Education

• 2019: Habilitation in Mathematical Biology, University of Vienna
  
• 2005: Ph.D., Dep. of Zoology, Charles University, Prague: Competitive speciation: From clonal populations to genetic models
• 2001: MSc., Dep. of Ecology and Ethology, Charles University, Prague: Geometry of social relationships in the Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
• 1999: BSc., Biology, Charles University, Prague: Role of MHC in individual recognition

Academic and Research Appointments

• 2025 - present: Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
  University of Vienna
  
• 2025: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics,
  University of Vienna
• 2020 - 2024: Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
  University of Vienna
  
• 2019 - 2020: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology,
  Medical University of Vienna (1/2 time)
  
• 2015 - 2018: Postdoctoral research fellow (PI) at the Faculty of Mathematics,
  University of Vienna
• 2009 - 2014: Postdoctoral research fellow at the IST Austria
• 2007 - 2009: Postdoctoral research fellow at Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh
• 2006: Research fellow at the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague
• 2005 - 2006: Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Fundings and Scholarships

• 2025: Evolution of genetic variance in complex environments (FWF)
• 2019: Causes and consequences of population fragmentation (FWF)
  
• 2015: Evolutionary ecology of species' ranges (FWF), Elise Richter Programme
• 2004: Mobility Fund of Charles University, Prague

Research Interests

My research focuses on advancing theory to address fundamental questions in evolutionary
ecology and specifically, on the evolution of species’ ranges in the light of environmental change.
I employ both analytical and numerical treatments for models that combine population genetics with
ecological dynamics. In my recent pioneering work, I provided the first testable predictions for a collapse
of a species’ range, which arises froman intrinsic interplay between evolutionary and ecological dynamics.
I have also discovered the phenomenon of dynamic range fragmentation, and secured research funding
to study this interesting process in both static and changing environments. Lately, I have contributed to
epidemiological modelling of COVID-19, focusing on the situation in Austria: www.epimath.at.

Teaching Experience

• 2017 & 2018: Molecular Population Genetics: Making Sense of Sequence Data, University of Vienna (4 lectures: quantitive genetics)
• 2016: Modeling in Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna (6 lectures and creating the course)
  
• 2012: Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) Summer School, Pruhonice
• 2011: Contemporary molecular-genetic approaches in zoology and conservation genetics, Brno
• 2011: Evolutionary Genetics Summer School, IST Austria
• 2007: MSc. course in Population Genetics, University of Edinburgh
• 2004: HTML-CSS course for BSc. students of Environmental and Community Biology, University of Edinburgh

Talks (selected)

• 2025: 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)
• 2025: 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
• 2025: Population Genetics Group meeting, Sheffield (UK): On the evolution of genetic variance and the (lack of) benefits of phenotypic plasticity in changing environments
• 2024: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montreal (Canada): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments
• 2024: Holt [Robert D. Holt] Lab Seminar (online): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments (invited)
• 2024: Population Genetics Group meeting, Queen Mary University of London (UK): The effect of neighbourhood size on adaptation and resilience of populations in changing environments
• 2023: IEB Seminar, University of Edinburgh (UK): Coevolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments (invited)
• 2023: Population Genetics Group meeting, Queen Mary University of London (UK): Coevolution of range and niche in changing environments
• 2021: Evolution of Species Ranges, University of Gothenburg (Sweden, online): On species' range fragmentation (invited)
• 2018: 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
• 2018: Population Genetics Group meeting, Bristol (UK): Is the sky the limit? On the expansion threshold of a species’ range
• 2017: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen (Netherlands): Limits to a species’ range in two-dimensional habitats
• 2015: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lausanne (Switzerland): Coevolution of genetic variance and species’ range in a changing environment
• 2015: Congress of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Vienna (Austria): Limits to a species’ range in one- and two-dimensional habitats
• 2013: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Lisbon (Portugal): When does genetic drift prevent expansion of a species’ range?
• 2010: Cambridge (UK), Newton Institute (invited): Special workshop: Evolutionary dynamics of structured populations. Adaptation in continuous populations with migration and genetic drift
• 2003: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Leeds (UK): Speciation in asexual populations in sympatry and parapatry

 Supervised Theses

• PhD students:
  
  • 2020-2024: 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)
    
• MSc students:
  • 2023 – present: Mariana Prud’Homme (co-advisor Florin Boenkost, University of Vienna): Coexistence of two types with stochasticity and migration
    (University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
  • 2023 – 2025: Dominik Eichler (co-advisor Martin Šmíd, Charles University, Prague): Comparing COVID-19 vaccination scenarios using the momentum model (University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
  • 2021-2022: Alina Kadluba: Variance effective population size (University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
  • 2021-2022: Pia Hofer: The structured coalescent and the coalescence effective population size (University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
  • 2016-2018: Hanja Pisa (co-supervised by J. Hermisson): The influence of fluctuating population densities on evolutionary dynamics (University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics)
  • 2009-2011: Pavel Payne: The role of genetic variance in speciation (Charles University, Prague, Department of Theoretical Biology)

Other Experience

• Editor for journals: Associate Editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, JEB (2025–present)
  

• Symposia organization: 

  • 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 (organized together with Radka Storchova, 2010)
• Referee for:
  • 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).

List of publications

An updated list of publications is available on Google Scholar.