Mgr. Petr Keil, Ph.D.

Petr Keil studied zoology at University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. He then worked on acoustic behavior of crickets at University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD in macroecology at Department of Ecology, Charles University. Besides, he spent some time at University of Leeds where he studied neutral models of biodiversity and problem of scale in geographical ecology. Since 2011 he has been working at Yale University where he explores global patterns of biodiversity and he develops novel Bayesian methods to analyze spatially-explicit data.

Petr Keil has cooperated with CTS since 2010. In 2012 he was awarded three-years Marie Curie fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF Proposal 302868 WORLDIVERSITY) which is now administered in cooperation between CTS and Yale University, USA.