Ing. Miroslav Prokeš, CSc.

Position: research scientist
Research topics: ontogeny and fish ecology
Department: Department of Fish Ecology
Phone: +420 543 422 528
E-mail: prokesbrno.cas.cz

Education:

1965–1970 Mendel university of agriculture and forestry in Brno, Department of fisheries and hydrobiology, specialization fisheries and hydrobiology, graduate thesis: „Influence of electric current in chub, Leuciscus cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) under aspect of electrofishing“.

Professional career:

1970-1986 Institute of vertebrate zoology CSAV in Brno, Ph.D. (1978), thesis: „Production biology and bionomy of the main fish species fry in the Rokytná Stream“;

1986-1993 Institute of systematic and ecological biology CSAV in Brno (the succession institute);

1993-1998 Institute of landscape ecology AS CR in Brno (the succession institute);

1998-present Institute of vertebrate biology AS CR, v.v.i. in Brno, Ichtyological department (the succession institute).

Profession experience:

ichthyology, mainly ecology, morphology and early ontogeny of fish

Projects

Development of new methods of rearing selected promising species for aquaculture using non-traditional technologies

Development of new technologies of rearing commercially important riverine species of fish and crayfish endangered by environment degradation

Harmonization with the EU in application of the principles of pharmacovigilancy in aquaculture in the Czech Republic