Lubos Hess

Lubos Hess

Prof. Hes worked 16 years in the Textile machinery institute in Liberec, Czech Republic as a designer of yarn texturizing and finishing machines and later entered the Czech University of Liberec where he currently teaches Clothing comfort and Heat and mass transfer in textiles. His research interests also include Technical textiles and Design of textile testing instruments. At the Faculty of Textiles of the TUL he became Head of Dept. of Nonwovens and later Head Dept. of Textile Marketing and also served 8 years at the Minho Univ. in Portugal as the Invited Professor. In 1990 he was on the UNIDO mission in India. Prof Hes has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and delivered more than 250 communications at conferences. He is currently member of editorial boards of 5 international textile journals and  serves as an examiner of PhD studies in Germany, Portugal and India. Prof. Hes was awarded by 65 patents and his original instruments for testing of clothing comfort are used in 22 countries. In 2010 he received the highest Manchester Textile Institute award – Honorary fellowship and in 2011 he was also awarded by the Honorary doctorate and in 2012 by the full professorship by the Wuhan Textile University in China.  In 2016 he received an award from the Czech government for the design and manufacture of his instruments.