General Info
currently living in Brno, Czech Republic
born in 1998 (25 years old)
e-mail: te.pavlikova@gmail.com
Twitter: te_pavlikova
born in 1998 (25 years old)
e-mail: te.pavlikova@gmail.com
Twitter: te_pavlikova
Education
Master's degree in Physical Geography
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
2021–present
Specialisation: Geomorphology & Pedogeography
Thesis: Microplastics in soils of České středohoří
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D.
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
Specialisation: Physical Geography
Thesis: Microplastics in soils of Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D.
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.
My role is to consult the soil conservation measures, to write articles about soil on the project's blog, or to maintain the data
in the Salesforce system. We also started Platform for Regenerative Agriculture, for which
I created and maintain the website.
Awards
FameLab
National finalist
2023
FameLab is an international contest in communicating science.
I applied with a 3-minute stand-up called "Microplastics and where to find them".
The national final will be on September 26, 2023.
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
ESA BIC Czech Republic
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.
Stays Abroad
University of Vienna (Austria)
Freemovers Traineeship
February–June 2023
During the stay in Vienna at the Department of Geology, I was preparing soil samples for microplastics analysis using enzymatic digestion method,
and working with FT-IR spectrometer Bruker Lumos II.
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Erasmus+ Study Stay
September 2019–February 2020
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
- German: A1
- Czech: native speaker
Software
- ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro
- QGIS
- TRIPLOT
- GRADISTAT
- EarthExplorer, EO Browser
- MS Office
- Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, GIMP
- WordPress + Elementor, Wix
- Salesforce
Programming and other languages
- ★★★☆☆ Python
- ★★☆☆☆ R
- ★★☆☆☆ JavaScript
- ★☆☆☆☆ PHP
- ★☆☆☆☆ SQL, PostGIS
- ★★★★☆ HTML
- ★★★★☆ CSS, SCSS
Volunteering
Workaway
Sillyflatt Farm, Scotland
July 2019
For a couple of weeks, I worked at this small family-run 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 also 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