CV
EDUCATION
11/2023 Full Professorship in Psychology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
5/2016 Habilitation in Social Psychology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
Habilitation Thesis “Czechs and Their Neighbors: Primary and Secondary Transfer
Effect of Intergroup Contact in Five Central European Countries”
6/2010 Ph.D. in Social Psychology (summa cum laude) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University & Czech Academy of Sciences
Ph.D. Thesis “Intergroup Attitudes and Contact in a Czech-Austrian Border Region“
6/2006 MA in Psychology (summa cum laude), Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
MA Thesis "Personality in Cultural Context"
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 – present Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZ
– leading senior researcher
– head of the Brno Lab of Intergroup Processes
2017 – present Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland
– senior researcher
2021 – present Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
– external supervisor of PhD students [3 ongoing],
– member of the Subject Area Board of Psychology
2008–present Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
– external supervisor of PhD students [3 awarded PhD]
2009–2010 Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University, Brno
– lecturer
RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED BY GRANT AGENCIES
1/2024-6/2028 Research team member in the project CZ. 02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583 DigiWELL “Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing” within The Johannes Amos Comenius Programme funded by the Czech Ministry of Education
and European Union.
1/2024-12/2026 Research team member in the project GA24-11974S "Usage of Reaction Time for an Unbiased Estimate of Prejudice:
A Novel Approach to Measurement and Modeling" awarded to David Lacko by the Czech Science Foundation.
1/2023-12/2025 Principal investigator of the project 23-06170S "The Role of Distinct Types of Social Norms in Improving
Conflictual Intergroup Relations" by the Czech Science Foundation.
10/2020-9/2024 Principal investigator, member of consortium of the Marie S. Curie International Training Network
MSCA-ITN-2020 953326 G-VERSITY “Achieving Gender Diversity” by the European Commission.
1/2020–12/2022 Principal investigator of the project 20-01214S “Mutual Perception of Acculturation Preferences in Majority and Immigrants”
by the Czech Science Foundation.
1/2017–7/2019 Principal investigator of the Marie S. Curie Individual Fellowship MSCA-IF-2015-EF 703495 IMMIGRANTS
"The Effects of Media News about Immigrants on Attitudes and Behaviors toward Immigrants" by the European Commission.
1/2017–12/2019 Collaborator on the project 17-14387S "The Effect of Intergroup Contact on Acculturation Strategies and Support for Minority Rights:
A Longitudinal Perspective in Majority and Minority" by the Czech Science Foundation.
1/2013–12/2016 Principal investigator of the project 13-25656S "Determinants of Intergroup Relations: An Integrated Model of Intergroup Attitudes,
Contact, Personality-, and Socially-Anchored Factors" by the Czech Science Foundation.
1/2010–12/2012 Collaborator on the project P407/10/2394 "Intergroup Attitudes and Contact in five Central European Countries"
by the Czech Science Foundation.
1/2007–12/2009 Collaborator on the project 406/07/1561 "Judgement of National Stereotypes in the Context of a Five-Factor Model"
by the Czech Science Foundation.
AWARDS
10/2023 Neuron Award for auspicious researchers in social sciences for research on intergroup interactions
04/2022 Top Cited Paper Award from the Journal of Social Issues for the article "The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions"
11/2018 International Collaboration Award for the book “Czechs and their neighbors: Intergroup attitudes and contact in Central Europe” (first author) by the Czech Academy of Sciences
06/2015 Otto Wichterle Award by the Czech Academy of Sciences for exceptionally outstanding young scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences who remarkably contributed to the advancement of scientific knowledge in a given area of science
10/2014 Nomination for the Comenius Early Career Award by the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association to young academics from Europe who made an original contribution to psychology as a science by the Union of Psychologists’ Associations of the Czech Republic
05/2014 Best Paper Award for "Nouns cut slices: Effects of linguistic forms on intergroup bias" by the International Association for Language and Social Psychology for the paper’s innovations, rigorous methodology, and its overall contribution to the development of the social psychology of language
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
7/2022 Teaching and supervision at the Intergroup Relations workshop, Summer School of the European Association of Social Psychology
5/2021 Organizer of an international webinar “Antigypsyism and the situation of the Roma in six European countries”, CMPS
2019/2020 Chair for Psychology of Intergroup Relations at the Scientific Committee of the 2020 General Meeting
of the European Association of Social Psychology
4/2019 Organizer and speaker at the expert meeting “How mass media shape the perception of others: The refugee crisis and post-conflict societies”, CMPS
4/2017 Organizer and speaker at the expert meeting “Social minorities and cultural differences”, CMPS
4/2015 Organizer of the expert meeting „The nature of prejudice: 60 years after Allport“, CMPS
9/2014–present Member of the Board on Cultural and Ethnic Diversity, European Federation of Psychological Associations
2/2014 Founder and head of the Brno Lab of Intergroup Processes, Czech Academy of Sciences
12/2012–present Member of editorial board of Journal for Social and Political Psychology
12/2012–present Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology; GPIR: etc.
1/2009–7/2010 General secretary of the 15th European Conference on Personality, Brno, Czech Republic
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH VISITS
1/2016–3/2016 International Short Visit by the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. Sabine Sczesny)
11/2015 Travel Grant by the European Association of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland
11/2013–12/2013 Short Visit Grant by the European Social Cognition Network 2 at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, University of Oxford, UK
10/2012–6/2013 Research visit at the University of Newcastle, Australia, sponsored by the Award for International Collaboration by the Czech Academy of Sciences
and by the University of Newcastle’s Emerging Research Leadership Program awarded to Profs. Stefania Paolini and Mark Rubin
7/2012 Research visit at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, University of Oxford, UK (Prof. Miles Hewstone)
9/2007–3/2008 Research Scholarship awarded by the University of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Department of Applied Psychology (Prof. Alexandra Freund)
1/2007–5/2008 European Ph.D. on Social Representations and Communication, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
6/2007 Research visit at the Centre for Inter-Group Relations, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany
8/2006 Scholarship awarded by the European Association of Social Psychology, Summer School of Exp. Social Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
2/2004-6/2004 Erasmus Scholarship at the University of Aarhus, Denmark