Work Experience and Education
Roles
Researcher
Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, 2023-ongoing
Research activities in critical posthumanism, management of Research Centre in building research capacities and consulting research. Administrative cooperation of TA ČR project Educational computer game about the status of Roma in Czech society.
Currently on maternity leave.
Regional Representative for South Moravian Region
Czech National Agency for International Education and Research, 2022-2024
Acquisition of potential applicants, creating and maintaining strategic partnerships in the region, presentation of funding opportunities and consulting project intentions.
Research Manager
Institute of International Relations, v.v.i., 2019-2021
Main responsibilities included: reporting outputs, creating reports and further analysis in relation to the M17+ evaluation; setting salaries of research staff based on their performance and fulfilling internal evaluation criteria; participating in the conception and ensuring the operation of the research department; creating internal regulations for HR and other areas; communication with the provider (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic).
Website Editor and Community Coordinator
Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, 2022
Participating on the IT Service Management activities – creating user-friendly content for IT MUNI website (e.g. online presentation of new services) and organizing events for the IT Community.
Officer at Division of Public Tenders
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, 2019
Agenda revolved around the preparation of public tenders: negotiation of parameters for public tenders; the preparation of the documentation for the announcement of individual public tenders; subsequent seminars moderation; organization of projects evaluation; announcement of the results.
Resident Research Fellow
Oslo Metropolitan University, spring semester 2022
Affiliated with the Future of Living Technologies (FeLT) project, supervised by prof. Kristin Bergaust. Main activities: research; re-conceptualization of Art in Society research group, further participation; co-organization of workshops; lectures; shadowing interdisciplinary project (FeLT) management.
Project manager
Language Centre, Masaryk University, 2017-2019
Coordination of the OP VVV (OP 2: Human Resources Development and International Orientation of Research at MU) within Language Centre; project and financial management of projects financed by the Masaryk University Development Fund (FRMU) and the Internal Development Project (IRP).
Education
PhD, 2020-2025
Digital Culture and Creative Industries, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Research project: Artistic research as a tool for overcoming the dualism of technology versus nature from the perspective of object-oriented ontology. The case of artistic interventions in the field of synthetic biology
Currently on maternity leave.
MA, 2016-2018
Management in Culture, Faculty of Economics and Administration and Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Theory of Interactive Media, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Thesis: Post post- internet: Mapping the Development of the Czech Art Scene
BA, 2013-2016
Theory of Interactive Media, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Thesis: Reflection of Czech Post-Internet Art
Commitees and association memberships
Critical Witness
Translocal Performative Academy, since 2024
As a critical witness to this international research programme across Europe and Southeast Asia, I provide theoretical reflection and discussion points. The program brings together artists working in various disciplines: fine arts, performative poetry, architecture, choreography, performance art, digital arts, and research-based artistic practices.
Member
Research Committee of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, since 2022
The committee is concerned with the long-term direction of the faculty in the areas of research, project support, and research management. It monitors and evaluates the methodology for evaluating faculty scholarly performance and makes suggestions for improving support for grant investigators, the use of research opportunities, and adjustments to research policy.
Co-founder
Association of PhD Students
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, founded 2021
The aim of is to create a space for sharing the experiences of students across disciplines.
Evaluator
Technology Agency of Czech Republic, since 2022
Evaluating research projects within CEP research fields AJ, AL, AQ.
Summer Schools
The Intersectional Posthumanities
Director: Rosi Braidotti. Utrecht University, Netherlands. August 2023.
The Summer School explored approaches such as: transversal methodologies; neo-materialism; the new empiricisms; current textual practices; non-representational theories; inter/trans and post-disciplinarity; methods to exit colonialism; critical feminist theory and art practices as research methods.
The Posthuman Life of Methods
Director: Rosi Braidotti. Utrecht University, online. August 2022.
The course builds on Braidotti’s neo-materialist, critical feminist posthuman theory. It focusses on the methodological implications of posthuman scholarship across a broad interdisciplinary range.
Politics and Aesthetics of the Common
Working group: What Was the Aesthetics of Folk-Politics?. Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in partnership with the Palacký University in Olomouc and the University of Warsaw. August 2017.
Skills and Training
Languages
English (C1), German (B1), Italian (A1)
Software
Office 365, Google Workplace, Photoshop, Illustrator, Umbraco, Wordpress, Zoom
Training
Completed courses on:
Presentation skills
Moderation, mediation, facilitation
Communication and popularization of science
Rhetoric
Time-management
Gender sensitivity in the workplace
Effective communication and negotiation