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