Position: Postdoc
Branch: Research Group of Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mititgation Modelling
Workplace:
MendelGlobe
Zemědělská 1665/1
Brno
613 00
Email: sochova.i@czechglobe.cz
Phone:
Research Focus
Dendrochronology, creation of standard chronology, dendrochronology dating, dendroecology, dendroclimatology, stable isotopes
Education
10/2019 – 6/2025, Ph.D. study (Wood Material Engineering) – Department of wood science and technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, MENDELU in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno
9/2015 – 6/2017, Master’s degree (Wood Engineering) – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, MENDELU in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno
9/2010 – 6/2015, Bachelor study (Furniture) – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, MENDELU in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno
9/2003 – 6/2010, Grammar school Brno-Bystrc (English language) – Gymnázium Brno-Bystrc, Vejrostova 1143/2, 635 00 Brno
Appointments
07/2025 – Present – Post-doc, CzechGlobe – Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
1/2020 – 06/2025 – graduate student, CzechGlobe – Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
5/2023 – present – Research technician in the field of Dendrochronology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 61300
Important research visits and fellowships
16/07/2021 – 16/08/2021, internship – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
05/11/2023 – 11/11/2023, internship – University of Torino, Italy.
11/07/2024 – 09/08/2024, internship – University of Barcelona, Spain.
29/03/2025 – 13/04/2025, internship – University of Barcelona, Spain.
Membership
2023‒Present Member of the “The Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR)”
Brief scientometrics
Publications:
(1) Kolář, T., Čermák, P., Trnka, M., Koňasová, E., Sochová, I. & Rybníček, M., 2020. Dendroclimac study of a mixed spruce-fir-beech forest in the Czech Republic. Les/Wood, 69(1): 21–32. https://doi.org/10.26614/les-wood.2020.v69n01a02
(2) Kolář, T.; Dobrovolný, P.; Szabó, P.; Mikita, T.; Kyncl, J.; Sochová, I.; Rybníček, M. 2021. Wood species utilization for timber constructionsin the Czech lands over the period 1400–1900. Dendrochronologia 70: 125900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125900
(3) Sochová, I., Kolář, T., Rybníček, M., 2021. A review of oak dendrochronology in Eastern Europe. Tree Ring Res. 77 (1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3959/TRR2020-2
(4) Sochová, I., Kolář, T., Rybníček, M., 2021. The dendrochronological proof of origin of oak churches located in the Czech Republic. Dendrochronologia 70 (2021), 125892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125892
(5) Kolář, T., Dobrovolný, P., Szabó, P., Mikita, T., Kyncl, T., Kyncl,J., Sochová, I., Flídr, A., Merta, D., and Rybníček, M., 2022. Effects of social and climatic factors on building activity in the Czechlands between 1450 and 1950: a dendrochronological analysis, Journal Quaternary Science, 37 (2): 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.
(6) Bose, A. K., Doležal, J., Scherrer, D., Altman, J., Ziche, D., Martínez-Sancho, E., Bigler, Ch., Bolte, A., Colangelo, M., Dorado-Liñán, I., Drobyshev, I., Etzold, S., Fonti, P., Gessler, A., Kolář, T., Koňasová, E., Korznikov, K. A., Lebourgeois, F., Lucas-Borja, M. E., Menzel, A., Neuwirth, B., Nicolas, M., Omelko, A. M., Pederson, N., Petritan, A. M., Rigling, A., Rybníček, M., Scharnweber, T., Schröder, J., Silla, F., Sochová, I., Sohar, K., Ukhvatkina, O. N., Vozmishcheva, A. S., Zweifel, R., Camarero, J. J., 2024. Revealing legacy effects of extreme droughts on tree growth of oaks across the Northern Hemisphere, Science of The Total Environment 926: 172049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172049.
(7) Jevšenak, J., Klisz, M., Mašek, J., Čada, V., Janda, P., Svoboda, M., Vostarek, O., Treml, V., van der Maaten, E., Popa, A., Popa, I., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Zlatanov, T., Scharnweber, T., Ahlgrimm, S., Stolz, J., Sochová, I., et al., 2024. Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe. Science of the total environment 913: 169692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169692
(8) Pernicová, N., Urban, O., Čáslavský, J., Kolář, T., Rybníček, M., Sochová, I., Peñuelas, J., Bošeľa, M., Trnka, M., 2024. Impacts of elevated CO2 levels and temperature on photosynthesis and stomatal closure along an altitudinal gradient are counteracted by the rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit. Science of the Total Environment 921: 171173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171173
(9) Sochová, I., T. Kolář, M. Árvai, M. Bošeľa, K. Čufar, Z. Kern, J. Kyncl, P. Marčiš, I. Mészáros, A. Morgós, A. Mursa, A. Popa, C.-C. Roibu, I. Sopushynskyy, M. Rybníček, 2024. The palaeoclimatic potential of recent oak tree-ring width chronologies from Southwest Ukraine. Dendrochronologia, Volume 84 (2024), 126168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126168
(10)Sochová, I., Kolář, T., Koňasová, E., Urban, O., Pernicová, N., Trnka, M., Bošeľa, M., Marčiš, P., Büntgen, U., Rybníček, M., 2024. Oak tree-ring carbon stable isotopes from eastern Europe reveal significant drought signals along elevational gradients. Science of the Total Environment 955 (2024), 177114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177114
(11)Sochová, I., Kolář, T., Brázdil, R., Kyncl, T., Kyncl, J., Melo, M., Trnka, M., Bilanych, M., Rybníček, M., 2025. A new 621-year Transcarpathian oak tree-ring chronology (Eastern Europe). Dendrochronologia 89 (2025), 126284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126284.
