Education
2009–2015
PhD in Archaeology
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
· Thesis: ‘Teritoriality and regional aspects in the Final Eneolithic in Moravia’
· Supervisor: Prof Jiří Macháček
2006–2008
Master in Archaeology
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2003–2006
Bachelor in Archaeology
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Research Experience
6/2022–present
Research Fellow
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, United Kingdom
· Project: COREX. From Corelations to Explanations: Towards a new European prehistory (https://www.corex-erc.com), PIs Prof Mark Thomas, Prof Kristian Kristiansen, Prof Kurt Kjaer
· European Research Council Synergy grant
· Responsibilities: curating of a 14C database, data collection and analysis, writing papers, presenting results at international conferences, mentoring less experienced colleagues in SQL and R programming
2019–6/2022
Postdoctoral Researcher and (since 2021) Senior Researcher
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
· Project: Land use, social transformations and woodland in Central European Prehistory. Modelling approaches to human-environment interactions
· Funding awarded: Czech Science Foundation; 150,606 EUR
· Responsibilities: principal investigator, project management, supervision, data analysis, writing papers, presenting results at international conferences
2017–2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
· Various small projects in archaeology and historical ecology
2013–2022
Research and Teaching Assistant (part-time)
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2012–2016
Research Assistant and (since Jan 2016) Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
· Project: LONGWOOD. Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from estimations to a realistic model, PI dr Péter Szabó)
· European Research Council Starting grant
· Responsibilities: data collection and analyses, database management, writing papers, presenting results at international conferences
Major Research Collaborations
2018–present
Archaeological Map of Czech Republic
· Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
· dr David Novák, dr Martin Kuna, dr Dagmar Dreslerová, dr Peter Demján
2020–2021
aDNA of prehistoric human populations in Central Europe
· Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
· dr Luka Papac, dr Wolfgang Haak
2015–2021
Global land use and land cover during the Holocene
· Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
· prof Kathleen Morrison and the LandCover6K group
Funding
2019–6/2022
Czech Science Foundation
· Project: Land use, social transformations and woodland in Central European Prehistory. Modelling approaches to human-environment interactions
· Budget: 150,606 EUR
Visiting Fellowships
9–10/2020
9/2021
IBOAT Scholarship
Institut für archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Bern, Switzerland
9/2017–2/2018
Fulbright Fellowship
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
3–6/2013
Freemover Fellowship
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
3–6/2007
Erasmus Scholarship
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Wien, Austria
Award / Recognitions
2019
Czech Academy of Sciences Award for Young Researchers for outstanding results in research, experiments and innovation
2018
President of the Masaryk University Award for Outstanding Young Researchers under 35
Teaching and Supervising Experience
2010–present
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
· Designed and delivered lectures and seminars on the European Neolithic, archaeological methods, archaeological Surveys for undergraduates and postgraduate students
· Supervising bachelor students: 1 (1st supervisor)
· Supervising doctoral students: 2 (1st supervisor)
2022–present
Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
· Designed and delivered 1-day introductory workshop in data analysis in R
· Supervising doctoral students: 1 (2nd supervisor)
Invited Talks
International Conferences:
1–3/6 2022
“Plants or humans. Do we really need to choose what to study?” (keynote)
European Pollen Database meeting, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
4–6/2 2019
“Modelling approaches to large-scale archaeological datasets as a way to reveal past socio-environmental dynamics”
International colloquium Digital Archaeology: Quantitative approaches, spatial statistics and socioecological modelling, University of Bern, Switzerland
18–19/6 2018
“Landscape technologies through the prehistory. How did they transform the societies and their interactions with the environment?”
International workshop ‘Habitus, the social dimension of technology and transformation’, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Colloquia at University Departments:
16/10 2023
“Demography, social transformations and woodland in the past. Modelling approaches to studying complex human-environment interactions during the Holocene”
University College London, United Kingdom
4/10 2023
“Demography, social transformations and woodland in the past. Modelling approaches to studying complex human-environment interactions during the Holocene”
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
8/6 2023
“Plants and humans of the past. Modelling approaches to studying complex interactions during the Holocene”
Centre for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republi
26/10 2020
“Migrations or local interactions? What to study in the archaeology of the 3rd millennium BC in Europe”
University of Bern, Switzerland
28/11 2019
“Archaeology of local interactions or massive migrations?”
University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
9/5 2018
“Archaeology of local interactions. Social and spatial aspects of the Final Eneolithic Societies in Central Europe”
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Presentations
From 2010 more than 40 oral presentations at conferences and workshops.
Regularly presenting research results at major international conferences in Europe such the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel Open Workshop, Landscape Archaeology Conference, Digital Archaeology, Cross Disciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Demography (CROSSDEM).
Organisation of Scientific Meetings
2023
“Large quantities of Scientific Data: Stepping Stones for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology”
Co-organiser of the session at the Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Belfast (United Kingdom)
2023
“Macro-scale patterns in European prehistory 6000-1000 BCE”
Co-organiser of the session at the Kiel Conference. Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies / number of participants: >300 / Germany
2022
“Becoming a published archaeologist”
Co-organiser of the session at the Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Budapest (Hungary)
2021
“Theoretical approaches to computational archaeology”
Co-organiser of the international conference / number of participants: 30 / Czech Republic
2020
“Now you can’t see me! Searching for resilience as an archaeologically observable phenomenon”
Co-organiser of the session at the Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Hungary – online
2019
“Why we think we know what they did: Data, experiments and models of Neolithic land use”
Co-organiser of the session at the Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Bern (Switzerland)
2012
“Theory and Method in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Central Europe”
Co-organiser of international conference / number of participants: 40 / Czech Republic
2010
“Theory and Method in the Archaeology of Neolithic in Central Europe”
Co-organiser of international conference / number of participants: 30 / Czech Republic
Reviewing and Editing Activities
2023–present
Quaternary Environments and Humans
Editor
2013
Anthropologie. International Journal of Human Diversity and Evolution
Guest Editor
Ad hoc reviews for Journal of Archaeological Research, Radiocarbon, Quaternary International, Archaeometry, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Journal of Open Archaeology Data, Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, Documenta Praehistorica, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Archaeologia Polona, Sprawozdania Archaeologiczne, Archeologické rozhledy
Ad hoc reviews for National Science Centre Poland
Commisions of Trust
2023–present
Research Committee of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
2023–present
Scientific Committee of the Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic
2022–present
Book Prize Committee of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
2021–2022
Steering Committee of the 19th conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany (http://www.archaeobotany.org/)
Membership of Scientific Societies
2020–present
Early Career Researchers Community of the European Association of Archaeologists (https://ecarchaeologists.com/)
2012–present
European Association of Archaeologists (EAA; https://www.e-a-a.org/)
Qualification and Other Skills
IT
R (advanced), SQL (advanced beginner), QGIS (competent), ArcGIS (competent)
Languages
Czech (mother tongue), English (fluent), Slovak (fluent), German (intermediate), French (beginner)
Other
Driving licence B
