Curriculum Vitae

CV

RESEARCH POSITIONS

2024-cont

Assistant Professor (Branco Weiss Fellow)

Population and Statistical Genetics Group
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2024-cont

Visiting Research Fellow

Evolutionary Ecology and Infection Biology Division
Lund University, Sweden

2023

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research and Conservation
Copenhagen ZOO, Denmark

2021-2023

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow

Population and Statistical Genetics Group
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2019-2021

Postdoctoral Researcher

Population and Statistical Genetics Group
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2018-2019

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

EDUCATION

2013-2018

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

in Systematics and Evolution
Stockholm University, Sweden

Thesis : Genomic analysis of the process leading up
to the extinction of the woolly mammoth

2011-2013

Master of Science (Mgr.)

in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

2010-2011

Erasmus

Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

2008-2011

Bachelor of Science (Bc.)

in Systematic Biology and Ecology
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

POSITIONS

2016

Laboratory Technician

Uppsala University
Project: Crow hybrid zone in the past
Extractions, Illumina libraries

2014

Laboratory Technician

Swedish Museum of Natural History
Project: Deep subseafloor biosphere
Extractions, Illumina libraries

2012-2013

Laboratory Technician

Czech Academy of Sciences
Project: Bat adaptations to the fungal disease geomycosis
Extractions, Primer design, PCR, qPCR

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2023

FORMAS Research projects for early-career researchers

Swedish Research council for sustainable development

2023

Branco Weiss Fellowship

2022

National Geographic Society Level I Grant

2022

Research grant

Co-applicant (main applicant Edana Lord)
Ymer-80 Foundation

2021

L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Denmark Award

2021

Research grant

Co-applicant (main applicant Edana Lord)
Bolin Center for Climate Research

2020

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship

Horizon2020

2017

Research Scholarship

Ymer-80 Foundation

2017

2nd place for Best Student presentation

Zoological Days, Czech Republic

2015

Award for Best poster

Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop

2015

Donation scholarship

Stockholm University

2012

Departmental Scholarship

Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University

2012

Short visit travel grant

FroSpects, European Science Foundation

2012

Research grant

Rector’s Program, Masaryk University

2011

Travel Grant

PROVAZ, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

SHORT RESEARCH VISITS

2012

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA

Morhometric sampling of museum specimens of tree squirrels

2011

Natural History Museum, London, UK

Morhometric sampling of museum specimens of tree squirrels

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

2023

10th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology

Tallinn, Estonia
Poster

2023

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Ferrara, Italy
Oral presentation

2023

Forests and Elephants Symposium

Online (Paris, France)
Invited talk

2022

European Conservation Genetics Meeting

Edinburgh, Scotland
Oral presentation

2022

Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Seminar

Berlin, Germany
Invited talk

2022

6th European Congress for Conservation Biology

Prague, Czechia
Oral presentation

2022

International Elephant Foundation Symposium

Online
Invited talk

2021

International Congress for Conservation Biology

Online (Rwanda)
Oral presentation

2021

International Elephant Foundation Symposium

Online
Oral presentation

2021

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium

Online (Turkey)
Invited talk

2021

Biodiversity Genomics

Online
Poster

2021

Muskox: between Wild and Domesticated

Online (Denmark)
Oral presentation

2020

Kaamos symposium

Online (Oulu, Finland)
Invited talk

2018

8th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology

Jena, Germany
Oral presentation

2017

Conservation of adaptive potential

Durham, UK
Oral presentation

2017

Zoological Days

Brno, Czech Republic
Oral presentation

2016

7th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology

Oxford, UK
Oral presentation

2016

ConGenOmics

Porto, Portugal
Oral presentation

2015

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Vienna, Austria
Poster

2015

International Colloquium on Arboreal Squirrels

Helsinki, Finland
Oral presentation

2013

Zoological Days

Prague, Czech Republic
Oral presentation

2010

Zoological Days

Brno, Czech Republic
Oral presentation

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

2023

MSc project

Co-supervisor
Signa Kallsoy Joensen

2023

Science Communication Workshop

Main organizator and speaker
2-day workshop for PhD students and postdocs

2022

Bioinformatics Student Project

Project supervisor
15 ECTS project

2022-5

PhD committee member

Nisha Dwivedi
Natural History Museum in Paris

2022

Fundamental Bioinformatics

Censor

2022

Bioinformatics Student Project

Project co-supervisor
2 projects of 15 ECTS

2022

Evolutionary Biology

Teaching Assistant
Speciation exercise

2020-2022

Evolutionary Biology

Lecturer
Palaeogenomics, Conservation Palaeogenomics

2020-2022

Population Genetics

Project supervisor
Small project in population genetics

2019-2021

Population Genetics

Teaching Assistant
Estimating nucleotide diversity

2018

Paleoecology, Genetics and Human Prehistory

Lecturer
Palaeogenomics of Wild Populations

2017

Conservation Biology

Lecturer
Genetics and Extinction
Ancient DNA in Conservation Biology
Forensics in Molecular Biology

2017

Conservation of Populations

Lecturer
Ancient DNA in Conservation Biology

2016

Quaternary Biology and Human Evolution

Lecturer
Introduction to Genetics
Testing phylogeographic models using ancient DNA

FIELD WORK

2015

Arctic Islands: Wrangel Island

A Swedish-Russian expedition to NE Siberia involving sampling of past and present biodiversity.

2015

Petermann 2015

A Swedish-American icebreaker-based expedition to Greenland and Canadas

2014

Arctic Fox Project

Monitoring the arctic fox population in Sweden

ACADEMIC MERITS

2022-present

Society member

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution; International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology, Society for Conservation Biology

2015-present

Reviewer for scientific journals

Nature Communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Scientific Reports, eLife, iScience, Genes, etc.

2016

Chair of the PhD Council

Department of Zoology, Stockholm University

2016

Executive Secretary

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Sweden

2016

Co-organizer of a workshop

PhD workshop "Science communication, networking, and time management" for 50 students at Stockholm University