David Storch Short CV

	Center for Theoretical Study
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Rep., phone:+420-2-22220671, fax: +420-2-22220653, e-mail: office@cts.cuni.cz
David Storch, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of birth: June 18^th, 1970

Place of residence: Lublinská 572, CZ-181 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic

Employment (since 1998):

Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Praha
Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (part-time only)
joint appointment in Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Praha
joint appointment in Department of Ecology, Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc

Professional education:

1988 – 1993	Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague (Special biology and Ecology) Msc. Thesis: “Spatial aspects of bird community ecology”
1993 – 1998	PG study (Zoology) Ph.D. Thesis: “Spatial aspects of bird ecology in patchy environment”

Languages: Czech, English, Slovak, Russian

General interest: general and evolutionary ecology, community ecology, biodiversity, macroecology

Special research interest: habitat selection, spatial ecology and metapopulation dynamics, patterns and processes in patchy environment, environmental heterogeneity and beta diversity

Lectures and courses:

For Charles University, Prague:

Large-scale ecology
Common ecology and community ecology (together with Prof. Tomáš Herben)
Mathematic processing of zoological data (together with Prof. Ivan Horáček)
Quantitative methods in ornithology (together with Dr. Petr Musil)

For University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice:

For Palacký University, Olomouc:

Macroecology and diversity

Other professional experience:

since 1993 organization of weekly seminars “Thursdays in Viničná 7” in Faculty of Sciences, Charles University
since 1995 member of editorial board of journal Vesmír

Field experience:

Caucasus (1989), 5 weeks
Siberia, Lake Baikal (1992), 2 months
South-east Turkey (1996), 1 month
The Balkans (1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001), 1-4 weeks each year
South Africa (2001), 3 weeks

Conference contributions:

1993 Landscape and space (Prague, Czech Republic)
1995 9th Slovakian ornithological conference (Zvolen, Slovakia)
1996 10th Slovakian ornithological conference (Zvolen, Slovakia)
1997 1st Meeting of European Ornithological Union (Bologna, Italy)
1998 “Bird Numbers 1998, 14th International Conference of the European Bird Census Council" (Cottbus, Germany)
2000 “Limnology and Water Birds, Third Conference of Aquatic Birds Working Group of Societas Internationalis Limnologiae” (Třeboň, Czech Republic)
2001 Joint workshop of Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany)