Date and place of birth: 10th May 1980, Prague

Education:

• 1998–1999: Faculty of Modern Literature, University of Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
• 2000–2004: Undergraduate (Bachelor) at Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Humanities. B.A. in Humanities
• Summer term 2003: Faculty of Education, University of Patras, Greece (Scholarship awarded by Greek Government and Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic)
• Winter term 2003–2004: Faculty of Philology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (European Universities Mobility Programme SOCRATES-ERASMUS)
• Summer term 2005: Visiting Student at School of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Patras, Greece
• Summer term 2006: Faculty of Philosophy of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Scholarship awarded by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• 2005–2007: Graduate (Master) at Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts: M.A. in History and Anthropology of Latin America and Iberian Peninsula
• 2007–2010: Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University of Prague. Ph. D. in History of Latin America

Employment history

• 1999–2000: Editor at Večerník Praha and Deníky Bohemia newspapers
• 2001–2009: NGO worker: 2001–2002: People in Need Foundation in Prague (Člověk v tísni), Human Rights Project Coordinator; 2002–2003: Endowment Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust in Prague (NFOH – Nadační fond obětem Holokaustu), Staff Member of Individuals Compensation Programme; 2005–2006: Association for Probation and Mediation in Justice in Prague (SPJ - Sdružení pro probaci a mediaci v justici), Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Project Coordinator; 2007–2008: Fair Trade Hellas in Athens, Staff Member and Project Coordinator; 2008–2009: Ecumenical Academy of Prague (Ekumenická Akademie) , Raising Awareness on the Working Conditions and Environmental Pollution in the Production of Computers Project Coordinator.
• 2002–2010: Freelance translator and interpreter for Czech and foreign NGOs (Spanish, English, Modern Greek), Spanish and Modern Greek teacher
• 2011–to date: Researcher at the Oral History Center (Institute for Contemporary History), Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague

Specialization

History of Latin America, Czechoslovak Foreign Policy in Latin America in 20thcentury, Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain, Oral History.

Selected Publications

Articles

• Spolupráce tajných služeb Kuby a Československa ("Cooperation between the Secret Intelligence Agencies of Cuba and Czechoslovakia"). In: Dvacáté století/The Twentieth Century, Praha: FF UK, 2011, n. 1 – spring
• La participación interbrigadista checoslovaca en la Guerra de España vista por los protagonistas y los historiadores checos a través del tiempo ("The Czechoslovak Participation in the Spanish Civil War Seen by the Protagonists and Some Historians Over Time") In: IBEROAMERICANA PRAGENSIA Supplementum 22/2008, FF UK Praha 2009
• Españolotes checoslovacos - Intento de reconstrucción de algunos denominadores comunes de sus vidas ("Czechoslovak españolotes – An Attempt to Reconstruct Some Common Denominators of Their Lives"). In: IBEROAMERICANA PRAGENSIA Supplementum 20/2007, UK, Prague, 2008
• Dějiny partyzánské války ve Španělsku z perspektivy oral history ("History of Antifrancoist Guerrilla Resistance Movement in Spain in the Perspective of Oral History"). In: Antropoweb. Sborník mezinárodní studentské antropologické konference pořádané na FHS ZCU v Plzni ve dnech 4. a 5. 11. 2005 (Conference Proceedings from International Students´ Conference of Anthropology Organized in Pilsen at FHS ZCU on 4th and 5th November 2005). FHS ZCU, Pilsen, 2006
• Mañana España: Historia oral de la guerrilla antifranquista 1945–1952. ("Tomorrow Spain: Oral History of Antifrancoist Guerrilla 1945 – 1952") Praha, 2005 [Manuscript available at: http://www.premioibam.cz/cz/ganador2005.php]. The essay was awarded Premio Iberoamericano Prize in 2005

Books

• Czechoslovakia and Cuba in the Years 1959–1962 ("Czechoslovakia and Cuba in the Years 1959–1962"). Praha: FF UK (ed. Scholia), 2011.

Participation in Research Projects

• October 2004-January 2006: Research Project Checos y eslovacos en las Brigadas Internacionales (Czechs and Slovaks in the International Brigades) in cooperation with the Institute of Ibero-American Studies (SIAS) of Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University, Prague. Member of research group. In cooperation with the Association of Friends of the International Brigades (Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales - AABI) in Madrid, Spain. Project financed by the Assembly of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha.
• January 2009-January 2010: Research Project Czechoslovak-Cuban Economic Relations from 1960s to 1980s. Chief researcher. Project financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.