Research Team Archives - Anglo-American University in Prague /directory-department/research-team/ AAU is a top private university in Czech Republic offering dual accredited bachelor and master level programs in English across Business, tv Relations, Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Science, Journalism, Media Studies, Visual Arts and Law. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:44:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Magdaléna Svobodová /directory/magdalena-svobodova/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:16:32 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=35989 Magdaléna Svobodová graduated from Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, in 1999 (master’s degree). In 2006, she earned her PhD from Charles University, Faculty of Law, specialization Constitutional Law, EU law, International Law. She was appointed Associate Professor at the same institution in 2022, in the field of European law. Svobodová started her career in […]

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Magdaléna Svobodová graduated from Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, in 1999 (master’s degree). In 2006, she earned her PhD from Charles University, Faculty of Law, specialization Constitutional Law, EU law, International Law. She was appointed Associate Professor at the same institution in 2022, in the field of European law.

Svobodová started her career in the Parliamentary Institute, Parliament of the Czech Republic. She served as a legal advisor in the area of approximation of laws during the process of accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Later, she worked in law firms and focused on civil law and commercial law. She passed the bar examination in 2012; she is an attorney-at-law registered with the Czech Bar Association under number 14205. In 2012, she started her academic career at Metropolitan University Prague. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Department of European Law. She became a lecturer and a guarantor at AAU in 2026. Svobodová is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. She specializes in EU law, in particular in Union citizenship, free movement of persons and fundamental rights protection in the EU. She is a member of Czech Association of European Studies. 

Courses:

  • European Union Law I and II
  • Human Rights in European Union

Publications List

  • Malíř, J., Svobodová, M. Coordinating National Responses to Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health in the European Union: European Health Union and beyond. Review of European Administrative Law No. 1/2025, pp. 35-56.
  • Svobodová, M. „Acts“ and „Laws“ of the European Union: a Step Towards the Federalisation of the EU? The Lawyer Quarterly No. 1/2024, pp. 53-65.
  • Tomášek, M., Šmejkal, V. a kol. Smlouva o EU. Smlouva o fungování EU. Listina základních práv EU. Komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2022, 1696 p., co-author (EN: Treaty on EU. Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Commentary).
  • Svobodová, M. Fundamental Rights of the EU, Czech Legal Order, entry in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism, eBook, Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 1-18.
  • Svobodová, M. Občanství Evropské unie. Praha: Auditorium, 2021, 359 p. (EN: Citizenship of the European Union).

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]]> Dr. Lenka Martinec Novakova /directory/dr-lenka-martinec-novakova/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:30:10 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=34487 Martinec Nováková is an instructor and researcher in the behavioral sciences with a primary research focus on the chemical senses, particularly olfaction. She completed a Masters in Biological Anthropology in 2008, followed by a Ph.D. in General Anthropology in 2013. Her work examines how the sense of smell develops and functions across the human lifespan, […]

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Martinec Nováková is an instructor and researcher in the behavioral sciences with a primary research focus on the chemical senses, particularly olfaction. She completed a Masters in Biological Anthropology in 2008, followed by a Ph.D. in General Anthropology in 2013. Her work examines how the sense of smell develops and functions across the human lifespan, its role in cognition, emotion, and social behavior, and its broader implications for health and well-being.

She has led multiple grant-funded projects on olfactory perception, developmental psychology, and affective processes. Her research has been published in leading international journals and has contributed to advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of sensory processes within psychology and behavioral sciences. She is an active member of several international professional societies dedicated to chemosensory science and human ethology, including the European Chemoreception Research Organization.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, reading popular cosmology books, practicing aromachology, and pole dancing.

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]]> Prof. Matúš Šucha, Ph.D. /directory/prof-matus-sucha-ph-d/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:52:29 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=34475 Matúš Šucha is a Czech traffic psychologist and a professor of psychology. His main area of professional interest is traffic psychology, with a specific focus on mobility and traffic safety. He is a court-appointed expert and a EuroPsy mentor in the field of traffic psychology. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Presidium of the […]

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Matúš Šucha is a Czech traffic psychologist and a professor of psychology. His main area of professional interest is traffic psychology, with a specific focus on mobility and traffic safety. He is a court-appointed expert and a EuroPsy mentor in the field of traffic psychology. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Presidium of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. He is the author of numerous publications focusing on the human factor in transport. Matúš Šucha is an active member of several prestigious international organizations and, among other roles, serves as Vice President of ICTCT – International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety.

