Notable awards
2015 Award of the president of the Czech Science foundation for the project „Macroecology beyond species richness: reconciling ecological and evolutionary processes driving spatial variation of diversity“

Other professional experience
associate editor of journals Ecology Letters (2005-today) and Global Ecology and Biogeography (2016-2023)
member of editorial board of the journal Vesmír (The Universe)
member of the council of the Czech Society for Ecology (2011-2019 and since 2022 president)
field experience: Siberia, Lake Baikal (1992), South Africa (2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020_January, 2020_March, 2022), Papua New Guinea (2010), Cameroon (2011), Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021), Zambia (2018), Tanzania (2019)