Expertise and focus:

European constitutional law and theory, comparative law, jurisprudence; 2019-2025 ERC Starting Grant PI; member of editorial boards of two top journals in the field, European Constitutional Law Review and European Law Open (both published by the CUP); frequent reviewer for top publishers and research foundations (including ERC and British Academy).

Form of mentoring meetings:

Either way, online or offline

Has an experience in:

Academic career, Career in the public sector

Link to CV

Previous mentoring experience: 

Informally, advising a number of younger colleagues both from the Czech Republic and abroad. I have founded an interest group - part of ICON-S (an international learned society on public law), which discusses pros and cons of international and combined careers.

Motivation: 

I have been extremely lucky to meet the right people at the right moment - be it before I left legal practice and went to do a PhD (DPhil) in Oxford, or later, at different points of my career. I just want to give back and do the same for people who try to enter academia now, when everything is so much more difficult for them. And as a "researcher-expat" I especially want to advise colleagues from here, my home country.

Career guidance topics you can discuss with the mentor: 

• Asking essential life questions

• Differences between academic and non-academic careers

• Navigating the job market, employment opportunities

Research related experience the mentor is ready to share with the mentee: 

• Preparation of scientific publications - how to do it correctly, efficiently, and with quality

• Grant writing process, grant application consultation

• Management of science and research in an academic institution

• Consultation on preparation for a job interview;Networking - introducing people in the field

• Participating in events together with a mentee (conferences, symposia, fairs, etc.)

• Utilizing the potential of international internships, conferences, etc.

• Path to an academic position abroad

• Project management

• Navigating the job market in the sector I operate in