Position:
scientist
Branch:
Department of Climate Variability and Climate Change Analysis
Workplace:
ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.
Bělidla 4a
Brno
603 00
Email:
chroma.k@czechglobe.cz
Research Focus
historical climatology; hydrometeorological extremes and their impacts; documentary evidence; instrumental meteorological series; statistical analysis and homogenisation of instrumental meteorological series; climate variability in the Czech Republic
Education
- Ph.D.: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Physical geography (2002-2006), Disertation thesis: “Temporal and spatial analysis of hailstorms of the summer half-year on the territory of Moravia and Silesia in 19th and 20th centuries”
- MSc.: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Geography and cartography (1997-2002), Thesis: “Extremely dry and wet periods in the Czech Republic”
Appointments
- 2016-now: research scientist, Global Change Research Institute AS CR
- 2012-2015: junior research scientist, Global Change Research Centre AS CR
- 2005-2011: researcher, Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
- 2003: researcher, Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Awards
2006: Dean´s Award, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Membership
European Geosciences Union
Brief scientometrics
number of articles in impacted journals: 28
number of conference proccedings articles: 3 (1 of them in WoS)
number of articles in other reviewed journals: 4
publications in WoS: 29
total of citations (WoS): 605 (553 without self-citations)
h-index: 13
(state as 9 September 2025)
