prof. Tomáš Albrecht Ph.D.
Position full-time researcher
Direction evolutionary ecology, ecology of birds
Workplace Research facility Studenec
+420 560 590 614

Running Projects
Finished projects
International experience
- 2018-2019, 2020 – Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany
- 2009 – National Centre for Biosystematics (NCB), Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2007 – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- field research in Africa (Cameroon, Southern Africa, Ethiopia), the USA, New Zealand, French Guiana, and across Europe
Selected international collaborations
- Bielefeld University (Tim Schmoll) – sperm biology
- Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (Maren Vitousek) – signaling function of sexual ornamentation
- Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany (Bart Kempenaers, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Henrik Brumm, Mihai Valcu) – sexual selection
- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Jan T. Lifjeld, Arild Johnsen) – post-copulatory sexual selection and sperm biology
- University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (Rebecca J. Safran) – speciation in barn swallows
- University of Groningen, Netherlands (Simon Verhulst) – ageing, telomeres in birds,
- Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (Vaidas Palinauskas) – haemosporidian parasites in barn swallows
Current Ph.D. students
- Anastasiia Siretckaia (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Barbora Vodičková Počtová (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Josefína Záleská (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Kryštof Horák (Masaryk University, Brno; supervisor)
- Lukáš Pazdera (Charles University, Prague; co-supervisor)
- Matouš Janča (Masaryk University, Brno; co-supervisor)
- Ondřej Kauzál (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Tereza Králová (Masaryk University, Brno; co-supervisor)
Former Ph.D. students
- Adéla Petrželková (Charles University, Prague; co-supervisor)
- David Hořák (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Hana Bainová (Charles University, Prague; co-supervisor)
- Jakub Kreisinger (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Jan Schnitzer (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Judith Pouadjeu (University of Dschang; co-supervisor)
- Kristýna Míčková (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Lucie Kropáčková (Charles University, Prague; co-supervisor)
- Lukáš Bobek (Masaryk University, Brno; supervisor)
- Marie Adámková (Masaryk University, Brno; supervisor)
- Marta Promerová (Masaryk University, Brno; co-supervisor)
- Michal Vinkler (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Oldřich Tomášek (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Pavlína Opatová (Masaryk University, Brno; supervisor)
- Peter Mikula (Charles University, Prague)
- Petr Klvaňa (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Radka Poláková (Masaryk University, Brno; co-supervisor)
- Romana Michálková (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
- Sampath Kumar Anandan (Masaryk University, Brno; co-supervisor)
- Taiwo C. Omotoriogun (University of Oslo, Oslo; co-supervisor)
- Veronika Javůrková (Charles University, Prague; supervisor)
Publications and Applied outputs
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2012
Poláková R, Schnitzer J, Vinkler M, Bryja J, Munclinger P, Albrecht T (2012).
Effect of extra-pair paternity and parental quality on brood sex ratio in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus. Folia zoologica.
2011
Vinkler M, Albrecht T (2011).
Phylogeny, longevity and evolution of adaptive immunity. Folia zoologica.
2010
Kreisinger J, Albrecht T, Čížková D, Javůrková V, Munclinger P, Stopka P (2010).
Utilization of a noninvasive genetic methodology for the research on population parameters of waterfowl. Certified Methodology.
2009
Vinkler M, Albrecht T (2009).
Nevyřčené otázky: Receptory vrozené imunity v perspektivě zoologického výzkumu. Folia zoologica.