Prof. Petr Sáha Wins the Visionary of 2023 Award
14. December 2023Prof. Petr Sáha, founder and Rector Emeritus of Tomas Bata University in Zlín (TBU), has won the Personality Award for 2023 within the Visionary 2023 project. The award ceremony took place in the Congress Centre of Komerční banka in Prague. Prof. Petr Sáha has won the Visionary of the Year award for his lifetime contribution to innovations in education, research and development not only in the Zlín Region.
Prof. Petr Sáha is the founder of Tomas Bata University in Zlín, where he served as Rector for four terms of office. He currently holds the post of Director of the University Institute. His expertise includes Energy and Composite Materials. His professional focus is on energy materials, polymer processes and medical polymers. At present, Prof. Sáha is engaged in research into energy materials from renewable resources; his team is mainly focusing on the preparation of components for batteries and supercapacitors from renewable resources, which will replace critical raw materials in the future.
Prof. Sáha completed studies at the Faculty of Technology of the Brno University of Technology, where he also worked. He was employed at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden for more than 10 years. Moreover, he held the office of Chairman of the Czech Rectors’ Conference.
He is active on the international scene at a number of universities (East China University of Science and Technology, Clemson University v USA, Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam and the University of Palermo in Italy). Between 2005 and 2007, he held the post of President of the Polymer Processing Society located in the USA, where he focused on the growth of polymer science in the development world. He was instrumental in the establishment of Bata Centre in Vietnam, which supports cooperation between institutions in Vietnam and Czech and European universities. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 specialist publications and several dozen patents, utility models, prototypes and industrial designs.