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Global Change Research Institute, CAS
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prof. RNDr. Ing. Michal V. Marek, DrSc., dr. h. c.

Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry

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Position: Director of the CzechGlobe

Branch: Director of Institute

Branch: External Relations Unit

Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.Bělidla 4aBrno603 00

Email: marek.mv@czechglobe.cz

Phone: +420 511 192 269

Research Focus

Forestry, forest primary production, silviculture, ecophysiology of photosynthesis, biophysical plant physiology, air pollution, global changes.

Education

  • 2012      Technical University Zvolen (Slovakia) dr. h. c.:  Doctor Honoris Causa

  • 2001      Mendel University Brno: Professor “Forest Ecology”

  • 1999      Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences “Long-term effect of elevated carbon dioxide on the photosynthesis and growth of Norway spruce” – DSc. Degree in Plant Biology

  • 1992      Palacky University Olomouc, Assoc. Professor “Plant Physiology”

  • 1986      Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Sciences, Biophysics “Optical properties of Chrysanthemum leaves” – Master degree – Rerum Naturalium Doctoris – General Biology: Biophysics

  • 1983      Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Sciences, PhD studies: “The influence of nitrogen nutrition on the photosynthetic characteristics of barley”- PhD degree in Plant Physiology

  • 1983      Charles University Prague, Faculty of Philosophy, Postgraduate education “Mathematical modelling of CO2 assimilation”

Appointments

  • 2018 – present       member of Advisory Committee CSSTEAP, India

  • 2014 – present       fellow of the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

  • 2013 – 2016       member of experts board of Societal challenge” group HORIZON 2020

  • 2012 – present       Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University, Zvolen, Slovakia

  • 2011 – present      director of the Global Change Research Institute, Brno, CZ

  • 2010 – present      member of the research ESFRI committee ICOS, ANAEE, ACTRIS

  • 2009 – present       the steering committee – National Roadmap of research Infrastructure

  • 2007 – 2018       Czech Republic deputy in the ENVI ESFRI program

  • 2006 – present       Czech Republic deputy in scientific committee of COST EESEM platform

  • 2002 – 2005       president of the Scientific board of the Minister of Environmental protection

  • 2001 –2010        president of the Steering Committee of the Czech Grant Agency

  • 2001                     Professor “Forest Ecology” Mendel Agriculture and Forestry University Brno, CZ

  • 1997 – 2010       director of the Institute of Landscape Ecology, České Budějovice, CZ

  • 1992                      Assoc. Professor “Plant Physiology”, Palacky University Olomouc, CZ

  • 1986 – 1993       research Scientist, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Brno, CZ

  • 1983 – 1986       assistant, Department of Landscape Ecology, Charles University, Prague CZ

Membership

  • 2010 – present: Czech Republic deputy in the ENVI ESFRI program 

  • 2007 – 2009: Czech Republic deputy in the BMWG ESFRI program 

  • 2006 – present: Czech Republic deputy at the MC COST action 639 

  • 2006 – present: Czech Republic deputy in scientific committee of COST platform „Earth and Environmental Sciences“ 

  • 2001 – 2009: President of the Steering Committee of the Czech Science Foundation 

  • 2002 – 2008: President of the Scientific board of the Minister of Environmental protection Czech Republic

  • 1997 – 2000: CEC co-ordinator of the INCO-Copernicus project

  • 1993 – present: Member of the International Coordination Committees of the EC projects ECOCRAFT, PLANTSTRESS, EUROFLUX, IP CARBOEUROPE, and ICOS

  • 1994 – present: co-chairman of the Management Committee of the National Research Center Photosynthesis and Global Climate Change 

  • 1998 – 2000: Member of the Management Committee of the EU program E56 – EUROSILVA

Brief scientometrics

  • Total number of scientific contributions: 450

  • Papers in impacted journals: 99

  • Number of papers in other scientific journals: 101

  • Number of monographs: 6

  • Textbook: 2

  • Lectures, posters, abstracts from Int. conferences: 241

  • WOS: H-index 24         

  • WOS Sum of Records: 2101

  • SCOPUS: H-index 25

  • WOS Sum of Records: 2451

  • Total IF: 454

  • Total citation rate: 2542