Work experience
2012 - present Senior Scientist, Head of Department of Geochemistry
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2003 - 2012 Junior Scientist
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1990 - 1992 Assistant
Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University


Research Interests
Fossil biomarkers in geo-materials
Amber, copal, fossil wood, and their characterisation
Fossilisation as process of preservation of biological materials
Coalification in connection with chemical composition
Chromatographic methods
Markers of pollution in environmental samples


Education
1992-1999 Ph.D. studies in Analytical Chemistry
Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
1985-1989 M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry
Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
1980-1985 Secondary School of Chemistry, Study branch: Analytical Chemistry


Memberships
The Society for Organic Petrology
Czech Chemical Society
Editorial Board Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia


Additional Training
Universitá degli Studi di Genova, Italy, March-April 1993


Projects
Radiolytic alteration of organic matter in uraniferous environment (2019 - 2021)
A model of mobilization and geochemical cycles of potentially hazardous elements and organic compounds in burned coal heaps (2015 – 2017)
The system of active runoff pollutants capture as a solution for implementation of the standards ČSN 759010 and TNV 759011 (2015 – 2017)
Biomarkers and petrographic parameters: relationship between them and limits of their explanatory power (2013 – 2015)
Quantification, sources and potential implications of black carbon in soils and sediments from the urban and coal mining areas in the Czech Republic (2008 -2010)


Publications
Author and co-author of more than 50 articles in international journals, H-index 12