Short bio

Jaroslav Havlík is an associate professor (docent) at the Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, where he leads the Agromics research group. His work applies NMR and LC-MS/MS metabolomics to food quality, authenticity and safety, to the metabolism of dietary polyphenols by the gut microbiota, and to pollinator health and the honey bee gut microbiome. The group operates a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer and an LC-QTOF MS/MS platform and provides metabolomics services to academic and commercial partners.

He was awarded his Ph.D. in Agriculture in 2007 and habilitated in 2013, and has worked at the University of Glasgow as a research assistant. He is the author of more than 120 publications in international journals (h-index 29), has co-led national and European projects including H2020 HEDIMED, and has participated in several COST Actions — POSITIVe (FA1403), UNGAP (CA16205) and, most recently, INFOGUT (CA23110).

Contact: havlik@af.czu.cz · ORCID 0000-0003-1900-0951 · Google Scholar

Curricullum Vitae (2026)

doc. Ing. Jaroslav Havlík, Ph.D.

Associate Professor · Head of the Agromics research group at the Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic

havlik@af.czu.cz · +420 224 382 965 · ORCID 0000-0003-1900-0951 · ResearcherID F-3371-2011 · Google Scholar

Research focus

Agricultural and analytical metabolomics (¹H NMR, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS) and chemometrics; food quality, authenticity and safety; metabolism of dietary polyphenols and interactions with the human gut microbiome; clinical and nutritional metabolomics; pollinator health and the honey bee gut microbiome, including lactic acid bacteria as probiotic and fermentation candidates.

Education

• 2013 — Associate Professor (docent), Agricultural Chemistry, CZU Prague (habilitation)
• 2007 — Ph.D., Agriculture, CZU Prague (supervisor: prof. Ladislav Kokoška)
• 2002 — Ing. (M.Sc.), CZU Prague

Academic positions

• 2013 – present — Associate Professor and leader of the Agromics group, Department of Food Science, FAPPZ, CZU Prague
• University of Glasgow, United Kingdom — research assistant; polyphenol catabolism and human colonic fermentation, with continuing collaboration
• 2007 – 2013 — Assistant Professor, CZU Prague
• Research training: University of Nottingham (UK), University of Aveiro (PT), Wageningen University (NL)

Grant projects — principal investigator

• 2026 – 2030 · QL26010035 (NAZV, Ministry of Agriculture) — New methods for the suppression of microbial infections of honey bees: development of a host-targeted next-generation synbiotic from immune-active bifidobacteria and lactobacilli
• 2025 – 2028 · LUC25100 (MŠMT, INTER-COST) — Bioactivation of dietary polyphenols in the human distal digestive tract
• 2021 – 2025 · QK21010088 (NAZV, Ministry of Agriculture) — Development of a probiotic-based preparation supporting honey bee immunity, its production technology and food use of the by-product
• 2019 – 2021 · LTC19008 (MŠMT, INTER-COST) — Absorption and metabolism of plant phenylpropanoid drugs in the gastrointestinal tract

Co-investigator and team member (selection)

• 2023 – 2025 · GA23-04655S (GAČR) — the role of prenylation and glycosylation in the anti-inflammatory activity and metabolism of natural phenolics
• 2021 – 2025 · NU21-01-00085 (AZV) — effect of a low-carbohydrate diet on type 1 diabetes control and the development of islet autoimmunity
• 2019 – 2023 · QK1910209 (NAZV) — production of medicinal mushrooms and their application in functional foods
• 2019 – 2021 · QK1920222 (NAZV) — new methods for detecting adulteration of goat and sheep milk and dairy products
• 2016 – 2019 · GA16-07193S (GAČR) — anti-inflammatory activity of selected stilbenes, 2-arylbenzofurans and their metabolites
• 2016 – 2018 · QJ1610248 (NAZV) — honey bee longevity in sustainable beekeeping; QJ1530148 (NAZV) — management of Varroa destructor resistance to acaricides
• 2015 – 2018 · QJ1510136 (NAZV) — protein nutrition of monogastric animals based on white lupin
• 2012 – 2016 · QJ1210047 (NAZV) — new preparations supporting honey bee immunity; QJ1210093 (NAZV) — new methods for the production and quality control of probiotic foods

International projects

• H2020 HEDIMED — Human Exposomic Determinants of Immune Mediated Diseases — CZU partner representative, coordination of metabolomics analyses

Participation in COST Actions

• CA23110 INFOGUT (2024 – 2028) — In vitro models of the gut microbiota: harmonisation, optimisation and dissemination — working group member
• CA16205 UNGAP (2017 – 2022) — European Network on Understanding Gastrointestinal Absorption-related Processes — linked national project LTC19008
• FA1403 POSITIVe (2015 – 2019) — Interindividual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives and determinants involved

Teaching and supervision

Guarantor of two study programmes at CZU. Teaches Quality of Plant-Based Products, Chemometrics, Sustainability in the Food Chain, and the Bachelor Seminar. Supervisor of eight Ph.D. students and of more than 80 bachelor's and master's theses.

Knowledge transfer

Co-founder of Terpenix s.r.o., a CZU spin-off company commercialising research in the biological protection of plants, stored agricultural products and foods, and providing contract research to the commercial sector.

Bibliometrics

124 publications indexed in Web of Science · ~2,571 WoS citations · h-index 29 · 3,629 citations on Google Scholar

Memberships

In the past member of the The Nutrition Society and Phytochemical Society of Europe.