Position: senior, domain leader, leader of RT 03
Branch: Research Group of Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mititgation Modelling
Workplace:
ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.
K Zámečku 1215
Bystřice nad Pernštejnem
593 01
Email: trnka.m@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 725 950 927
Research Focus
Research topics: weather/climate&plant production and interactions; dynamic plant growth modeling and its relation to abitotic stresses; drought climatology and methods of drought assessment and monitoring; land-use modelling, climate change impact assessment on the ecosystem servises; modeling of the pest-weather relationship; micrometeorological methods for water balance monitoring and water balance modelling; adaptation strategies for climate change/drought; advanced integrated modelling of climate change adaptation strategies with focus on climate change mitigation.
Education
Education:
1993-1994 Cowanesque Valley High School, Pennsylvania, USA
1994-1999 Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, MSc. in agric. ecology
1996–2001 Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, M.A. in general law and law science – graduated with distinction
1999–2002 PhD, applied landscape ecology – bioclimatology Mendel University
Received the MSc degree (1999) in agroecology from Mendel University in Brno (MENDELU) and PhD (2002) in Applied landscape ecology from MENDELU. In the same time he studied Law and Law Science at Masaryk´s University in Brno focusing on the Environmental law and air pollution regulation (graduated in 2001). All graduations were with distinction.
Appointments
2002-2009: Researcher and assistant professor at Mendel University
2009 -2014: Associated professor and researcher at Mendel University in Brno
2010 – present: Senior researcher and head of laboratory at CzechGlobe Research Institute AS CR, v.v.i.
2014 – present: Professor Factulty of Agronmy, Mendel University in Brno
2014 – present: Leader of Climate Analysis and Climate Modelling Domain at CzechGlobe Research Institute AS CR, v.v.i.
He currently teaches climate and climate focused courses for agronomy, agroecology and forestry undergraduate and graduate students at the Faculty of Agronomy. He leads Climate Analysis and modelling Domain at Global Change Research Institute Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and he is research team leader focused on climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation modelling and climate extreme analysis. He has held number of invited presentations at conferences and workshops in USA, Austria, Germany, UK or France. Within Central Europe he has been holding meetings with and for key stakeholders and decision makers including hearings by two Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, ministers and vice-ministers of Agriculture, ministers and vice-ministers of Environment, Senate and Lower House of the Czech Republic, the invited lecture for 27 ministers of agriculture in the Council of Ministers focusing on drought and also potential impacts of climate change on Agriculture. Between 2016 and 2022 he has been leading development of integrated strategies for climate change adaptation.
Awards
2014: J.G. Mendel Medal given by Dean of Faculty of Agronomy for “Conducting and promoting collaborative research”
2015: J. Hlávka award for the best Natural Sciences book of 2014 – Drought in the Czechlands (co-leader of author team)
2021: he has been listed as only Czech Scientist at the Thomson Reuters list of 1000 most influential Climate Scientists.
2021: Czech Learned Socicety and UN Office in Prague award for Climate Change education and outreach
2021: Medal of Rector of Mendel University for “Outstanding scientific contribution to agricultural research”
Important research visits and fellowships
1993-1994 (12 months) USA, Cowanesque Valley High School, Westfield, PA; 1995 (2 months) USA, Columbia – Department of Agriculture, SC; 2000 (8 weeks) Israel, course “Weather Crop Modelling” held by WMO; 2001-2024 (total 15 months) Austria, Institute of Meteorology and Physics, BOKU, Vienna; 2003-2023 USA (total 11 months at National Drought Mitigation Centre, University of Nebraska, Lincoln); 2005 – AVEC, France (summer school Vulnerability of Ecosystems and adaptation to the Climate Change;– organised by PIK, Germany); 2004-2010 France (2 months in total – 4 stays at INRA Avignon – crop modelling with STICs)
Membership
Czech Meteorological Society
Brief scientometrics
https://publons.com/researcher/2527530/miroslav-trnka/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4727-8379
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miroslav-Trnka
Total No. of papers (Web of Science – September 2025): 297
h-index (Web of Science): 58
No. of citations (withou self-citaitons): 10.298
- Trnka, M.; Feng, S.; Semenov, M.A.; Olesen, J.E.; Kersebaum, K.C.; Rötter, R.P.; Semerádová, D.; Klem, K.; Huang, W.; Ruiz-Ramos, M. Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas. Science Advances 2019, 5, 12.
- Trnka, M., Rotter, R.P., Ruiz–Ramos, M., Kersebaum, K.Ch., Olesen, J.E., Zalud, Z., Semenov, M.A., 2014. Adverse weather conditions for European wheat production will become more frequent with climate change. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate2242
- Feng, S.; Trnka, M.; Hayes, M.; Zhang, Y. Why do different drought indices show distinct future drought risk outcomes in the US Great Plains? Journal of Climate. 2017, 30, 265–278
- M Trnka, P Hlavinka, MA Semenov, Adaptation options for wheat in Europe will be limited by increased adverse weather events under climate change, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12 (112), 2015, 0721
- Büntgen U, Urban O, Krusic PJ, Rybníček M, Kolář T, Kyncl T, Ač A, Koňasová E, Čáslavsky J, Esper J, Wagner S, Saurer M, Tegel W, Dobrovolny P, Cherubini P, Reinig F, Trnka M (2021) Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability. Nature Geoscience 14: 190-196
- Mozny, M., Trnka, M., Vlach, V. et al. The climate-induced decline in the quality and quantity of European hops calls for immediate adaptation measures. Nature Commun 14, 6028 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41474-5
