Research Areas
Zooplankton ecology, Predatory cladocerans, Aquatic food webs, Biodiversity
I am interested in interactions of zooplankton, as a crucial component of aquatic food webs, with their environment and consequences of these interactions. Having a working experience with a broad scale of water bodies ranging from floodplain pools through lakes of both natural and man-made origin up to the North American Great Lakes, I am intrigued by questions why and how life strategies of zooplankton species differ in various habitats.
Education
MSc. in Systematic Biology and Ecology (1994), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
PhD. in Hydrobiology (2000), University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Previous appointments
2009 - 2012: Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Germany
2006 - 2009: Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway
2001 - 2005: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory/NOAA, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2000 - 2001: Biological Faculty, University of South Bohemia and Hydrobiological Institute, Academy of Sciences CR, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
1994 - 1995: Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences CR, Třeboň, Czech Republic