Speaker
Lenka Procházková
Lenka is a post-doc at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), with research interests in the fields of algal ecology, physiological adaptations, strain making, metagenomics, and taxonomy.
Her PhD thesis from 2020 was awarded the third prize of the best European PhD thesis in Freshwater Sciences for the period 2019-2020.
She has published > 45 peer-reviewed papers. Her fieldwork expertise comes from repeated expeditions mainly to Svalbard, the European Alps and High Tatra Mountains. She described more than three genera and 10 species of algae. She received a Ph.D. from Charles University, Czech Republic. She teaches a transmission electron microscope course, field ecology course (for bachelor students), ecology of aquatic organisms, and the lab + theoretical course on ecophysiology of microalgae (for master and PhD students). She co-organized the 3rd Snow Algal Meeting (2022) in Prague with 34 participants from all over the world.
In her free time, she plays the guitar and is involved in volunteering patrols helping to monitor wild carnivores (wolf and lynx) in the frame of the Friend of the Earth program.
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Talks at this conference:
| Thu, 10:00 | Snow algae and glacier ice algae biogeography and ecophysiology |