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Curriculum Vitae

Personal details
  • Axmanová, Irena (born as Veselá, Irena)
  • Researcher ID: ORCID: 0000-0001-9440-7976, Scopus Author ID: 36602224400
  • Date of birth: 3. 12. 1982, Czech nationality
  • Married, two daughters (born September 2012 and August 2014).
  • https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irena-Axmanova
Department
  • Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Current position
  • Assistant professor
Education
  • 2012: PhD in Biology (Botany), thesis: The effect of productivity and other environmental factors on the forest herb-layer diversity. Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D. Defence date: 12. 4. 2012, grade A.
  • 2007: Master's degree in biology (Botany; and Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology), thesis: Natural and semi-natural vegetation of the Vizovice Hills. (in Czech, published later as a manuscript) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D.
Previous positions
  • 2007 – 2022 (incl. maternity and parental leave 2012–2017)
    Researcher, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
Teaching Activities
  • Lecturer:
    Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
    2007 – Field course of botany (4–5 days), Field course of systematic botany (5 days); break during maternity leave (2013–2017)
    2007 – 2011 Higher plant phylogeny and diversity - practical course; semestral
    2022 – System of angiosperms; semestral course
    2023 Maps in R (workshop for students)
    2023 Selected topics in ecology: Tidy data in R; block lecture
    2023 – Data analysis in community ecology; semestral course
  • Supervision:
    3 Bachelor (1 defended),
    2 PhD students (1 main supervisor and 1 as a co-supervisor)
Memberships of scientific societies
  • 2008 – Member, Czech Botanical Society (ČBS, https://botanospol.cz/en)
  • 2008 – Member, European Vegetation Survey (EVS, http://euroveg.org/)
  • 2011 – Member, Czech Society for Ecology (ČSPE, https://www.cspe.cz/en/)
  • 2021 – Member, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS, https://www.iavs.org/)
    Within IAVS, I was elected as a Council member in 2023, and recently also as a Vice President of the IAVS for a four-year period.
Internship
  • Research stay abroad Universität Bremen, Germany, prof. Martin Diekmann, February-May 2009, DAAD scholarship for young scientists
Organisation of scientific meetings
  • 2022: Member of the local organising committee. Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Large scale protection and restoration of biodiversity. 2.–3. 4. 2022, Brno, Czechia.   150 participants
  • 2011: Member of organising committee. Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: PhD inspirations in botany II. 26–27.11.2011, Prague, Czechia. 135 participants
  • 2008: Member of the local organising committee. 17th International Workshop of European Vegetation Survey: Using phytosociological data to address ecological questions. 1.–5. 5. 2008, Brno, Czech Republic.   100 participants
Institutional responsibilities
  • 2022 – Member of a committee for bachelor state exams (programme Ecology and evolutionary biology), Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
  • 2020 – Member of Working group for HR Award, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Reviewing activities and Editorial board
  • 2008 – Department Review Board for student theses, so far 7 bachelor theses and 8 master theses, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia (break during maternity leave)
  • 2012 – Reviewer (for 10 international scientific journals so far), including Global Change Biology, Oikos
  • 2022 – Editorial Review Board, Applied Vegetation Science journal
  • 2023 – Editor of the IAVS Bulletin

2023/11/06

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