Position: scientist
Branch: Department of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.V Jirchářích 149/6Praha110 00
Email: harmackova.z@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 702 012 022
Research Focus
- Future scenarios, sustainability pathways
- Comparative analysis of resilience indicators
- Assessment and evaluation of ecosystem services (InVEST, ARIES)
- Modelling ecosystem service trade-offs
- Social-ecological systems, Long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER)
Education
- 2012 – 2016: Environmental Studies (Ph.D.)
Environment Center, Charles University in Prague
Thesis: Assessing ecosystem services and the alternatives of their future development in UNESCO biosphere reserves - 2006 – 2011: Ecology and Environmental Protection (Mgr. – equivalent to MSc.)
Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University in Prague
Thesis: Modelling influence of spoil heap spatial heterogeneity on plant and soil development
Appointments
- 2019 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Change Research Institute CAS (former Global Change Research Centre CAS)
- 2017 – 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre
- 2012 – 2017: PhD student, Global Change Research Institute CAS (former Global Change Research Centre CAS)
Research themes: Modelling and assessment of ecosystem services, long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER)
Important research visits and fellowships
- 2018: Visiting Scholar – Leuphana University (Prof. Joern Fischer)
- 2015: Visiting Scholar – Stockholm Resilience Centre (Dr. Stephan Barthel)
- 2013: Visiting Scholar – University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economy and Law, Environmental Economics Unit
(Assoc. Prof. Gunnar Köhlin)
Membership
- IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services): Values Assessment,
Chapter 5: Incorporating multiple values of nature and nature’s contribution to people for just and sustainable futures - IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services): Regional assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services – Europe and Central Asia, Chapter 5: Integrated and cross-scale analysis of interactions of the natural world and human society
- Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP): Thematic Working Group on Ecosystem Services in Trade-off Analysis and Project Evaluation
- Young Ecosystem Services Specialists
Brief scientometrics
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zuzana_Harmackova
