Petr Koutecký – CV

Born 1978, Ostrava

Married, 3 children

 

Employment

  • since 2008 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
  • 2007–2008 scientist (part-time), Dept. of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia

Education

  • 2003–2008 Ph.D. study, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological sciences / Faculty of Science (Ph. D. thesis: Taxonomic study of Centaurea sect. Jacea in Central Europe (partly in Czech); supervisor: RNDr. Jan Štěpánek CSc.)
  • 2000–2003 Mgr. study, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological sciences (thesis: Taxonomic study of the Centaurea phrygia group in the Czech Republic (in Czech); supervisor RNDr. Jan Štěpánek CSc.)
  • 1997–2000 Bc. study, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological sciences (thesis: Regeneration of meadows in the alluvium of Morava River after a catastrophic flood in 1997 (in Czech); supervisor prof. RNDr. Karel Prach, CSc.)

Short-time research stays

  • Vienna, Austria; herbaria W a WU (2005, 2008)
  • Budapest, Hungary, herbarium BP (2005, 2007)
  • Cluj-Napoca, Romania, herbarium CL (2008)
  • the Netherlands, vegetation mapping (1999)

Foreign botanical excursions

  • The Carpathians, the Alps, the Mediteranean (many times)  – Romania (outside the Carpathians, 2012, 2015), Ukraine (outside the Carpathians, 2018) – Hungary (2001, 2019) – Lithuania (2004), Nowrway + Sweden (1998), Norway (2003), Finland (2001, 2007), Russia (the Kola Peninsula; 2004) – the Pyrenees (2011, 2019) – Canary Islands (2003, 2005) – Turkey (2000, 2011), Georgia (2011) – Russia (the Baikal Lake and surroundings, 2013), Kazakhstan (mainly the Altaj Mts; 2006), India (Ladakh, the Himalayas, 2014)

Other interests

  • Biological olympiad (competition for high school students in biology; author for categories A, B 1998–2008, since then external collaboration)
  • Photography
  • Travelling (mainly to mountains)

Proffesional memberships

  • The Czech Botanical Society (since 1997)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Folia Geobotanica (for taxonomy)
  • Associate Editor of Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Systematics and Evolution
  • Editorial board of Preslia
  • Editorial board of Sborník jihočeského muzea (Bulletin of South-Bohemian Museum, in Czech)