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]]> doc. PhDr. Gabriela Malkova, Ph.D. /directory/doc-phdr-gabriela-malkova-ph-d/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:32:28 +0000 / Gabriela Málková is the founder and director of the AAU Institute of Applied Psychology and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Anglo-American University in Prague. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at Charles University and, since 2002, has pursued an academic and research career at its Faculty of Humanities and Faculty […]

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Gabriela Málková is the founder and director of the AAU Institute of Applied Psychology and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Anglo-American University in Prague. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at Charles University and, since 2002, has pursued an academic and research career at its Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Education, later serving as Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Humanities. Her research focuses on literacy development, early language and phonological skills, and their role in reading and spelling acquisition across languages, with a strong interest in advancing applied research that bridges theory and practice.

She has developed and co-developed several diagnostic and intervention tools widely used in Czech educational and counselling practice and has contributed to many national and international research projects, including the Multilingual Assessment Battery of Early Literacy (MABEL) (). She is a member of the International Society for Scientific Studies of Reading and a founding member of the European Literacy Network. Alongside her research, she has extensive experience in lifelong learning programs for professionals in psychology, counselling, and speech therapy, and is dedicated to mentoring students and early career researchers.

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]]> Michael Fanta, Ph.D. /directory/michael-fanta-ph-d/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:57:27 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=23823 Michael holds a master’s degree from the University of Economics in Prague and a PhD in Applied Economics from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, his studies in the latter case primarily focusing on the regulation of addictive behaviors. Additionally, he completed a research internship at Pompeu Fabra University. Michael currently works as chief analyst at the […]

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Michael holds a master’s degree from the University of Economics in Prague and a PhD in Applied Economics from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, his studies in the latter case primarily focusing on the regulation of addictive behaviors. Additionally, he completed a research internship at Pompeu Fabra University. Michael currently works as chief analyst at the Center for Economic and Market Analysis in Prague, where he analyzes the impacts of regulations and taxation on the business sector.

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]]> PhDr. Radek Soběhart, PhD /directory/phdr-radek-sobehart-phd/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:31:58 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=22253 Radek studied political science and history and received his PhD in general history from the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University. During his studies, he spent several semesters at various German universities (Berlin, Heidelberg and Bayreuth). Radek taught economic history, history of international relations, economic policy, introduction to economics, and introduction to management at the […]

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Radek studied political science and history and received his PhD in general history from the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University. During his studies, he spent several semesters at various German universities (Berlin, Heidelberg and Bayreuth).

Radek taught economic history, history of international relations, economic policy, introduction to economics, and introduction to management at the University of Economics, Metropolitan University (Prague), the University of Technology and Economics (České Budějovice), and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (Ústí nad Labem) (UJEP). He is currently the director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Studies at UJEP.  

Radek focuses on political-economic analysis (electoral systems, party financing, and impact assessment of economic regulation), the history of economic thought, and modern European history. 

He has been involved in project management for a long time and has extensive experience in managing national and international projects (GAČR, TAČR, OPVV, OPJAK, COST, Interreg, Horizon). Since 2022, he has held the position of director of research at AAU.

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]]> doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D. /directory/doc-jakub-jirsa-ph-d/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:43:05 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=18192 Jakub Jirsa holds his PhD in Philosophy from the Central European University. He was Jan Patočka Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Wien) and visiting scholar at the Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge). Jakub Jirsa publishes on ancient philosophy as well as modern ethics and political philosophy; see his profile […]

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Jakub Jirsa holds his PhD in Philosophy from the Central European University. He was Jan Patočka Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Wien) and visiting scholar at the Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge). Jakub Jirsa publishes on ancient philosophy as well as modern ethics and political philosophy; see his profile on or . He has co-authored and edited several volumes including Obec a duše. K Platónově praktické filosofie (2014), On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities (2023), Přístupy k etice III (2016) or Idea university (2015). Jakub is currently on leave from AAU.

