Specialization
Main research areas: Population and community ecology in aquatic habitats, life history evolution, interactions between humans and aquatic ecosystems, impact of climate change.
Methods: mathematical models, laboratory and field experiments, statistical analyses.
Brief CV
2014-2018: Head of Department of Ecosystems Biology, Faculty of Science USB
since 2014: Head of Laboratory of Aquatic Insects and Relict Ecosystems, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre AS CR, vvi, České Budějovice
2012: Associate Professor (Ecology), Faculty of Science USB
2009-current: Faculty of Science USB, České Budějovice (full time position since 1 January 2012)
2008-2009: postdoctoral fellow (European Research Network FinE), Institute of Marine Research / University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (3 months)
2005-2008: Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (Marie Curie Research Training Network FishACE), Institute of Marine Research / University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (36 months)
2004: postdoctoral fellow (NATO Science Fellowship), Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (5 months)
2002-2004: external lecturer, Institute of Creative Photography, FPF SU, Opava
1997-2005: Faculty of Biology USB, České Budějovice, part-time position
1997-current: Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre AS CR, vvi, České Budějovice (full time position until 31 December 2011)
1997-2002: dálkové studium tvůrčí fotografie, Institut tvůrčí fotografie FPF SU, Opava (Bc. 2000, MgA. 2002)
1995-1997: civil servise, Jírovcova High School, České Budějovice (18 months)
1994-2002: PhD studies, mathematical engineering, FNSPE CTU, Praha (external since 1997, thesis title "Essays on optimal foraging and the Allee effect")
1989-1994: mathematical engineering, FJFI ČVUT, Praha (Ing. = MSc. equivalent)
More information
Current projects
2014-2016: Impact of predation risk and habitat complexity on the dynamics of macroinvertebrate community assembly in freshwater (GA CR 14-29857S, PI)
2016-2018: Ecological interactions in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for community and ecosystem functioning (team grant GA JU, 158/2016/P, PI)
2016-2019: SoWa (Soil and Water), National Research Infrastructure (team member, since 07/2016)
2016-2020: ClimeFish, EU Horizon 2020 programme (team member at Biology Centre CAS, since 05/2016)
Previous projects
2013-2015: Evaluating the impacts of biotic interactions and abiotic stressors on populations and communities (team grant GA JU, 145/2013/P, PI)
2012-2015: Mapping known and possible occurrence of Graphoderus bilineatus and confirming the occurrence of Dytiscus latissimus in the Czech Republic (within the program Monitoring a celoplošné mapování evropsky významných druhů jako podklad pro dokončení návrhu soustavy NATURA 2000 v ČR, AOPK CR)
2010–2013: How plastic are freshwater insects? Measuring growth, phenotypic plasticity and evolution in selected taxa (GA CR, P505/10/0096, PI)
2010–2012: From individuals to populations: study of the interactions and population dynamics in selected groups of plants and animals (team grant GA JU, 145/2010/P, PI)
2010–2012: Size selection, energy budgets and the evolutionary responses to predation risk (International Joint Project, Royal Society, UK, co-PI with A. Beckerman, University of Sheffield)
2009–2013: Modelling individual life histories and population dynamics of predatory aquatic insects: the role of body size (Marie-Curie Reintegration Grant, EU FP7, PI)
2009–2010: Monitoring man-made lakes: what can fisheries data and models tell us? (Financial Mechanisms of EEA and Norway, A/CZ0046/2/0029, PI)
2005: EU SYNTHESYS Travel Grant, stay at Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria (2 weeks)
2004: NATO Science Fellowship, stay at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nizozemí (5 months)
2002–2005: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of sexual size dimorphism (postdoctoral project, GA CR, PI)
Invited lectures and awards
2015: invited lecture Where scales and thermometre do (not) suffice: selected chapters on life and death of aquatic insects, "Biological Thursdays in Vinicna" seminar series, 12 November, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (YouTube link, in Czech)
2014: Behaviour of anglers and the state of fish communities revealed from angler logbooks, Czech Angler Union HQ, 3 March, Prague (CZ)
2012: plenary lecture Life and death underwater: what do we (not) know about predatory aquatic insects?, congress of the Slovak Zoological Society, 22-24 Novemeber, Zvolen (Slovakia)
2012: Do commercial fisheries cause evolution of fish? Instutue of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 28 November, Prague (CZ)
2010: Do commercial fisheries cause evolution of fish?, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 2 March, Prague (CZ)
2009: Do commercial fisheries cause evolution of fish?, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 3 December, Brno (CZ)
2009: Models of fish population dynamics and fisheries-induced evolution, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre AS CR, 26 March, Č. Budějovice (CZ)
2006: Young Investigator Award, best presentation, 6th Mote international Symposium in Fisheries Ecology, Sarasota, Florida (USA)