I am a researcher at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, with a main focus on quantitative ecology, macroecology, palaeoecology, and community ecology with an interest in data science.
Education
PhD in Entomology | 11/2019
University of South Bohemia | České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Thesis awarded by dean’s prize entitled “Spatial structure and community dynamics of arboreal ants in a tropical rainforest”
MSc in Zoology | 6/2015
University of South Bohemia | České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Thesis awarded dean’s price entitled “Structure and dynamics of arboreal ant communities along successional gradient in a mountain tropical forest of New Guinea”
BSc in Biology | 6/2013
University of South Bohemia | České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Thesis entitled “Detection of UV-fluorescent-marked prey in the guts of predators and scavengers, dynamics of scavenging in a model experiment”
Professional experience
11/2023 - present
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Assistant Professor of Plant Ecology
6/2023 - present
Center for Theoretical Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Awardet a personal GACR grand for my BIODYNAMICS project.
9/2022 - 6/2023
Parental leave
2/2020 - 6/2023
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
Postdoc at ERC project (PI: Prof. H.J.B. Birks) entitled “Humans on planet Earth (HOPE)”
7/2015 - 12/2019
Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Czech Republic
PhD researcher funded by several individual grants.
Major collaboration
2022 - present
Past Global Changes
Committee member of Planetary Boundaries Working Group led by Prof. Lindsey Gillson
2022 - present
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
Adviser of The Past, Present and Future of Alpine Biomes Worldwide led by Dr. Suzette Flantua
Institutional responsibilities
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ
- 2024 - present head of the Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology
- 2024 - Present Graduate Student Advisor
- 2023 - Present Faculty member
- 2023 - Present Organizer of the Internal Seminar
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
- 2022 - 2023 Member of a PhD Hiring Committee
Fellowships
6/2023 - present
Center for Theoretical Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Awarded personal GACR Postdoc Individual Fellowship - Incoming
2018
Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
IBERA scholarship
2017 (2 months)
Smithsonian Institution Conservation and Research Center, Virginia, USA
Smithsonian Fellowship
Other work experiences
2019 (6 weeks)
Nditam, Cameroon, Africa
Leading field sampling of arboreal ants on an ERC project (PI: Prof. V. Novotny) entitled “Ecological determinants of tropical-temperate trends in insect diversity”
2017 - 2019 (6 weeks)
Brussels, Belgium
Main data analytics at Mobility Plus project (PIs: Dr P. Klimes and Dr M. Leponce)
2018 (2 months)
EuCFACE - WSU, Australia
Field experiments on tri-trophic interactions on ERC project (PI: Dr K. Sam) entitled “Why is the world green: testing top-down control of plant-herbivore food webs by experiments with birds, bats and ants”
2016 (6 months)
Binatang research centre, Papua New Guinea
Leading field project focused on arboreal ant ecology
Invited presentations to conferences
2022
Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology
2022
FOSSILPOL: The workflow to process global palaeoecological pollen data
European Pollen Database Open Science Meeting
Teaching
2024 (upcoming)
Course organiser of 3 classes at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic:
- SPROuT - Science Powered through Reproducibility, Openness, and Teamwork
- CodeFest - Innovating Together for a Better University Environment
- Science School on Quantitative Ecology
see my current teaching acitities for more details
2021 - 2023
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
- Course organiser of OSW: Reproducibility in science
- Course co-organiser of Community Ecology
Supervision
2024 (starting)
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
- 1 PhD student - STARS program
- 1 bachelor student
See Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology for more details about team members
2016 - 2019
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- 1 bachelor student
Organisation of scientific meeting
2024 (upcoming)
Science School of Quantitative Ecology
- Main co-organizer
- Germany
- ~35 participants
2024
Quantitative Ecology Special Interest Group meeting
- Main organiser
- Prague, Czech Republic
- ~15 participants
2023
RoC for geochemistry and XRF data workshop
- Co-organiser and presenter
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Switzerland
- ~20 participants
2023
Palaeoecology and Sustainability
- Main co-organiser and presenter
- Meeting by Planetary Boundaries Working Group, Rome, Italy
- ~15 participants
2022
Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology
- Co-organiser (part of the Rising Star program) and presenter
- Brno, CZ
- ~300-500 participants
2023
- Co-organiser and presenter
- Workshop by African Pollen Database Council
- online
- ~35 participants
2021
Data Manipulation & Statistical Analysis in Palaeoecology
- Co-organiser and presenter
- Seminar by Palaeoecology Special Interest Group BES
- online
- ~50 participants
Reviewing activities
2023 - present
GAUK Evaluator, Charles University, Czech Republic
2019 - present
Reviewer, >15 registered reviews in Global Ecology and Biogeography, Global Change Biology, Ecology Letters, Anthropocene, Biotropica, etc.
Software development
I have developed several R packages: