Position: Research Assistant
Branch: Department of Climate Variability and Climate Change Analysis
Workplace:
MUNI, Brno
Kotlářská 2
Brno
602 00
Email: dolak.l@czechglobe.cz
Phone: +420 724 782 872
Research Focus
Hydrometeorological extremes in the Czech Lands in the 17th-20th centuries and their socio-economic impacts, research on drought episodes, heatwaves and wildfires in Central Europe and their impacts, recent climate change impacts.
Education
2012-2017: PhD study – Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (field of study: Physical Geography)
2010-2012: MA study – Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (field of study: Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography, Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in History)
2007-2010: BA study – Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (field of study: Geography and Cartography with a view to Education, History)
Appointments
2013-present: Postdoc (until 2022), research assistent (from 2022) Global Change Research Institute CAS
2012-2019: Specialist, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
2019-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Awards
2016: Young Scientist Travel Award, EMS
2015: Director’s award at the Global Change: A Complex Challenge Conference
2013: Dean´s Award for Excellence Research, Development and other creative activities
Important research visits and fellowships
University of Oulu, Finland: March 2025
University of Helsinki, Finland, August-October 2024, February, July-September 2025
University Bern, Switzerland: January-March 2022
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom: April-July 2019
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: March 2019
Longyearbyen, Svalbard: March-April 2016
University Bern, Switzerland: November-December 2014
Membership
Czech Geographical Society
European Geosciences Union
International Commission for the History of Meteorology
CRIAS (Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies) – člen Steering committee
Brief scientometrics
Number of papers on WoS: 32
Number of citations: 335
Number of citations (without self-citations): 279
H-index = 11
Complete list of publications:
https://is.muni.cz/auth/osoba/263084?lang=en;setlang=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas_Dolak/publications
Research ID: G-1776-2014
ORCID: 0000-0003-1325-298X