Specializations:

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Recent publications (selected):

  • Jirsa, Jakub (ed.), On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities, Karolinum, Praha 2023.
  • On Universities and Contemporary Society: The Issue of Trust, in: V. Kolman, T. Murár (eds.), Devouring One’s Own Tail: Autopoiesis in Perspective, Karolinum, Praha 2022, 228-247.
  • The Sublunary Domain (Chapters 2–3,392a31–393a8), in: P. Gregorić, G. Karamanolis (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos), Cambridge University Press 2020, 62-79.
  • The concept of ὅρος between Aristotle’s two Ethics, Listy filologické 144, 1-2, 2021, 7-41.
  • The Structure of Courage in the Laches, Meno and Protagoras, Elenchos, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 143-164.
  • Dialog „Kritón“. Lze přemlouvat zákony? Filosofický časopis 68, 2020/3, 387-406.
  • Kdo je Alkibiadés? O různých identitách v dialogu Alkibiadés větší. Reflexe, 2019 (57), 5-33.
  • Divine Activity and Human Life. Rhizomata, 2017, 5 (2), 210-238.
  • Jakub Jirsa (ed.), Přístupy k etice III, Filosofia, Praha 2016.

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]]> Jakub Drábik, Ph.D. /directory/jakub-drabik-ph-d/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:17:42 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=16872 Jakub Drábik is an assistant professor at Anglo-American University, Masaryk University in Brno, and a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014 and spent time as a visiting research scholar at Oxford Brookes University, Wroclaw University, Central European […]

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Jakub Drábik is an assistant professor at Anglo-American University, Masaryk University in Brno, and a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014 and spent time as a visiting research scholar at Oxford Brookes University, Wroclaw University, Central European University, and most recently, Vienna University. He is mainly interested in comparative fascism studies in his research, particularly British and Czech fascism. His research and teaching, however, cover a broad range of topics from the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. He is the author of three books and many other publications.

Specialization

History of fascism; European fascisms, British and Czechoslovak interwar history; history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Publications (selected)

Books

  • DRÁBIK, Jakub – RÁKOSNÍK, Jakub (eds.). Od bouře k bouři. Československo, Evropa a svět mezi dvěma světovými válkami (1918–1938/39). Praha: Nakladatelství Academia, 2022.
  • NEŠŤÁKOVÁ, Denisa – GROSSE-SOMMER, Katja – KLACSMANN, Borbála – DRÁBIK, Jakub (eds.). If this is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub (ed.). Operation Danube reconsidered : The intenational Aspects of the Czechoslovak 1968 Crisis. Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, 2021.
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Fašizmus [Fascism]. Bratislava: Premedia, 2019
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Fašista. Příběh Oswalda Mosleyho [Fascist. The story of sir Oswald Mosley] Praha: Academia, 2017.
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Mýtus o znovuzrození. Britská unie fašistů a její propaganda. [Myth of Rebirth. Propaganda of the British Union of Fascists] Praha: Nakladatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, 2014, ISBN 978-80-7308-520-9

Research Papers/Studies

  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. “With courage against the system.” The ideology of the people’s party our Slovakia. In Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2023, pp. 1-18. DOI:
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Pomalé překračování tradičních mezí. Fašismus v první ČSR jako metodologický problém české, slovenské a československé historiografie z hlediska historiků „nového konsenzu“ [Slowly Crossing the Traditional Boundaries. Fascism in the First Czechoslovak Republic as a Methodological Problem of Czech, Slovak and Czechoslovak Historiography from the Point of View of Historians of the “New Consensus”]. In Soudobé dějiny, 2022, roč. 29, č. 2, pp. 379-414.
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. Corporatist models in the ideology of the Czechoslovak National Fascist Community. In An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism : Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America. – London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022, pp. 137-153
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. A very long shadow: the Munich Agreement in post-war Czechoslovak communist propaganda, ideology and historiography, 1948–1989. In. The Munich Crisis and the People. International, Transnational and Comparative perspectives. Manchester: Manchester university press, 2021, pp. 44 – 65.
  • DRÁBIK, Jakub. The History of Czech Fascism: A Reappraisal. In. IORDACHI, Constantin – KALLIS, Aristotle (eds.). Beyond the Fascist Century: Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 177-194.

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]]> prof. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. /directory/doc-phdr-zuzana-havrankova-ph-d/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:07:07 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=16590 Zuzana Havránková is a Professor of Economics at Charles University in Prague, Senior Lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague, and Research Affiliate at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford. She specializes in labor economics, international economics, and tool development and applications of meta-analysis in economics. Dr. Havránková has published as corresponding author in leading journals, including the Review […]

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Zuzana Havránková is a Professor of Economics at , Senior Lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague, and Research Affiliate at the . She specializes in labor economics, international economics, and tool development and applications of meta-analysis in economics. Dr. Havránková has published as corresponding author in leading journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Nature Communications, European Economic Review, and Review of Economic Dynamics, with over 30 peer-reviewed articles to her name. Her work has been cited approximately  and recognized in top journals such as Science and the American Economic Review. Her research has had significant real-world impact: her paper on daylight saving time has informed policy debates in the US Congress and European Parliament and has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times and Der Standard. Nobel laureate Tom Sargent has used her work in his book on . Her studies in macroeconomics and international economics have been referenced in policy materials by the IMF, OECD, World Bank, and European Commission.

