**Jan Valentin**

Jan Valentin (Ph.D.) has been the deputy head of the Department of Road Construction at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague for the last 13 years. At the same time, he has been working for 20 years as an expert in various positions within the multinational company HOCHTIEF (currently as sustainability manager of HOCHTIEF CZ). In the past 10 years he has also led several national research projects and two international (European) projects—CoRePaSol and FunDBitS—within the CEDR research and development calls. Since 2022, he has been the coordinator of the European project RECONMATIC within Horizon Europe, focused on whole life-cycle waste managemen<sup>t</sup> in combination with digitalization and automatization. Jan holds a master's degree and a PhD degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Professionally, his main focus is on asphalt pavement technologies, including aspects of recycling, functional testing of asphalt mixtures and binders. In recent years, he has also increasingly focused on aspects of sustainability and circular economy with an emphasis on the issue of increasing recycling. He is the author or co-author of a number of publications, two patents, more than 20 utility models and many proven technologies implemented in the Czech Republic. He represents the Czech Republic in the European Asphalt Pavements Association.
