Since 2012, Dr. Skocek has been working at HeidelbergCement Global R&D, currently as the R&D Program Manager Carbonation Technologies and as a Senior Scientist before. He has been managing R&D projects on CO2 reduction by concrete recycling, enforced carbonation and CO2 mineralization, which recently got awarded the German Innovation prize for climate and environment.
Before joining the industry, Jan followed an academic career in the field of material science related to concrete and cement (2006-2012, DTU, Copenhagen) and of numerical methods and modelling (2003-2006, CTU, Prague).