Rector

Agenda:

• Heads and represents Charles University

• Directs the Rector’s Board and the extended Board of the Rector and the Scientific Council of Charles University

• Represents Charles University in the Czech Rectors' Conference and other bodies

• Appoints (or dismisses) vice-rectors and the bursar

• Submits the Charles University budget and annual reports

Professional profile:

Professor Králíčková has been the rector of Charles University since 1 February 2022. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Plzeň, and spent a year in the USA thanks to a Fulbright Commission at the Reproductive Endocrine Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. After completing her Ph.D., she worked at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic of the University Hospital in Plzeň in the field of gynaecology and obstetrics, embryology scientific work and also taught at the Institute of Histology and Embryology. Subsequently, she worked at the Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň as the Vice-Dean for Development and Head of one of the two research programmes of the Biomedical Centre in Plzeň. In 2013, Králíčková became the Vice-Rector for Education at Charles University, a position she held until 2022. She has two daughters.

Work experience:

• Since 2022 - Rector of Charles University

• 2014 to 2022 - Vice-Rector of Charles University for Education

• 2011 to 2022 - Head of the Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University

• 2010 to 2014 – Vice-Dean for Development of the Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University

• 1996 to 2022 - Doctor at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic at the Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň and the University Hospital in Pilsen

• from 1996 to present - member of the team of the Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University

Education:

• 2016 - Professor (Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Charles University)

• 2008 - Associate Professor (Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University)

• 2006 - obtained specialized medical competence in gynaecology and obstetrics

• 2000 - Ph.D. (doctoral programme in anatomy, histology and embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University)

• 2002 - first degree attestation in gynaecology and obstetrics

• 1996 - M.D. (general medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University)

Teaching activity

Long-time lecturer at Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University

Foreign internships:

2006 - Internship at the Regea Cell Tissue Center at Tampere University (Finland)

1998 to 1999 - Fulbright Commission Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston (USA)

Publication and creative activities:

92 scientific papers

Web of Science citations 1818 (without self-citations 1716), h-index 22

Popularisation activity:

➤ guarantor of FameLab and many other competitions

Selected grants:

• 2007 to 2009: co-investigator, IGA MZ, No. NR/9135 - 3 "Polymorphism of HLA-G and KIR genes as a potential marker of female fertility disorders - embryo transfer failure and recurrent miscarriage"

• 2005-2007: principal investigator, GA Czech Republic, No. 301/05/0078 "Identification of mutations in genes encoding key cytokines of embryo-endometrial communication in women with idiopathic sterility and recurrent treatment failure"

• 2002 to 2004: principal investigator, GA ČR, No. 301/02/1232 "Identification and characterization of mutations in the leukaemia inhibitory factor gene in women with idiopathic fertility disorders"

• 1998 to 2000: member of the research team, GA CAS, No. A7020809/1998 "The role of the adrenal glands in neuro-endocrine-immune relationships"

Scientific profile (ORCID):

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1907-4774

Other:

Since 2012 so far - Honorary Ambassador of the Fulbright Commission

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