Education
| 09/2009 – 10/2015 | Ph.D. in Archaeology |
| Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Ph.D. thesis: Territoriality and regional aspects in the Final Eneolithic in Moravia | |
| 07/2006 – 09/2008 | Master’s degree (Mgr.) in Archaeology |
| Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| 07/2003 – 06/2006 | Bachelors (Bc.) in Archaeology |
| Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
Current position
| from 01/2021 | Researcher |
| Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| from 01/2017 | Research assistant |
| Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech republic |
Previous positions
| 02/2016 – 12/2020 | Post-doc |
| Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| 03/2013 – 12/2016 | Research assistant |
| Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech republic |
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| 02/2012 – 01/2016 | Research assistant |
| Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic |
International fellowships
| 09/2020 – 10/2020 | Institut für archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Bern, Switzerland (financed by IBOAT project) |
| 09/2017 – 03/2018 | Fulbright Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| 03/2013 – 06/2013 | Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany (financed by Freemover) |
| 03/2007 – 06/2007 | Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Wien, Austria (financed by the Erasmus Programme) |
Projects
| Principal investigator | |
| 2019 – 2021 | Land use, social transformations and woodland in Central European Prehistory. Modelling approaches to human-environment interactions (Czech Science Foundation, 3.976.000 CZK) link |
| Researcher | |
| 2019 – 2021 | Application of the long-term forest history to forestry practices (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, PI Ondřej Vild) link |
| 2012 – 2016 | Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from estimations to a realistic model (European Research Council, PI Péter Szabó) link |
| 2013 – 2016 | Historical land use of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands in prehistory and medieval period (Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, PI Zdeněk Měřínský) link |
Awards
| 2019 | Czech Academy of Sciences Award for young researchers for outstanding results in research, experiments and innovations |
| 2018 | President of the Masaryk University Award for outstanding young researchers under 35 – 201 |
| 2017 | Jan Rulf Award of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague – 2017, 4th place |
| 2016 | Best doctoral thesis award of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University – 2015/2016, 3rd place |
Invited lectures
| International conferences | |
| 2019 | “Modelling approaches to large-scale archaeological datasets as a way to reveal past socioenvironmental dynamics“, international colloquium Digital Archaeology: Quantitative approaches, spatial statistics and socioecological modelling, University of Bern, Switzerland (4–6 February) |
| 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 (18–19 June) |
| Colloqia at university departments | |
| 2020 | “Migrations or local interactions? What to study in the archaeology of the 3rd millennium BC in Europe”, University of Bern, Switzerland (26th October) |
| 2018 | “Archaeology of local interactions. Social and spatial aspects of the Final Eneolithic Societies in Central Europe”, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (9th May) |
Teaching experience
| 2016 – present | Seminar on Prehistory (Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 2014 – present | Seminar thesis (Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 2012 – present | Europe in the Neolithic and Copper Age (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; 2012 University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) |
| 2012 – 2016 | Archaeological Surveys – Practice – workshop I (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 2012 – present | Bachelor thesis (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 2012 – present | Bachelor thesis – seminar (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 2011 | Archaeological excavation – Practice – workshop II (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 2010, 2012 | Neolithic and Eneolithic of Central Europe – seminar (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
Organizational activities
| 2020 | Co-organizer of session “Now you can’t see me! Searching for resilience as an archaeologically observable phenomenon” at the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Hungary – online |
| 2019 | Co-organizer of session “Why we think we know what they did: Data, experiments and models of Neolithic land use” at the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Switzerland |
| 2012 | Co-organizer of the international conference “Theory and Method in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Central Europe”/ Czech Republic |
| 2010 | Co-organizer of the international conference “Theory and Method in the Archaeology of Neolithic in Central Europe” / Czech Republic |
Reviewing activities
| 2013 | Guest Editor, Anthropologie. International Journal of Human Diversity and Evolution/ Czech Republic |
| Ad hoc reviews for Quaternary International, Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, Documenta Praehistorica, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Archaeologia Polona, Sprawozdania Archaeologiczne, Archeologické rozhledy | |
Memberships of scientific societies
| 2020 – present | Member, Early Career Researchers Task Force of the European Association of Archaeologists (from 2021 listed as a community of the EAA) |
| 2015 – present | Member, Research group “LandCover6K” of the PAGES initiative |
| 2012 – present | Member, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) |
Major collaborations
| Luka Papac, Wolfgang Haak (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany) | |
| – aDNA of prehistoric human populations in Central Europe | |
| Michal Erneé (Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, CZ) | |
| – aDNA of prehistoric human populations in Central Europe | |
| David Novák, Martin Kuna, Dagmar Dreslerová, Peter Demján (Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, CZ) |
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| – Archaeological Map of Czech Republic | |
| Kathleen Morrison (Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) |
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| – Global land use and land cover reconstructions during the Holocene | |
Qualifications and other skills
| IT | ArcGIS 10.3, QGIS, Statistica, R, Inkscape, Gimp |
| Languages | Czech (mother tongue), English (Upper Intermediate), German (Intermediate), Serbian (Beginner) |
| Other | Driving licence B |
Specialized training courses
| 01/2010 – 02/2011 | Prefekt – education in organization and management in research (one-year course at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 10/2012 – 05/2014 | Critical thinking and Global topics (course for teachers, certified by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic) |
