Position: scientist
Branch: Department of climate services
Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.Bělidla 4aBrno603 00
Email: stepanek.p@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 511 192 214
Research Focus
Quality control, homogenization and climatological databases processing, time and spatial analysis of climatological series, climate change, creation of software for time series quality control, homogenization and analysis (AnClim, ProClimDB, LoadData: www.climahom.eu). Extreme value analysis. Validation and correction of climate model outputs.
Education
1998 M.Sc.: Faculty of Sciences, Mararyk University Brno, Physical Geography, specialization Climatology and Hydrology (thesis:Methods of air temperature and precipitation variation analysis on example of Brno),
2006 Ph. D. in Climatology and Hydrology, Faculty of Sciences, Mararyk University Brno (dissertation: Air Temperature Fluctuations in the Czech Republic in the Period of Instrumental Measurements)
Appointments
1998-2001: assistant at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University Brno.
2003-2005: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), regional office Brno. Climatologist/agrometeorologist
2005-2012: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, regional office Brno. Chief of Department of meteorology and climatology
since 2011: Global Change Research Institute AS CR, v.v.i., Department of Climate Modelling and Scenarios Development. Junior researcher
Awards
1998: Dean’s Award (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University)
Important research visits and fellowships
University of Evora, Portugal, 1999 (1 month)
Imersiva, Ltd., Lisboa, Portugal, 1999-2000 (5 months)
University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2003 (3 weeks)
Meteorologisk Institute, Oslo, Norway, 2004 (2 weeks)
Membership
chair of Brno branch of Czech meteorological society
Brief scientometrics
94 papers in SCI-impacted journals authored or co-authored, cited 2175 / 1986 times with / without self citation (WOS), H-index = 24
