*30.9.1978, Ostrava

Contact

• Address: University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Branišovská 1760, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czechia
• Rooms: Department of Botany, Na Zlaté stoce 1 ("Villa"), room 304 (herbarium - attic)
  Laboratory of plant molecular biology, Branišovská 31 - Faculty of Science, building A, rooms 104-106 (ground floor)
• E-mail: kouta@prf.jcu.cz
• Tel.: +420 38 777 2377 (herbarium)
  +420 38 777 2271, +420 38 777 2362 (laboratory)

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

Research interests

• Plant taxonomy / biosystematics (Centaurea, Ranunculus sect. Batrachium, Odontites, Salix, etc.)
• Hybridization, polyploidy and their interactions
• Morphological (phenotype) plasticity
• Flow cytometry and molecular methods in plant systematics
• Distribution mapping, determination literature
• Aquatic plants
• Flora of villages (human settlements in general)
• Member of the Czech Botanical Society (since 1997)

Education history

• 2003–2008 Ph.D. study, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological sciences / Faculty of Science (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), herbaria BP (2005, 2007)
• Cluj-Napoca (Romania), herbarium CL (2008)
• Netherlands, vegetation mapping (1999)

Foreign botanical excursions

• The Carpathians (Slovakia) a the Alps (multiple times), Ukraine (1995, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2017), Romania (2005, 2008, 2012) – Hungary (2001) – Lithuania (2004), Norway and Sweden (1998, 2003), Finland (2001, 2007, 2017), Russia (Kola Peninsula 2004, Baikal Lake 2013) – Greece (1999, 2017), Turkey (2000, 2011), France (2016); Spain + Portugal (2002, 2015, 2016), the Pyrenees (2011), Corsica (2006), Monte Negro (2007); Sicily (2009); Georgia (2011) – Canary Islands (2003, 2005) – Kazakhstan (mainly the Altai Mts.; 2006), the Himalayas (Ladakh, India 2014)