Mgr. Irena Axmanová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

• Axmanová, Irena (born as Veselá, Irena)
• Researcher ID: ORCID: 0000-0001-9440-7976, Scopus Author ID: 36602224400
• Date of birth: 3. 12. 1982, Czech nationality
• Married, two daughters (born September 2012 and August 2014).
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irena-Axmanova

Department

• Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University

Current position

• Assistant professor

Education

• 2012: PhD in Biology (Botany), thesis: The effect of productivity and other environmental factors on the forest herb-layer diversity. Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D. Defence date: 12. 4. 2012, grade A.
  
• 2007: Master's degree in biology (Botany; and Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology), thesis: Natural and semi-natural vegetation of the Vizovice Hills. (in Czech, published later as a manuscript) Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D.

Previous positions

• 2007 – 2022 (incl. maternity and parental leave 2012–2017)
  Researcher, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.

Teaching Activities

• Lecturer:
  Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
  2007 – Field course of botany (4–5 days), Field course of systematic botany (5 days); break during maternity leave (2013–2017)
  2007 – 2011 Higher plant phylogeny and diversity - practical course; semestral
  2022 – System of angiosperms; semestral course
  2023 Maps in R (workshop for students)
  2023 Selected topics in ecology: Tidy data in R; block lecture
  2023 – Data analysis in community ecology; semestral course
  
• Supervision:
  3 Bachelor (1 defended),
  2 PhD students (1 main supervisor and 1 as a co-supervisor)
  

Memberships of scientific societies

• 2008 – Member, Czech Botanical Society (ČBS, https://botanospol.cz/en)
• 2008 – Member, European Vegetation Survey (EVS, http://euroveg.org/)
• 2011 – Member, Czech Society for Ecology (ČSPE, https://www.cspe.cz/en/)
• 2021 – Member, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS, https://www.iavs.org/)
  Within IAVS, I was elected as a Council member in 2023, and recently also as a Vice President of the IAVS for a four-year period.

Internship

• Research stay abroad Universität Bremen, Germany, prof. Martin Diekmann, February-May 2009, DAAD scholarship for young scientists

Organisation of scientific meetings

• 2022: Member of the local organising committee. Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Large scale protection and restoration of biodiversity. 2.–3. 4. 2022, Brno, Czechia.   150 participants
• 2011: Member of organising committee. Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: PhD inspirations in botany II. 26–27.11.2011, Prague, Czechia. 135 participants
• 2008: Member of the local organising committee. 17th International Workshop of European Vegetation Survey: Using phytosociological data to address ecological questions. 1.–5. 5. 2008, Brno, Czech Republic.   100 participants

Institutional responsibilities

• 2022 – Member of a committee for bachelor state exams (programme Ecology and evolutionary biology), Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
• 2020 – Member of Working group for HR Award, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Reviewing activities and Editorial board

• 2008 – Department Review Board for student theses, so far 7 bachelor theses and 8 master theses, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia (break during maternity leave)
• 2012 – Reviewer (for 10 international scientific journals so far), including Global Change Biology, Oikos
• 2022 – Editorial Review Board, Applied Vegetation Science journal
• 2023 – Editor of the IAVS Bulletin

2023/11/06