Education
| 2007 | Ph.D. under joint supervision in computer science at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France and at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB), Czech Republic |
| 2003 | MSc. (Ing.) in computer science at UWB |
Professional Experience
| 2014 - present | associate professor at UWB |
| 2009 - 2014 | assistant professor at UWB |
| 2007 - 2009 | software engineer at Gefasoft AG in Munich, Germany |
| 2006 - 2007 | assistant professor at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France |
Research Grants
| 2018 - 2021 | "KnowING IPR - Fostering Innovation in the Danube Region through Knowledge Engineering and IPR Management", Interreg Danube DTP2‑076-1.1 (co-investigator), funded by the European Union |
| 2014 - 2015 | "MODINFORM - Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research", MŠMT MOBILITY 7AMB14SK090 (principal investigator), funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2011 - 2014 | "NTIS - New Technologies for Information Society", European Centre of Excellence, CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0090 (junior researcher), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| 2006, 2009 - 2010 | 2C06009 COT-SEWing (project participant), on the semantic Web and natural language processing methods, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2005 | FRVŠ 1347/2005/G1 (principal investigator), on knowledge extraction from the Web content and topology, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2004 - 2005 | RNTL Paploo (project participant), on electronic re-edition, funded by the French Ministry of Education |
Research and Teaching Experience
| Publications | 56 publications in total on data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, information science, and informetrics from which there are 32 journal articles, 19 conference proceedings papers, 3 theses, 1 monograph, and 1 technical report; 34 of the publications are in the Web of Science database |
| Research interests | data mining, information retrieval, information science, informetrics, and scientometrics |
| Courses taught | Web applications, database models and methods, programming structures, user interfaces |
Invited Talks
| 2020 | State Agency on Intellectual Property, Chisinau, Moldova (online). KnowING IPR: Which Data Are Retrieved within the Web Application?. June 30, 2020. |
| 2019 | Patent- und Markenzentrum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany. The KnowING IPR Platform: an Open Access Tool for Advanced IPR Analysis. July 10, 2019. |
| Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Budapest, Hungary. Real-Life IPR Data. April 9, 2019. | |
| 2018 | 10th International Conference on Information Technologies and Information Society (ITIS 2018), Novo mesto, Slovenia. Online Sources of Patent and Bibliographic Data: Accessing and Processing Them. October 25, 2018. |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. July 24, 2018. | |
| 2017 | Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Deggendorf, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Analyse und Bewertung von Publikationen. November 23, 2017. |
| Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia. Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 7, 2017. | |
| 2016 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. August 3, 2016. |
| University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. New Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 26, 2016. | |
| 2015 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nűrnberg, Erlangen, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 21, 2015. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Bibliografické databáze a jejich praktické použití. July 7, 2015. | |
| 2014 | University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Google's PageRank as a Tool for Bibliometric Measurements. August 1, 2014. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Moderní informetrické metody hodnocení vědeckého výzkumu. July 2, 2014. | |
| 2013 | Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 16, 2013. |
| Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Webtechnologien und Webdienste. December 5, 2013. | |
| Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia. PageRank: from Google to citation analysis. July 10, 2013. | |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. PageRank: od Googlu k citační analýze. April 9, 2013. | |
| 2012 | Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Web technologies and services. November 22, 2012. |
| Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. PageRank: von Google zur Zitationsanalyse. July 4, 2012. |
Reviewing Activities
| Article reviews | Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417) |
| Article reviews | Artificial Intelligence Review (ISSN: 0269-2821) |
| Austrian Journal of Statistics (ISSN: 1026-597X) | |
| Computers and Electrical Engineering (ISSN: 0045-7906) | |
| Expert Systems with Applications (ISSN: 0957-4174) | |
| Information Development (ISSN: 1741-6469) | |
| Information Processing and Management (ISSN: 0306-4573) | |
| International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (ISSN: 1947-8186) | |
| IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (ISSN: 1556-603X) | |
| IETE Technical Review (ISSN: 0256-4602) | |
| Journal of Basic and Applied Research International (ISSN: 2395-3438) | |
| Journal of Information Science (ISSN: 0165-5515) | |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ISSN: 2330-1635) | |
| Journal of Scientific Research and Reports (ISSN: 2320-0227) | |
| Kuwait Journal of Science (ISSN: 2307-4108) | |
| Physica A (ISSN: 0378-4371) | |
| Publications (ISSN: 2304-6775) | |
| Science Innovation (ISSN: 2328-7861) | |
| Scientometrics (ISSN: 0138-9130) | |
| Social Network Analysis and Mining (ISSN: 1869-5450) | |
| Webology (ISSN: 1735-188X) | |
| Editorial boards | Acta Electrotechnica et Informatica (ISSN: 1335-8243) |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| SAIEE Africa Research Journal (ISSN: 0038-2221) | |
| Conference programme committees | IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 28 - 30, 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco. |
| Znalosti 2014, September 26 - 28, 2014, Jasná pod Chopkom, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2015, October 1 - 2, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2016, November 3 - 4, 2016, Smolenice, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2017, October 5 - 6, 2017, Pilsen, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2018, October 11 - 12, 2018, Brno, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2019, October 10 - 11, 2019, Košice, Slovakia. | |
| Research grant evaluation | Expert evaluator of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation in the RESTART 2016-2020 Programmes for Research, Technological Development and Innovation (2023) |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of the Slovenian Research Agency within the Public call for the (co-)financing of research projects in 2023 | |
| External reviewer of The Research Council (Oman) in the Block Funding Program 2022 | |
| Reviewer of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia in the IDEAS (2020) and PROMIS 2023 programme calls | |
| Reviewer of the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR) in the 2020 PRIN call | |
| Reviewer of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom) in the call EPSRC Fellowship - Early Career (2020) | |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) in the Small Grant Scheme 2020 Call of the Applied Research Programme | |
| Reviewer and panel member (Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Natural and Technical Sciences, respectively) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Funding Initiative (DAINA 2) Call for Proposals 2020 and Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme Call 2023 | |
| Independent expert of the Bulgarian National Science Fund in the Competition for Financial Support for Basic Research Projects - 2020 | |
| Reviewer of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic in the programme VES15 COST CZ (The European Cooperation in Science and Technology) | |
| External referee of the Romanian National Research Council in the programmes Exploratory Research Projects (PCE2012), Postdoctoral Research Projects (PD2012), and Young Research Teams (RUTE2014) | |
| Institutional evaluation | Expert and panel member (Committee of Natural and Technical Sciences) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Comparative Expert Assessment 2023 |