,23],"class_list":["post-3140","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-category-leadership","team-category-science","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lignosilva.eu\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-category?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}