Martin Vaníček is technical director, designer, and consultant. His research interests are in calculation models for Earth structures, mainly reinforced by geosynthetics and contaminant transport. He has work experience in Belgium for 1 year in a nuclear research centre and in the United Kingdom for 4 years in a consulting company. He is member of the Czech Geotechnical Society, Czech & Slovak chapter of ISSMGE, author and co-author of many papers and co-author of a monograph on "Earth Structures in Transport, Water and Environmental Engineering". He is a member of a project team preparing part of the second generation of Eurocode 7. On ISSMGE European conferences he had an active role during the last about 15 years.