**About the Editor**

**Peter Jurˇci**, Professor, born 10 May 1968. Professor since 2010 in the field Materials Science and Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Professional orientation: heat treatment; thermo-chemical heat treatment; distortion of components due to heat- and thermo-chemical treatments; physical methods of coating tools with chromium nitride, with the addition of silver nanoparticles, cryogenic processing of tool steels, boriding of tool steels
