Petr Pyšek - Curriculum Vitae#

Affiliations:

• Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice (since 1996): Head of the Department of Invasion Ecology since 2004, Deputy Director 2004 - 2011
  
• Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2004 - present)

Expertise and research experience: biological invasions, macroecology, biodiversity, conservation, plant population & community ecology, vegetation succession, urban flora and vegetation, savannah ecology

Qualifications: Charles University Prague (1982); PhD: Institute of Applied Ecology, Czech Agricultural University, Prague (1992); Associate Professor of Botany, Charles University, Prague (2004); Professor of Ecology, Charles University, Prague (2009)

Fellowships: 1991: 6 months as Soros/FCO Visiting Scholar at the Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK; 1994: 10 months as Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK; 2011: 4 months as Visiting Researcher at Lincoln University, New Zealand

Selected grant projects: ALARM: Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks with tested Methods (European Union 6th Framework Programme, 2004 - 2008). – DAISIE: Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (European Union 6th Framework Programme, 2005 - 2007). – PLADIAS Centre of Excellence: Plant Diversity Analysis and Synthesis Centre (Czech Science Foundation, 2014–2018, principal co-investigator). – Macroecology of Plant Invasions: Global Synthesis across Habitats (SynHab) (Czech Science Foundation EXPRO scheme, 2019–2023, principal investigator).

International conferences organized: EMAPi 2: Plant invasions: Theory and applications, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, Czech Republic (1993). – Neobiota: Towards a Synthesis. 5th European Conference on Biological Invasions, Prague, Czech Republic (2008). – EMAPi 15: Integrating Research, Management and Policy, Prague, Czech Republic (200 participants, 2019)

Conferences: Presented 45 invited lectures (22 plenary/keynote) at international conferences in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA.

Teaching record: Students who completed degrees under my supervision: 11 PhD, 7 Masters. Currently registered: 2 PhD

Editorial work: Chief Editor of Preslia – Journal of the Czech Botanical Society (1999 - present). Member of Editorial Boards/Associated Editor: Biological Invasions (1998–, Alien Floras and Faunas section editor 2017 - present); NeoBiota (2012 - present); Diversity and Distributions (2001 - 2018)

SCI citations: 57,834 (WoS Core Collection); 70,187 (WoS All Databases)
H-index: 116 (WoS Core Collection), 123 (WoS All Databases)
Google Scholar citations: 108,995; H-index: 153

Publications: ~500 papers in WoS-indexed journals (including 22 Nature family, 8 Science family, 15 Proceedings of the National Academy USA, 12 Trends in Ecology and Evolution). As of 2024-12-29, 19 papers are designated as ‘Highly Cited Paper’.