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CONTESTS:

I won several places in Charles University's Science is Beautiful contest in the Scientific Illustration category:

• 1st and 3rd place in 2012 
• 3rd place in 2013 
• 1st and 2nd place in 2014 
• 1st and 2nd place in 2015 
• Winner of the public "Discover" category in 2016

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FREELANCING EXPERIENCE:

• Illustrations for the upcoming European Breeding Bird Atlas 2, 2018. Available here
• Illustrations for history magazines (Živá Historie, Tajemství české minulosti, Historické války, Časostroj, 100+1): covers, posters, inside illustrations (Extra Publishing); 2013-2016
• Cover art for Ray Reedman's book: Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks: The How and Why of Bird Names; Pelagic Publishing, 2016
• Illustration for Prague ZOO for the project Return of the Wild Horses 2017
• Illustration for the cover of the International Wader Study Group Annual Conference' book of abstracts, 2017
• Inside illustration in the Birdwatch magazine, 9/2016
• Illustrations for IAMS Naturally products, 2015-16: http://www.iams.eu/iams-naturally http://www.cocoon.cz/en/work/aims-naturally
• Scientific illustrations for research concerning percieved beauty of animals - mammals, reptiles and other (Charles University, Department of Zoology); 2014-2015
• Illustrations of North American birds and marine animals for commercial use (brassreminders.com); 2015
• CD cover for Ethos of Nemesis, 2015, and a T-shirt design, 2018
• Shorebird scientific illustrations for Vanellus (= bulletin of the Czech Wader Study Group); 2011-2016
• Politician portraits for Evropské Hodnoty; 2020
• Private commissions (fantasy and bird paintings)

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OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Live radio interview - Radio Wave - with Anna Skoumalová (2019): Here
• The Interview translated for a German radio (2020): Here
• Interview with me and other bird illustrator for Avifauna.cz (2018): Here
• After my first success in Science is Beautiful in 2012 I was interviewed for the Charles University online magazine iForum: here (in Czech); pdf
• An article about me and my art was published in a new section about Czech bird artists in an ornithological bulletin Sluka 9 (2014).

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EDUCATION:

• Bachelor degree in Ecological and Evolutionary biology (Charles University in Prague), 2013
• Bachelor thesis: "Mechanisms of relationship between melanin-based colouration and behavioural syndromes in birds"

• Master's degree: Ecology and Ethology at the department of Zoology, Charles University 
• Diploma thesis: "Epigamic behaviour in male Northern Lapwings: variability of acoustic and visual attributes of song-flight and their relationships with other reproductive traits"

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JOBS:

• Illustrator at Brass Reminders since 2016