Ing. Tomáš Picek, Ph.D.

Education:

1995      University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Faculty of Agriculture and  Faculty of Biological Sciences, Ing. (MSc) in agriculture, specialisation Pedobiotechnology

2001     Ph.D., specialisation ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia

Professional Appointments:

1996 - 1999  - employee at the Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Academy of Science

since 2001 -  research assistant at the Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia

since 2013 till 2017 - employed also at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University, Germany (guest professor) (http://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman/work-packages/work-package-4/wetland-ecology.html)

Projects:

- Gaseous products of microbial decomposition of organic wastewater pollution in constructed wetland (GA ČR, GP206/03/P021, 2003-2005) - principal investigator

- Functional diversity of soil microorganisms in spruce swamp forest and its effect on soil DOM (GAČR 13-17398S, 2013-2016) - principal investigator

- Ecosystems, Society and Management (Erasmus+, 2024-2026, Ulm University, Germany) - team member

- Transboundary restoration of mires for biodiversity and landscape hydrology in Šumava and Bavarian Forest (LIFE for MIRES, LIFE, Administration of Šumava National Park, 2018-2024) - team member

 - The influence of plant functional type and phenology on plant inputs to soil as affected by simultaneous changes in environmental factors” (2019-2022, 19-13254S, Dr. Keith Edwards) - team member

Scientific interests:

- microbial processes and nutrient cycling in constructed and natural wetlands, interactions of vegetation and soil microbial community, greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils, quality of dissolved organic matter in wetland soils

 - member of working groups "Soil"   https://prf.jcu.cz/cz/fakulta/katedry/katedra-biologie-ekosystemu/vyzkum/puda

and “Peatland Ecology” https://prf.jcu.cz/cz/fakulta/katedry/katedra-experimentalni-biologie-rostlin/veda-a-vyzkum/raseliniste

ORCID: 0000-0001-6264-2031

Teaching

2013 - present        course “Wetland ecology” at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, programm UULM PRO MINT & MED (3 weeks intense course), runing every year from 2013 (http://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman/work-packages/work-package-4/wetland-ecology.html)

2012 - present        included as a teacher into Erasmus international programm „Soil and water“ and Educational Network on Soil and Plant Ecology and Management (https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-edusapman.html)

2001 – present       Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia – teaching of course “Soil chemistry and physics”, partly included in courses “Wetland ecology” and “Production ecology”, supervisor of bachelor, master and PhD thesis

Projects:

- Gaseous products of microbial decomposition of organic wastewater pollution in constructed wetland (GA ČR, GP206/03/P021, 2003-2005) - principal investigator

- Functional diversity of soil microorganisms in spruce swamp forest and its effect on soil DOM (GAČR 13-17398S, 2013-2016) - principal investigator

- Ecosystems, Society and Management (Erasmus+, 2024-2026, Ulm University, Germany) - team member

- Transboundary restoration of mires for biodiversity and landscape hydrology in Šumava and Bavarian Forest (LIFE for MIRES, LIFE, Administration of Šumava National Park, 2018-2024) - team member

- The influence of plant functional type and phenology on plant inputs to soil as affected by simultaneous changes in environmental factors” (2019-2022, 19-13254S, Dr. Keith Edwards) - team member