Radim Hédl
Born 8 August 1976 in Jeseník, Czech Republic
Resident: Brno, Czech Republic
Education
1991–1995: secondary school in Jeseník
1995–1998 (Bc.): Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague; thesis
1996–2003 (MgA.): Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Studio of Painting
1998–2001 (Mgr.): Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague; thesis
2001–2005 (PhD.): Department of Geology and Pedology, Mendel University, Brno; thesis
Stays abroad
2000: Institute of Botany, Innsbruck University, Austria, Aktion-scholarship; six months
2001: Institute of Botany, Aarhus University, Denmark, Erasmus-scholarship; six months
2011: Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, Brunei Darussalam, Research Fellowship; nine months
2012: Marshall University (F.S. Gillam), USA, Fulbright Research Fellowship; six months
Employment
May 2004–present: Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Head of the Department of Vegetation Ecology, 2006–present.
Science
my profile at Google Scholar
Teaching
Supervisor of 7 undergraduate students (bachelor and/or master) and 4 postgraduate students, universities in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic. Consultations for other than supervised students.
Ecology of tropics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University, Brno.
Membership (more or less regular)
Czech Botanical Society
British Ecological Society
International Association for Vegetation Science
European Society for Environmental History
Czech Society for Ecology
Community services
Associate Editor of Folia Geobotanica (since 2006), journal of the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, indexed at WOS
Long-Term Ecological Research – member of the Czech National Committee; www.lter.cz
National Forestry Program in the Czech Republic (since 2009); www.uhul.cz/nlp/
member of the Coordination Board
member of the working group for the key action “Biodiversity”
Organization of conferences:
Diversity, dynamics and management of forest vegetation; Czech Botanical Society, Prague, 2008.
Trends in Research and Teaching of Historical Ecology in Central Europe; Central European University, Budapest, 2007.
Experience abroad
Working
2003: Ecuador, one month
2005: Chile, cooperation on project of the study of vegetation and soils of alluvial deposits, one month
2007: Brunei Darussalam, inventory of a 1-ha permanent Mixed Dipeterocarp forest plot in the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, half-month
2007: Ukraine, Transcarpathian region, sampling of alpine vegetation of Pop Ivan in Marmarosh, one month
2009: Brunei Darussalam, Kuala Belalong
2011: Brunei Darussalam, nine months
2012: USA, six months
2013: Brunei Darussalam, Kuala Belalong
Travelling
2000: SW China (Yunnan, Sichuan), Thailand, Laos
2002: Tibet and Nepal
2004: Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo), Thailand
2007: Malaysia (Borneo) and Indonesia (Java)
2008: SW China (Guangxi, Yunnan)
2009: Malaysia (Sarawak)
2010: Turkey (Kackar)
2010: Indonesia (Sulawesi)
last updated 22 March 2013