2000 - PhD in Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno 1997-present - researcher (since 2009 group leader) at Institute of Vertebrate Biology CAS, Brno 2004-2006 - post-doc, CBGP Montferrier sur Lez, France 2018 - guest researcher, CIBIO/InBio Porto, Portugal 2003-present - Masaryk University in Brno (since 2009 as associate professor, 2021 as full professor) Research interests: - evolutionary history, phylogeography, speciation, adaptation, phylogeny and systematics (mainly of small mammals), - biogeography, distribution of biodiversity in Africa, - molecular ecology of vertebrates (interactions between neutral and adaptive genetic variation, conservation genetics, immunogenetics), - ecology of mammals (population dynamics, structure of communities).