Curriculum Vitae
Date and place of birth: 17th August 1980, Poprad, Slovak Republic
Education
• Period 2018
• Degree Habilitation in Ecology
• Institution Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Department of ecology and environmental sciences
• Thesis: Ecology of spider parasitoids: koinobiont ectoparasitoids from Polysphincta genus group (Ichneumonidae, Ephialtini) (1st November 2018)
• Period 2006 – 2010
• Degree Ph.D. in Ecology
• Institution Masaryk University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science
• Thesis: Tritrophic relationships of arboreal spiders (defence of Ph.D. thesis – 7th September 2010)
• Period 2004 – 2006
• Degree M.Sc.
• Institution Matej Bel University, Faculty of Natural Science, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
• Thesis Ecological-zoogeographic analyse of spiders (Araneae) of the massif Panský diel (Central Slovakia)
• Period 2001 – 2004
• Degree B.A.
• Institution Matej Bel University, Faculty of Natural Science, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
• Thesis Spiders (Araneae) as model organisms in biomonitoring and nature conservation
Work experiences
• Period 2010 – present
• Activity Research assistant, pedagogue from 2013
• Institution Department of Agroecology and Biometeorology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague 6, Suchdol, Czech Republic, contact person: prof. Josef Soukup, soukup@af.czu.cz
• Period 2007 – 2012
• Activity Research assistant
• Institution Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic, contact person: prof. Stano Pekár, pekar@sci.muni.cz
• Period 2006 – 2007
• Activity Research assistant
• Institution Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic, contact person: prof. Emanuel Kula, kula@mendelu.cz
Research interest
My work area is behavioural ecology and relative disciplines. I concentrate on behaviour, foraging, predator-prey interaction, host-parasitoid interaction and spider potential in bioindication and pest suppression. I work on relationship between spiders and their environment (habitat association and response to human activities e.g. management, pesticide treatment). I study tritrophic relationships in system spider-prey-parasitoid. This includes relationships between spiders and parasitoids (e.g. host preference, host manipulation), between spiders and prey (e.g. prey preference, pest suppression) and among spiders each other (e.g. intraguild predation, competition). I try to solve both, the basic ecological problems and the practical ecological problems in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
- h-index WoS: 15 (Source: WOS, 2022)
Scientific society memberships
SARAS (Slovak Arachnological Society)
ESA (Europea Society of Arachnology)
CAS (Czech Arachnological Society)
SZO (Slovak Zoological Society)
Associate Editor in Frontiers in Arachnids - Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Stays and field experiences (v. 2017)
2016 – 2017 – Israel, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, laboratory of prof. Yeal Lubin – two one week stays (30th March – 6th April 2016 and 30th March – 5th April 2017).
2008 – 2017 – Portugal, Central and South territories, collaboration with laboratory of prof. S. Pekár, Masaryk University and Universidade de Évora – research of ground dwelling spiders and their parasitoids – nine one-week field stays.
2014 – Italy, Piemonte region, Torino, Università di Torino, laboratory of dr. Marco Isaia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi – research of parasitoids of arboreal spiders – one-week stay (27th October – 1st November).
2013 – Australia, Brisbane, University of Queensland, laboratory of prof. Gimme Walter, School of Biological Sciences (1st July – 28th November).
2013 – South Africa, University of Free State in Bloemfontein, laboratory of dr. Charles Haddad (3rd March – 17th March 2013).
2012 – Italy, Piemonte region, Torino, Università di Torino, laboratory of dr. Marco Isaia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi – research of parasitoids of arboreal spiders – one-week stay (29th October – 3rd November).
2012 – Spain, Malaga and Granada – collaboration of laboratory of prof. S. Pekár, Masaryk University – research of ground dwelling spiders and their parasitoids – one-week field stay.
2011 – Italy, Piemonte region, Torino, Università di Torino, laboratory of Dr. Marco Isaia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi – research of parasitoids of arboreal spiders – one-week stay (1st November – 6th November).
2010 – Italy, Piemonte region, Torino, Università di Torino, laboratory of Dr. Marco Isaia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi – funded by European Science Foundation, Framework of thermal adaptation in ectotherms: linking life history, physiology, behaviour and genetics – one-week stay (25th October – 30th October).
2009 – Italy, Piemonte region, Torino, Università di Torino, laboratory of Dr. Marco Isaia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi – research of parasitoids of arboreal spiders – one-week stays (30th October – 7th November).
