Prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D. Masaryk university
Jiří Macháček is a professor of of Medieval Archaeology, head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology and head of the research team. He is a coordinator of research activities. He has published papers and books on medieval archaeology and computer applications on archaeology in international journals (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Early Medieval Europe, Archaeologia Austriaca etc.) and publishing houses (Brill/Leiden-Boston, Habelt/Bonn, BAR Publishing/Oxford). He was awarded many prestigious international and national awards (Otto Gründler Memorial Endowment/Western Michigan University/USA, Masaryk University Rector’s Award, The Intergraph Best Practices Awards/Intergraph Corporation/USA, Certificate of Merit from the president of the Czech Science Foundation, GAČR/Prague etc.).
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Sládek, Ph.D. Charles university
Vladimír Sládek is an associate professor of anthropology and the head of the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics of the Faculty of Science at the Charles University in Prague. He also leads the Bone Tissue Anthropology Lab. He conducts research in human evolution and bioarchaeology primarily on the postcranial skeletons and modeling bioarchaeological processes on living humans. He also conducts field anthropological research and studies in the human taphonomy.
Dr. rer. nat. Zuzana Hofmanová, Ph.D. University of Fribourg (SUI) and Masaryk university
Archaeogeneticist. Head of the ancient DNA research team at UAaM, MUNI. Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Specialist in ancient DNA analysis, novel and state-of-art bioinformatic pipelines, population genetic inference and interpretation and archaeological contextualisation of ancient DNA results. The coordinator and one of the main analysts in ERC Synergy project HistoGenes ("Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 AD"). Recipient of EMBO Long-Term Fellowship and former postdoc in Computational Population Genetics Lab at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. PhD in Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz, Germany, funded through the Marie Curie Initial Training Network. She was appointed to Early Career Scientist Leadership Program, Genetics Society of America and to Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers, JGU Mainz, Germany. In her research, she has been studying ancient and modern genomic data from Europe, Africa and Asia and among others, she has published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Nature and Science. She is an active member of scientific societies in genetics, archaeology and anthropology, a lecturer and an organiser of workshops and conference sessions.
Mgr. Petr Dresler, Ph.D. Masaryk university
Petr Dresler is the head of the archaeological research at Pohansko and an assistant professor working at the Department of Archaeology and Museology at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno.
Since 2003, he has been a part of the research team working on the exploration of the Great Moravia hillfort Pohansko near Břeclav. Within his pedagogical activities, he gives lectures on geographic information systems, spatial modeling, information technology and geodesy in archaeology, leads student theses and participates in publishing of research results from Pohansko and other sites. He has become a researcher in the “The Economic Hinterland of a Centre or just Settlements near the Hinterland of a Centre” project which took place between 2012 and 2014 and he participated in a number of other projects. In 2016, after Jiří Macháček had been elected the head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Dr. Dresler has become the head of the research at Pohansko.
He has taken 2nd place in the competition for the best work in the field of archaeology for authors under 36 years of age in 2009 and he has received the Jan Rulf award.
Mgr. Adéla Balcárková, Ph.D. Masaryk university
Archaeologist. Post-Doc, Brno (shewill be joining the team in 2023, currently on leave). Her work includes processing of ceramic finds from both older and recent archaeological excavations at Pohansko, processing of field documentation and an assistance in excavations.
Mgr. Vojtěch Nosek Masaryk university
Vojtěch Nosek is a doctoral student of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University in Brno and a 3D enthusiast. He focuses on applied 3D scanning, image-based modeling and its application in archaeology, both in the field and for documentation and artefact analysis. For the last eight years, he has been teaching students how not to get lost in the world of 3D in archaeology and cultural heritage preservation and how to use as much modern technology as possible in their future practice.
Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D. Masaryk university
Renáta Přichystalová (born Švecová) works as a scientific researcher at
the Department of Archaeology and Museology at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. She was born in Žilina (SR). She has graduated from the Archaeology master’s degree programme at the Masaryk University in Brno in 1999. Her master’s thesis focused on processing and analysis of the artefacts made of bone and antler from the settlements in Pohansko near Břeclav. After graduation, she started working as an archaeologist in Městské museum a galerie Břeclav (City museum and art gallery Breclav). She has spent a year at this institution and then she worked as an administrator of the library at the Department of Archaeology and Museology of Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Since 2006, she has been working in the Department as an assistant professor for research and development. She completed her doctoral study programme in 2012. In her dissertation, she focused on the problems of disperse funeral grounds at settlements with an emphasis on the southern suburb of the Pohansko hillfort. She also teaches and gives lectures on the topic of early Middle-Ages in Central Europe, on scientific communication and on the utilization of bones and antlers throughout the course of the entire human history.
Mgr. Pavlína Ingrová, Ph.D. Masaryk university
Pavlína Ingrová is a graduate of the Anthropology doctoral degree programme at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Her research has focused on human sociosexuality and the morphology of human body. Although she has focused on physical anthropology in the recent years, her practice and specific researches have often been related to archaeological anthropology. She is also interested in cultural anthropology. Currently, she works as a technician at the Department of Archaeology and Museology of Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, and she collects samples from the human bones for DNA analysis.
Bc. Viktorie Königová Charles university
Viktória Königová is a student at the Charles University Faculty of Science. In 2020 she graduated a bachelor's course in Biology and continues with master's course at the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics. Viktória is a member of the Bone Tissue Anthropology Lab and her main area of interest is bioarchaeology, taphonomy and development of subadult long bone biomechanical properties.
Mgr. Denisa Zlámalová Masaryk University
Mgr. Martin Košťál Masaryk University