People

Director of CTS, director of the university section

Petr Pokorný

Pokorný, Petr (director) [detail]

Biologist. He is interested in quaternary paleoecology, development of vegetation and landscape.

email: pokorny@cts.cuni.cz

Head of academic section

Jan Frei

Frei, Jan (co-director) [detail]

Philosopher. Head of the Jan Patočka Archive, co-editor of the Collected Works of Jan Patočka.

email: frei@cts.cuni.cz

Members of CTS

Michal Ajvaz II

Ajvaz, Michal [detail]

Philosopher and writer.

email: ajvaz@cts.cuni.cz

Václav Cílek

Cílek, Václav [detail]

Geologist and essayist.

email: cilek@gli.cas.cz

Eiseltová, Martina

Head of Finance and Administration. She is also a member of the Czech Ramsar Committee and National Focal Point of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel of the Ramsar Convention.

email: eiseltova@cts.cuni.cz

Eliška Fulínová

Fulínová, Eliška [detail]

Philosopher. Phenomenology and ancient Greek philosophy.

email: fulinova@cts.cuni.cz

Tomáš Gavenčiak

Gavenčiak, Tomáš [detail]

heoretical computer scientist. He works on complex existential risks and long-term security of artificial intelligence.

email: gavenciak@cts.cuni.cz

Radan Haluzík

Haluzík, Radan [detail]

Social anthropologist. His fields of interest include current ethnic conflicts and nationalism, the relation between politics and aesthetics and the social life of things.

email: haluzik@cts.cuni.cz

Jan Hošek

Hošek, Jan [detail]

Geologist. Studies geological record of the Quaternary period.

email: johan.hosek@gmail.com

Marek Hudík

Hudík, Marek [detail]

Economist. He is interested in Economics, Decision theory, Game Theory, Philosophy of Science.

email: hudik@cts.cuni.cz

Ivan Chvatík

Chvatík, Ivan [detail]

Philosopher, phenomenologist. Founder and director of the Jan Patočka Archives, he leads editing of Jan Patočka´s works.

email: chvatik@cts.cuni.cz

Zdeněk Konopásek

Konopásek, Zdeněk [detail]

Sociologist. His main field is science and technology studies, where he focuses on complicated relations between science and politics, expertise and democracy.

email: konopasek@cts.cuni.cz | website: http://zdenek.konopasek.net

Roman Kotecký

Kotecký, Roman [detail]

Mathematical physicist. He is interested in physics and mathematics of phase transitions.

email: kotecky@cts.cuni.cz

Pavel Kouba

Kouba, Pavel [detail]

Philosopher. He is inspired by Husserl´s and Heidegger´s phenomenology. He focuses on current problems of phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy.

email: koubap@cts.cuni.cz

Petr Kůrka

Kůrka, Petr [detail]

Mathematician. His main focus is in complexity of dynamic systems, symbolic dynamics, cellular automata and number systems.

email: kurka@cts.cuni.cz | website: http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~kurka

Anna Michalík Kvíčalová

Kvíčalová, Anna [detail]

The study of religions.

email: kvicalova@cts.cuni.cz

Langerová, Veronika

email: langerova@cts.cuni.cz

Jan Makovský

Makovský, Jan [detail]

Philosopher, historian of science, focuses on the question of continuity and infinity, especially in the thought of the early modern period.

email: makovsky@cts.cuni.cz

Alexander Matoušek

Matoušek, Alexander [detail]

Art historian, philosopher. He is interested in phenomonology, religious studies, art theory and history.

email: matousek@cts.cuni.cz

Hana Chmelová

Matysková, Hana [detail]

On maternity leave.

email: chmelova@cts.cuni.cz

Mottl, Ondřej [detail]

Researcher with a main focus on quantitative ecology, macroecology, palaeoecology, and community ecology with an interest in data science. Currently working on developing state-of-the-art tools to study global biodiversity patterns and lowering the barriers to scientific exploration.

email: mottl@cts.cuni.cz

Karolína Pauknerová

Pauknerová, Karolína [detail]

Anthropologist and archaeologist.

email: pauknerova@cts.cuni.cz

Pavlovičová, Soňa

email: pavlovicova@cts.cuni.cz

Cyril Říha

Říha, Cyril [detail]

Architectural theorist and philosopher. He specialises in the study of contemporary cities.

email: riha@cts.cuni.cz

Jan Smyčka

Smyčka, Jan [detail]

Evolutionary biologist. He is particularly interested in the processes of emergence and disappearance of biological species, their ranges and ecological characteristics.

email: smycka@cts.cuni.cz

David Storch

Storch, David [detail]

Biologist and ecologist. He is interested in macroecology, biodiversity and evolutionary ecology.

email: storch@cts.cuni.cz | website: http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~storch/

Irena Šímová

Šímová, Irena [detail]

Biologist, namely ecologist and botanist. Her research concerns mechanisms generating species richness patterns at various spatial scales.

email: simova@cts.cuni.cz

Arnošt Šizling

Šizling, Arnošt L. [detail]

Biologist and ecologist.

email: sizling@cts.cuni.cz

Ladislava Švandová

Švandová, Ladislava [detail]

Archivist of the Jan Patočka Archive, editor of Patočka´s collected works.

email: ladka@cts.cuni.cz

Tomáš Telenský

Telenský, Tomáš [detail]

Ornithologist and ecologist. Focuses on population ecology of birds, namely demography, drivers of population declines and increases in birds and spatial modelling of their distribution.

Anna Tószögyová

Tószögyová, Anna [detail]

Biologist and ecologist. She is concerned with macroecological patterns.

email: toszogyova@cts.cuni.cz

Petr Tureček

Tureček, Petr [detail]

Evolutionary biologist. He is mainly interested in the evolution of culture.

email: petr.turecek@natur.cuni.cz

Jan Turek

Turek, Jan [detail]

Archaeologist focusing on the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods. Secretary of CTS.

email: turek@cts.cuni.cz