2019
2005

2001

1999

Habilitation in Mathematical Biology, University of Vienna
Ph.D., Dep. of Zoology, Charles University, Prague: Competitive speciation: From clonal populations to genetic models
MSc., Dep. of Ecology and Ethology, Charles University, Prague: Geometry of social relationships in the Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
BSc., Biology, Charles University, Prague: Role of MHC in individual recognition

2025-present

2025

2020-2024

2019 - 2020

2015 - 2018

2009 - 2014
2007 - 2009
2006
2005 - 2006

Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Vienna
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Vienna
Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Vienna
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology,
Medical University of Vienna (1/2 time)
Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Vienna
Postdoctoral research fellow at the IST Austria
Postdoctoral research fellow at Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh
Research fellow at the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague
Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2025

2019

2015

2004

Evolution of genetic variance in complex environments
Principal Investigator Projects (FWF)
Causes and consequences of population fragmentation
Principal Investigator Projects (FWF)
Evolutionary ecology of species' ranges
Elise Richter Programme (FWF)
Mobility Fund of Charles University, Prague

2024

2022-present

2017 & 2018

2016

2012

2011

2011

2007

2004

Evolution and Ecology for BSc Science program
Charles University, Prague
Modeling in Evolutionary Ecology and Epidemiology
University of Vienna
Molecular Population Genetics: Making Sense of Sequence Data
University of Vienna (4 lectures: quantitive genetics)
Modeling in Evolutionary Ecology
University of Vienna (6 lectures and creating the course)
Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) Summer School
Pruhonice
Contemporary molecular-genetic approaches 
in zoology and conservation genetics, Brno
Evolutionary Genetics Summer School
IST Austria
MSc. course in Population Genetics
University of Edinburgh
HTML-CSS course for BSc. students of Environmental and Community Biology
University of Edinburgh

2025


2025


2025

2024

2024

2024


2023

2023

2021

2018


2018

2017

2015


2015

2013

2010


2003

Evolutionary Rescue Workshop – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Experiments, Plön (Germany): Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments can drive range fragmentation (invited)
Conference of the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology, Chicago (USA): Adaptation in spatially and temporally varying environments: evolution of genetic variance and range fragmentation
Population Genetics Group meeting, Sheffield (UK): On the evolution of genetic variance and the (lack of) benefits of phenotypic plasticity in changing environments
3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montreal (Canada): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments
Holt [Robert D. Holt] Lab Seminar (online): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments (invited)
Population Genetics Group meeting, Queen Mary University of London (UK): The effect of neighbourhood size on adaptation and resilience of populations in changing environments
IEB Seminar, University of Edinburgh (UK): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments (invited)
Population Genetics Group meeting, Queen Mary University of London (UK): Coevolution of range and niche in changing environments
Evolution of Species Ranges, University of Gothenburg (Sweden; online): On species’ range fragmentation (invited)
II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier (France): Coevolution of species’ geographic range and ecological niche in a changing environment: On the interaction between selection, drift, and gene flow
Population Genetics Group meeting, Bristol (UK): Is the sky the limit? On the expansion threshold of a species’ range
Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen (Netherlands): Limits to a species’ range in two-dimensional habitats
Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lausanne (Switzerland): Coevolution of genetic variance and species’ range in a changing environment
Congress of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Vienna (Austria): Limits to a species’ range in one- and two-dimensional habitats
Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lisbon (Portugal): When does genetic drift prevent expansion of a species’ range?
Cambridge (UK), Newton Institute (invited): Special workshop: Evolutionary dynamics of structured populations. Adaptation in continuous populations with migration and genetic drift
Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Leeds (UK): Speciation in asexual populations in sympatry and parapatry

PhD students

2020-2024

MSc students

2023-present


2023-2025


2021-2022


2021-2022


2016-2018


2009-2011

Oluwafunmilola Olusanya (co-advisors Nick Barton, IST Austria and
Himani Sachdeva, University of Vienna)
Polygenic adaptation in a metapopulation under stabilizing selection 
(IST Austria and University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)

Mariana Prud’Homme (co-advisor Florin Boenkost, University of Vienna)
Coexistence of two types with stochasticity and migration
(University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
Dominik Eichler (co-advisor Martin Šmíd, Charles University, Prague)
Comparing COVID-19 vaccination scenarios using the momentum model
(University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
Alina Kadluba
Variance effective population size
(University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
Pia Hofer
The structured coalescent and the coalescence effective population size
(University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
Hanja Pisa (co-supervised by J. Hermisson):
The influence of fluctuating population densities on evolutionary dynamics
(University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
Pavel Payne
The role of genetic variance in speciation
(Charles University, Prague, Department of Theoretical Biology)

Editor for Journals
Symposia organization






Referee for

Associate editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, JEB (2025–present)
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in changing environments: 
insights from models, experiments and case studies 
at the Congress of the European Society for 
Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Prague (2022);
Frontiers of speciation: Evolution of reproductive isolation: 
models and empirical evidence meeting, 
Prague (organised together with Radka Storchova, 2010) 
Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, Evolution, Heredity, Journal of Evolutionary Biology (reviewer board 2011-2017), Nature Communications, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Molecular Ecology, , PLoS Genetics, PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, European Physics Journal B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Theoretical Population Biology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Grant reviewer for: NWO (Netherlands), Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Marsden Fund (New Zealand).