Mgr. Michaela Ptáková, Ph.D.

Education

2011                Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia. Bc. in Archaeology (Bachelor Thesis "Characteristics of the End of the Mesolithic in Central Europe based on Findings of Artefactual and Environmental Archaeology.")

2014                Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia. Mgr. in Botany (Diploma Thesis "Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany: Central European Mesolithic.")

2021                Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia. Ph.D. in Archaeobotany (Dissertation "Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany: Central European Mesolithic.")

Professional career

2013 - present   Researcher, Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

2017 – 2019     Archaeobotanist at the Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Study and research stays

2010 – 2011     Erasmus study stay at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK (six months)

2017                research stay at Prof. Dr. Peter Poschlod, Institute of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine, University of Regensburg (one month)

2022                Erasmus+ stay at doc. Mgr. Mária Hajnalová, Ph.D., Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitře (one week)

Research participation

2012 – 2014     Neolithic Houses from Hrdlovka, NW Bohemia: Changing Shape and Changing Meaning, Czech Science Foundation No. P405/12/2173 (researcher)

2013 – 2015     PAPAVER Centre for human and plant studies in Europe and Northern Africa, PEE2.3.20.0289 (researcher)

2013 – 2015     Bioarcheologie jižních Čech GA JU 116/2013/P (researcher)

2013 – 2017     Prior to the Neolithic: Contextual Analysis of Environmental Dynamics During Early Postglacial Transformation of Central Europe, Czech Science Foundation No 13-08169S (researcher)

2017 – 2019     Late Holocene retrogression of forest ecosystems: Causes, processes and consequences for biodiversity, Czech Science Foundation No. 17-07851S (researcher)

2021 – 2023     At the fringe of the neolithization: strategies of the first farmers of South Bohemia, Czech Science Foundation No. 21-16614S (co-investigator)