Dr. Havránková maintains the website , which provides data and codes for meta-research;  forthcoming in JPE Micro is built entirely on this resource. She is Associate Editor for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys and has been active in international networks such as the Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network, collaborating with researchers at institutions including the University of California, Berkeley, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, and Stanford. Her academic achievements have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Katerina Smidkova Award from the Czech Economic Society (for the top Czech female economist), Editor’s Prize for best paper in Experimental Economics in 2024, and prizes from the Czech National Bank, National Bank of Slovakia, Czech Ministry of Education, and Global Development Network. According to , she ranks among the top 150 female economists worldwide and is currently the most cited Czech female economist.

Specializations

Her research interests span several fields, including:

  • international economics
  • energy and environmental economics
  • labor economics
  • macroeconomics
  • banking

Selected publications

2025 Spurious Precision in Meta-Analysis of Observational Research, Nature Communications, forthcoming (with Bom, Havranek, and Rachinger)

2025 Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (with Opatrny, Havranek, and Scasny)

2024 Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution, Review of Economics and Statistics 106(5), pp. 1187-1200 (with Laslopova, Havranek, and Zeynalova).

2023 Intertemporal Elasticity in Labor Supply: A Meta-Analysis, Review of Economic Dynamics 51, pp. 1095-1111 (with Elminejad, Horvath, and Havranek)

2022 Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias, Review of Economic Dynamics 45, pp. 55-82 (with Gechert, Havranek, and Kolcunova).

2022 Individual Discount Rates: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Evidence, Experimental Economics 25(1), pp. 318-358 (with Matousek and Havranek).

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]]> Jiří Schwarz, Ph.D. /directory/dr-jiri-schwarz/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:15:17 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=15603 Jiří has been active in research and teaching since 2009, primarily at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Economics. Alongside his academic career, he has gained significant policy experience at the Czech National Bank, serving as advisor to several members of the Bank Board, including the Deputy […]

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Jiří has been active in research and teaching since 2009, primarily at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Economics. Alongside his academic career, he has gained significant policy experience at the Czech National Bank, serving as advisor to several members of the Bank Board, including the Deputy Governor.

His research focuses on international economics, finance, monetary policy, and institutional economics. He has published in internationally recognized journals such as the Journal of International Economics and the Review of World Economics. According to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ranking, he is among the top 50 Czech economists in terms of publications over the past decade.

From 2023 to 2025, Jiří served as principal investigator of the grant project Survey of Short-Term and Long-Term Inflation Expectations of Czech Households (TQ01000396), funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, with Charles University and the Czech National Bank as co-investigators. He is also a co-investigator on two Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) projects: Disentangling p-hacking from publication bias in finance research (24-11583S, with Charles University as principal investigator) and Understanding Household Responses to Inflation: Insights from Randomized Controlled Trials after High Inflation (25-17769S, with the Czech Academy of Sciences as principal investigator).

Outside of his professional work, Jiří is a father of two young children. In rare quiet moments, he enjoys reading fantasy literature and playing video games.

Selected publications:

  • Ace in Hand: The Value of Card Data in the Game of Nowcasting, Czech National Bank Working Paper 14/2023, 2023. (with T. Adam, J. Bělka, M. Hlůže, J. Matějů, and H. Prause)
  • Estimating the Armington elasticity: The importance of study design and publication bias, Journal of International Economics, 127, 103383, 2020. (with J. Bajzík, T. Havránek, and Z. Iršová)
  • Bankruptcy, Investment, and Financial Constraints: Evidence from the Czech Republic, Eastern European Economics, 56(2), 99-121, 2018. (with M. Pospíšil)
  • Dynamic Elasticities of Tax Revenue: Evidence from the Czech Republic, Applied Economics, 48(60), 5866-5881, 2016. (with T. Havránek and Z. Iršová)
  • Impact of Institutions on Cross-Border Price Dispersion, Review of World Economics, 148(4), 617-645, 2012.

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