Date and place of birth: September 1, 1978, Pardubice, Czechoslovakia

Education:

• 1993-1997 Grammar school Pardubice
• 1997-1998 Faculty of Arts, Ostrava University
• 1998-2004 Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc – M.A. in history
• 2003 UFR d´histoire, Université Paris–Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris (ERASMUS intership)
• 2005 PhDr. in Czech History
• 2004-2009 Department of Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague – Ph.D. in Czech History

Employment history:

• 2002-2003: affiliate student researcher in grant project Political elites and dissent during the period of the so-called Normalization - Biographical Interview
• 2004-2005: Researcher in a grant project of Faculty of Arts Olomouc - Database of primary source-literature of 19th century world history and modern historiography
• 2006-to date: Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences CR, Prague
• 2007-to date: Secretary-General of the Czech Oral History Association
• 2008-to date: Lecturer on the Department of Oral History and Contemporary History, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
• 2008-to date: Vice-Chairman of Czech National Committee of Oral History
• 2008-2010: Member of the organizing committee of 16th IOHA Conference, Prague (July 7–11, 2010)

Specialisation:

Modern and contemporary history, history and memory, oral history.

Selected Publications:

• Naslouchat hlasům paměti: teoretické a praktické aspekty orální historie. ("Listening to the Voices of Memory: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Oral History"). Praha: ÚSD AV ČR – FHS UK, 2007. Co-author. 224 p. ISBN: 978-80-7285-089-1
• Obyčejní lidé...?! Pohled do života tzv. mlčící většiny. Životopisná vyprávění příslušníků dělnických profesí a inteligence. ("Ordinary People...?! An Insight into the Lives of the «Silent Majority». Biographical Narratives of Members of the Working Class and the Intelligentsia"). Praha: Academia, 2009. Co-author. 3 volumes, 1838 ps. ISBN: 978-80-200-1791-8