prof. RNDr. Eva Zažímalová, CSc.

 

In 1979, she completed her studies at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague, in the field of chemistry with a specialisation in biochemistry. In 1983, she received the scientific degree of CSc. in the field of biology (physiology of plants) at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Institute of Experimental Botany). Since 1983, she has worked at the Institute of Experimental Botany (formerly the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, now the Academy of Sciences of the CR, v. v. i.) as a scientific employee and since 2012 also part-time at the Biology Centre of the CAS, v. v. i. Since 2004, she has led the Laboratory of Hormonal Regulation in Plants at the Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS. In 2003-2007, she was Deputy Director of the Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS; in 2007-2012, she was Director of this institute.

 

In 2004, she was named Leader , and in 2013 Professor for the field of the Anatomy and Physiology of Plants at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. She supervises students in MS and PhD studies and lectures in the advanced semester courses of the MS and PhD study programmes at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. She is a member of the Field Council of the Doctoral Study Programmes of "The Anatomy and Physiology of Plants" and "Biochemistry" at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and a member of the Field Council for the field of study "The Anatomy and Physiology of Plants" and the study programme "Botany" at the Faculty of Agronomy of Mendel University in Brno. She is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc. She has a significant share of responsibility for the organisation of several international symposia.

 

Eva Zažímalová deals with research of the phytohormone auxin - its metabolism and molecular mechanisms of its activity and transport in plant cells. She has been an investigator of many domestic and foreign projects, is the author or co-author of original scientific works published primarily in renowned international journals and chapters in specialised monographs. Without self-citations, her work has been cited more than 1400 x.