General Info

currently living in Brno, Czech Republic
born in 1998 (24 years old)
e-mail:
Twitter: te_pavlikova

Education

Master's degree in Physical Geography

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
2021–present
Specialization: Geomorphology & Pedogeography
Thesis: Microplastics in soils of České středohoří,
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D.

Bachelor's degree in Geography and Cartography

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
2017–2021
Specialization: Physical Geography
Thesis: Microplastics in soils of Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D.

High school

Gymnázium Brno, tř. Kpt. Jaroše 14
2013–2017

Jobs

Consultant for Soil Conservation

Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation
2022–present
Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation is a non-profit environmental organisation. I work in the Living Soil project, which aims to stop the massive degradation of arable soils in the Czech Republic, mainly through the landowners. My role is to consult the soil conservation measures for the particular land, to write articles about soil on the project's blog, or to maintain the data in the Salesforce system.

Awards

The Best Student Scientific Work

Contest of the Czech Geographical Society
2021
I won the contest for the best student scientific work with my Bachelor thesis about microplastics in the Outer Hebrides.

Copernicus Hackathon Brno

2019
With my team REmoteCULT, we won the Copernicus Hackathon with our idea to use remote sensing to monitor the recultivation of closed mine areas.

Foreign Stays

University of Ljubljana

Erasmus+ Study Stay
Autumn semester 2019
I spent one semester abroad at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. I attended the following courses: Geography of Slovenia, Physical Geography of Karst, Geoinformatical Support to Decision-Making, and Environmental Geography.

Skills

Languages

  • English: B2
  • Russian: A1
  • Slovene: A1
  • Czech: native speaker

Software

  • ArcMap
  • QGIS
  • Geomatica (basics)
  • StatSoft STATISTICA
  • AHP-OS
  • TRIPLOT
  • GRADISTAT
  • JOSM Editor
  • EarthExplorer, EO Browser
  • MS Office
  • Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, GIMP
  • WordPress + Elementor
  • Salesforce

Programming and other languages

  • Python (a bit more than basics)
  • R (basics)
  • JavaScript (basics)
  • SQL, PostGIS
  • HTML
  • CSS, SCSS

Volunteering

Workaway

Sillyflatt Farm, Scotland
July 2019
For a couple of weeks, I worked at this small family organic farm, where I tried different things, from feeding the animals, collecting eggs, and helping with the sheep, to gardening.

Conservation Work Parties

John Muir Trust, Scotland
Summer 2018
I participated in two work parties in which we maintained the sand and stone road up to the hill, created a new road in ferns, built up a dry stone wall, built a new stone road, and cleaned up two beaches from plastics.

Work with Children and Youth

Salesian Youth Centre, Mensa Czech Republic
2014–2018
I volunteered for children and youth mainly when I was in high school. I co-led a few summer camps for talented children and youth within the Mensa Czech Republic. I aso participated in Salesian Youth Centre, where I led a free-time media group "Reporters", focusing mainly on writing, and I was a part of the "free club", which is an open space for children and youth meant for their safe meeting, and for example, playing sports, table games, chatting.

Editor-in-Chief

High school magazine
2014–2017
My tasks as an editor-in-chief were, beside writing articles, organising the contributors, editing and proofreading the articles, and the web administration. The magazine won 3rd place at a regional competition "School Magazine of the Year".

Interests & Hobbies

Interests

  • microplastics in the environment
  • land–climate interaction
  • soils and sustainable agriculture
  • spatial modelling
  • elephants 🐘
  • wolves–humans relationship
  • humans and the environment in the prehistorical age
  • autism spectrum

Hobbies

  • knitting
  • sewing
  • hiking & backpacking
  • web development
  • writing short stories
  • squash, inline skating, jumping fitness