Institution

  • Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.

Research interests

  • Spatial statistics,
  • stochastic geometry,
  • local stereology,
  • medical image analysis.

Foreign research stays

  • 08/2023 - 09/2023: National Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
  • 09/2019: Department of Mathematics, School of Technology and Experimental Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
  • 09/2018: Department of Mathematics, School of Technology and Experimental Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
  • 01/2016: Department of Management Science, School of Business Administration, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
  • 06/2014 - 07/2014: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
  • 01/2012 - 06/2012: Centre for Stochastic Geometry and Advanced Bioimaging, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Education

  • September 2014 - Ph.D. in Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics). Topic: Statistical inference for spatial and space-time Cox point processes. Supervisor: RNDr. Michaela Prokešová, Ph.D.
  • September 2010 - Master's degree in Probability, Mathematical Statistics and Econometry (Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics). Topic: Influence of injection dose and body parameters on PET image quality by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Supervisor: Mgr. Jiří Boldyš, Ph.D.

Grants, prices and scholarships

  • Best teachers award (MFF UK, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017) based on student evaluations.
  • Scholarship of the Mobility Fund of the Charles University in Prague (2023) supporting the research stay in Helsinki.
  • Project Introduction of the Active Learning approach to the exercise classes on Stochastic processes 2, 2019 - 2020.
  • Scholarship of the Mobility Fund of the Charles University in Prague (2015) supporting the research stay in Miami.
  • Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supporting the research stay in Augsburg (2014).
  • Outstanding student contribution award, ROBUST 2014, Jetřichovice, Czech Republic.
  • Student grant from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, 2013 - 2014. Příprava materiálů v anglickém jazyce ke cvičení předmětu Teorie pravděpodobnosti 1 (NMSA333) (Preparing english materials for exercises to Probability Theory 1).
  • Student grant from GA UK (the grant agency of the Charles University in Prague), 2013 - 2014. Dvoukrokové metody odhadu pro nehomogenní shot-noise Coxovy procesy - prostorové a časoprostorové (Two-step estimation methods for inhomogeneous shot-noise Cox processes - spatial and spatio-temporal).
  • Hans Elias bursary awarded by the ISS (the International Society for Stereology) for attending the 11th European Congress of Stereology and Image Analysis, Kaiserslautern, Germany, July 2013.
  • 2nd-3rd place in the Ph.D. student competition for the best contribution, ROBUST 2012, Němčičky, Czech Republic.
  • Scholarship of the Mobility Fund of the Charles University in Prague (2011) supporting the research stay in Aarhus.
  • Best diploma thesis 2010 award (awarded by the Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague).

Society membership and related activities

  • Organizing the Online Seminar on Spatial and spatio-temporal Point processes and beyond (OSSP) (since 2020)
  • Member of the Local Organizing Comittee of the conference Stereology, Spatial Statistics and Stochastic Geometry 2018
  • Guest editor of the special issue of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, related to the S4G 2018 conference.
  • Member of the Editorial board of the journal Applications of Mathematics (2017 - today)
  • Member of the Editorial board of the journal Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie (2016 - today)
  • The Spatial Statistics Society (2020 - today)
  • The Czech Statistical Society (2018 - today)
  • The Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists (2015 - today)
  • Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2011 - 2014)