Ing.TomášPicekPh.D.
Workplace: 
Faculty of Science
Room: 
BP-348
Specialization: soil and wetland ecology
Email: picek [at] prf.jcu.cz
Phone: 
387 772 348

Specialization

microbial processes and nutrient cycling in constructed and natural wetlands, interactions of vegetation and soil microbial community, greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils, quality of dissolved organic matter in wetland soils

Brief CV

1995      University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Faculty of Agriculture and  Faculty of Biological Sciences, Ing. (MSc) in agriculture, specialisation Pedobiotechnology

1996 - 1999  - employee at the Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Academy of Science

2001     PhD, specialisation ecology, at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, thesis: ”The effect of soil aeration status on microbial activities and organic substrate transformation”

2001 till present -  Research assistant at the Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia

2013-2016 – every year, 2-4 months employed at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany through programm UULM PRO MINT & MED -  organization of the course “Wetland ecology” (http://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman/work-packages/work-package-4/wetland-ecology.html)

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Projects

- Functional diversity of soil microorganisms in spruce swamp forest and its effect on soil DOM (GAČR 13-17398S, 2013-2016)

- Gaseous products of microbial decomposition of organic wastewater pollution in constructed wetland (GA ČR, GP206/03/P021, 2003-2005)

Teaching

2013 - present        course “Wetland ecology” at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, programm UULM PRO MINT & MED (3 weeks intense course), runing every year from 2013 (http://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman/work-packages/work-package-4/wetland-ecology.html)

2012 - present        included as a teacher into Erasmus international programm „Soil and water“ and Educational Network on Soil and Plant Ecology and Management (https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman.html)

2001 – present       Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia – teaching of course “Soil chemistry and physics”, partly included in courses “Wetland ecology” and “Production ecology”, supervisor of bachelor, master and PhD thesis