prof. RNDr. Dušan Drbohlav, CSc.
Dušan Drbohlav is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and leads the GEOMIGRACE (Geographic Migration Centre) research team. He specializes in researching international migration issues and immigrants’ integration into host societies.
assoc. prof. Abigail H. Neely, Ph.D.
Abigail H. Neely is a political ecologist who explores the relationships between people, their environment, and institutions in shaping development initiatives. Using diverse methods such as oral history collection, ethnography, household surveys, focus groups, participatory GIS, and archival research, she uncovers the intricate ways in which people interact with each other and their environment. In her work, she incorporates epidemiological and ecological data and approaches scientific work with a critical eye towards the social production of knowledge.
assist. prof. Patricia Lopez, Ph.D.
Patricia Lopez is a health and development geographer focusing on the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the unfolding of international health and development projects in Haiti over the past 100 years. She explores the racialized discourses that have undergirded US interventionism as well as the social and political responses to these interventions from within Haiti. At the heart of her research is an exploration of the role and accessibility of health citizenship.
doc. RNDr. Eva Janská, Ph.D.
Eva Janská is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. She is a member of the GEOMIGRACE (Geographic Migration Centre) and specializes in researching international migration, migrant integration, and Latin America.
doc. RNDr. Ivan Bičík, CSc.
Ivan Bičík is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He specializes in researching long term land use change, agriculture and the countryside, secondary housing, regional development, and microregional analysis.
Special guest
Michael Žantovský
Michael Žantovský is executive director of the Václav Havel Library and a diplomat, politician, writer, and translator. He is the former spokesperson of President Václav Havel and political director at the Office of the President of the Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Charles University in Prague.
Lecturers
prof. RNDr. Jiří Blažek, Ph.D.
Jiří Blažek is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and leads the Economic Geography Lab. He researches regional development of Czechia, regional innovation systems, the role of global production networks, and geography of finance,
prof. RNDr. Dagmar Dzúrová, CSc.
Dagmar Dzúrová is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and the Head of the Research Centre on Population Health, Quality of Life and Lifestyle Among Post-communist Societies in Geo-demographic Perspective. She researches health and well-being, as well as other geo-demographic topics.
doc. RNDr. Pavel Chromý, Ph.D.
Pavel Chromý is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and the a president of the Czech Geographic Society. His specialty is historical and cultural geography, new regional geography, and history of regional development.
doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
Jiřina Kocourková is an associate professor and a head of the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Charles University, Faculty of Science. She researches long term population trends in Czechia, reproductive behavior of the Czech population, as well as population and family politics.
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.
Tomáš Kostelecký is an associate professor at Charles University and at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the study of regional and socio-spatial inequalities, electoral geography, spatial aspects of voting behaviour, and democratic institutions at both local and regional levels.
RNDr. Zdeněk Kučera, Ph.D.
Zdeněk Kučera is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He is a team member of the Research Centre for Cultural and Historical Geography at the same department. His research interests are in historical, cultural and regional geography, especially the study of heritage, transformations of landscapes and settlement, regional identities, and historical and cultural aspects of development of borderland, mountain and rural areas. He is a director of Historical Geography and Environmental History Section of the Czech Geographical Society.
doc. RNDr. Viktor Květoň, Ph.D.
Viktor Květoň is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Economic Geography Lab. He researches the formation and barriers to regional innovation systems, regional disparities, the development of competitivness, as well as new path development.
prof. RNDr. Jakub Langhammer, Ph.D.
Jakub Langhammer is a professor of Physical Geography at Faculty of Science, Charles University.
He is the head of Research Group of Hydrology, integrating hydrological research at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, and the founder and head of hyDRONE – research group aimed at research and applications of unmanned imaging technologies in hydrology and physical geography.
doc. RNDr. Miroslav Marada, Ph.D.
Miroslav Marada is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and researches geography of transportation – hierarchization of traffic hubs and networks in Czechia, as well as the interaction between highway infrastructure and regional development.
doc. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.
Martin Ouředníček is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and heads the Urban and Regional Laboratory research group. His main areas of research include the study of urban geography and planning, regional development, segregation, thematic (social) cartography, GIS, urbanization.
prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.
Petr Pavlínek is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and is a member of the Economic Geography Lab. He specializes in economic geography, geography of industry, foreign direct investments, and global value chains.
RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D.
Michal Pitoňák received his Ph.D. in human geography by defending the first Czech dissertation focusing on queer geographies. He currently works as a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and at Charles University at the Faculty of Education. His research includes spatiotemporal negotiation of sexual minority identities; homophobia in schools; queer theory; minority stress theory and the effects of minority stress on mental health. Michal also works as an independent scholar in the field of geographies of sexualities and as a chair of an NGO Queer Geography that focuses on the popularization of evidence-based science, and functions as a knowledge base to support sexual and gender minority people’s rights and liberties in Czechia, Slovakia and beyond.
RNDr. Lucie Pospíšilová Ph.D.
Lucie Pospíšilová is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Urban and Regional Laboratory. Her publication areas include daily rhythms, urban social problems, marginalized groups, and long-term population development in Prague.
prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D.
Luděk Sýkora is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and heads the Center for Urban and Regional Research. He specializes in urban transformation and development research, spatial differentiation, gentrification, globalization, and the transformation of post-socialist cities in general.
RNDr. Petra Špačková Ph.D.
Petra Špačková is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Urban and Regional Laboratory. Her publication areas include the differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighborhoods, the development of spatial patterns of Czech suburbanization, and reurbanization.
doc. Václav Treml, Ph.D.
Václav Treml is an associate professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He studies interactions between forests and climate, as well as consequences of climatic changes on forest productivity using dendrochronological methods. He is interested in treeline ecology and landscape evolution at longer temporal scales.
RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D.
Jiří Vágner is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He researches geography of tourism, secondary housing, and the regional geography of the world – mainly Latin America, as well as conflict regions.
Program Coordinator
Adam Martinek
Adam Martinek is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development. He is the current program coordinator since 2022 and oversees the day-to-day activities, event planning, and student outreach.