Education:
2001 - I graduated at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, with master thesis: Control of disjunctive tectonics on Janovický potok Brook Valley and the adjacent part of Sázava River.
2007 – I defended PhD thesis Morphostructural evolution of north-eastern Rychlebské hory Mts. (in physical geography, Faculty of Science, Charles University)
Professional employment:
2000 – I have been employed in the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, since 2000. From 2000-2014 at the Department of Engineering Geology, and in 2015 at newly established Department of Neotectonics and Thermochronology as a head of the department.
Research interests:
tectonic geomorphology, active tectonics, paleoseismology (CZ, Spain, Mexico, USA), long-term morphotectonic relief evolution, geomorphological mapping
Educational activity:
- Supervising and consulting of bachelor, master, and PhD theses at Charles University in Prague, University of Ostrava, Masaryk University in Brno;
- Semestral course on Tectonic Geomorphology at Geography at the Masaryk University in Brno since 2012
- Short intense course on Tectonic Geomorphology (2011) at UNAM, Querétaro, Mexico
- Short intense course Tectonic Geomorphology and Paleoseismology (2014, 2015, 2016) Arba Minch University, Ethiopia
- Czech Association of Geomorphologists (ČAG), 2009-2016 vice-chairman
- INQUA (International Quaternary Association), International Focus Group “Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazard” – 2016-2019 co-leader of the IFG
- TERPRO commission of INQUA, since 2019 – vise-president
- Czech Tectonic Group (ČTS)
- Central European Tectonic Group (CETEG)
- Czech Association of Engineering Geologists (ČAIG)
- International Association for Engineering Geology (IAEG)
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Foreign experience and residency:
- April-July 2003, residency at the University of Camerino, Italy (Erasmus project); geomorphological field mapping in tectonic intramontane Colfiorito basin
- September 2003, AIQUA 8thSummer School on Quaternary Geology, Aquila,Italy, tectonic basins
- April 2005, European Advanced School on Active Tectonics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
- November 2005, internship and paleoseismic field work on the Carboneras fault, Almería, Spain, Dpt. de Geodinàmica i Geofísica, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona
- June 2006, Annual International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan), focused on large seismically triggered landslides
- January 2008, paleoseismic field work in the Carboneras fault, Almería, Spain, Universitat de Barcelona
- April 2009, paleoseismic field work in the Alhama de Murcía fault, Murcía, Spain
- December 2009, Advanced School on Earthquakes Engineering in Nuclear Facilities, ICTP, Trieste
- January-March 2010, April 2011 internship at San Diego State University, California;field and LiDAR mapping of the Elsinore fault (San Andreas Fault zone); paleoseismic field work on the Imperial fault (SAF)
- March 2011, October 2013 - paleoseismic fieldwork in Acambay fault zone in Central Mexican Volcanic belt, Mexico
- May 2012 - paleoseismic fieldwork in Dead Sea transform fault zone, Israel
