my full Curriculum Vitae

Working Experience

• 2009-2010 Lecturer Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Course taught: ‘Introduction to Applied Quantitative Methods’

• 2009 Lecturer New York University - Prague, Czech Republic

Course taught: ‘West European Comparative Politics’

• 2009 Lecturer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Course taught: ‘Introduction to European Politics’

• 2006-2009 Research Assistant Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Party

Positioning, UNC, Chapel Hill, USA

• 2005-2008 Teaching Assistant UNC Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Course assisted: ‘Introduction to European Politics,’ ‘Eastern European

Politics,’ ‘Europe and Islam’

• 2003-2005 Teaching Assistant College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

Tutoring and lecturing of Post-Graduate students, coordination of academic program.

Education

• 2005– PhD in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill, NC, USA (ABD status achieved in December 2008)

Dissertation: ‘Struggle Over Dimensionality: Political Competition in Europe’

Dissertation Committee: Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, John Stephens, James

Stimson, Milada Anna Vachudova, Georg Vanberg

MA Thesis: ‘The Content and Nature of Political Competition in Europe:

Conceptualizing Political Space and Axis of Party Competition’ supervised

by Prof. Gary Marks

• 2003 MA in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of

Europe, Bruges, Belgium

Graduated at the top of the class. MA thesis selected as one of best five.

MA Thesis: ‘The Development of the Czech Political Party System and the

Evolution of Party Identities within it’ supervised by Prof. Rudolf Hrbek

• 2002 BA in Political Science and German Literature, McGill University,

Montreal, Canada

Graduated with First Class Honours

• 1999 Phillipps Universit¨at Marburg, Intensive Summer Language Course,

Marburg, Germany

• 1998 Gymnasium Jana Keplera, Prague, Czech Republic Graduated

with Honours

Grants and Awards

• 2009 European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Ernst Haas Dissertation Summer Fellowship (USD$ 1,500)

• 2009 European Union Center of Excellence Summer Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USD$ 5,000)

• 2008 Earle Wallace Award for Graduate Student Teaching, University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USD$ 900)

• 2005 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

(SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (CAD$ 80,000)

• 2005 Le Fonds qu´eb´ecois de la recherche sur la nature et les tech-

nologies (FQRN) Doctoral Scholarship (CAD$ 60,000) – declined for reasons

of award compatibility

• 2003 Department of Politics and Administration Award, College of

Europe, Bruges Best student of the year.

• 2002 Le Fonds qu´eb´ecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRN) Scholarship for Master Degree Research (CAD$ 30,000)

• 2001 European Community Studies Association ECSA-Canada Mike

Shah Memorial Bursary for the study at the College of Europe (CAD$ 8,000)

• 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Dean’s Honours List, Faculty of Arts, McGill

University