She takes care of the Department matters, such as preparation of contracts and personnel agenda, scholarships payments, schedules, property management etc. She tries to keep everything running as it should. Previously, she worked as a secretary at the Faculty of Medicine of MU. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of Modern Greek Language and Literature and during her studies she was several months of study in Greece.

Kristína Markechová works as a project manager and focuses mostly on TAČR and GAČR projects. Apart from that she i salso repsonsible for the study agenda. She studied international relations and european studies at FSS MU. During her studies she focused on the topic of security and the EU and attended internships in the Center for Security Analyses and Prevention and in the Information Center of Europe Direct Brno.

Kristýna Pešáková works as a project manager, mainly in charge of GAČR, TAČR Beta and OPVVV projects. She studied social policy and social work at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. In her academic work, she focused on gender-based violence, violence against women and violence against men in partnership. For many years she worked in the non-profit organization NESEHNUTÍ, where she also gained experience in managing projects of various sizes.

Zdeňka Lechnerová is administrator of TAČR projects (the ÉTA program, Environment for Life), previously managed large-scale projects SOVA and INZA financed from the EC OP and projects supported by the EEA and Norway financial mechanisms. Since 2008, she has worked for four years as a researcher at the Institute for Research on Corporate Reproduction and Integration (IVRIS). In 2010 she completed her master's degree in sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies.

Mgr. Tomáš Chabada holds a Master’s degree in sociology and is now in the Doctoral Program in Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University. At the Department he participates in research projects that deal with the relationship of the Czech public to nature and the environment. In his dissertation, he focuses on public attitudes and behavior of the public regarding climate change. He teaches courses on global environmental problems and on environmental issues in the Czech Republic.

As a doctoral student, Jan focuses primarily on the economy of residential eco-communities. His extensive dissertation research includes numerous eco-community projects in six European countries. As a research specialist, he works on preparing a new international Master’s degree program focused on Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurship, carried out as part of OPRDE Smart Accelerator in the South Moravian Region project.

Mgr. Mikuláš Černík is interested in environmental justice, political ecology, and environmental conflicts. The topic of his dissertation is a comparison of the conditions for protest against coal mining in the Czech Republic and Poland. He works as Dr. Christian Kerschner’s assistant on the VE²ENEX project. This project examines issues related to the vulnerability of economies (and their individual sectors) during transformations of the energy system.

Martin Černý holds degrees in Environmental Studies from the Faculty of Social Studies and in Economic Policy and Administration from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. In his dissertation, he deals with the transition to a low-carbon economy, economic degrowth, and climate justice. He participates in the project MEDEAS – Modelling Energy System Development under Environmental and Socioeconomic Constraints – in which he uses the input-output analysis to model the impact of a low-carbon transition on the structure of employment in the European Union and on the production of greenhouse gas emissions.

Jan Haverkamp is senior nuclear energy and energy policy specialist for Greenpeace and the World Information Service on Energy (WISE), and professional group facilitator. The Dutchman works since 1986 in the development of environmental NGOs in Central Europe. His academic background is in biochemistry, nuclear physics, environmental sciences and social and communication psychology. He teaches ‘facilitation of environmental communication processes’ and ‘the role of environmental NGOs in society’ at the Masaryk University. He lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Mgr. et Mgr. Šárka Křepelková is a doctoral student, an ecopsychologist and a lecturer of developmental courses. She focuses on the topic of children’s contact with nature.

Tereza Modráková has worked mainly as a manager of educational projects OPVK at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University and at FNUSA-ICRC at St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno. Currently, she administers EEA and Norway Grants and other projects at the Department. She holds a degree in sociology from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University and in economics from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University in Brno. During her studies, she spent a year at Université Catholique de Lyon in France.

Thomas Smith researches the role of creativity and craft in grassroots sustainability transitions, with particular interests in post-capitalist social theory (relating to diverse and community economies). Thomas received his PhD in Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, examining the role of the maker movement and community workshops in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is also a member of the editorial collective at the Dark Mountain Project (https://dark-mountain.net/). He is the author of Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn (2018, Palgrave MacMillan), has edited three books for Dark Mountain, and has published in a number of leading geographical journals.

Yanhua is currently working in the iConn project as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher. Her topic is to identify the critical nodes and determinants for transitions in various social-ecological systems, applying methods such as input-out analysis, social network analysis, game theory etc. She holds a master’s degree of rural development jointly issued by Ghent University and Humboldt University, of which her master thesis is to explore the transitional role of informational and knowledge governance in climate change adaptation. Prior to joining the Department of Environmental Studies, she worked in the field of deforestation-free supply chain for NGO and environmental consultancy company.

Mgr. Lucie Sovová is interested in alternative economies and sustainable food systems. Her dissertation deals with food self-provisioning in urban gardens. She was involved in the Department’s research project on allotment gardens. She co-teaches a Bachelor level Seminar on Ecological Economics. She also cooperates with Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Mgr. Renata Svobodová specializes in the psychology of climate change. She is interested in how people perceive climate change, what they feel, and how they cope with it. She participated in the research for “The Czech Public and Climate Change” project, and now she is on the team that maps Czech people’s environmental attitudes and behavior. She received an honorable mention within the Josef Vavroušek Prize for her Master’s thesis. She is the editor of the magazine Sedmá generace [The Seventh Generation].

Mgr. Petra Šimonová studied in the field of environmental protection and then worked for ten years in the non-profit sector as an environmental education methodologist, mainly in teacher-training and the educational program Ekoškola [Ecoschool]. Currently, she does environmental education research. At the Department, she focuses on participative approaches and on developing students’ action competencies. She also participates in the CIVIS project in which she examines the impact of educational programs on the development of civic and social competencies.

Christos is a Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow, with the JHU-UPF Public Policy Centre and the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. His line of research looks at the politics of environmental governance, transformation and conflict in the fields of political ecology, ecological economics, and degrowth. He has worked for the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) managing the FP7 Marie Curie ‘European Network of Political
Ecology’ (ENTITLE), and coordinating the research of the FP7 project ‘Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security’ (CLICO); he has also worked as a Lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh, UK.

Christian Kerschner holds a PhD and a master’s degree in ecological economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a master’s in business and economics from the University of Vienna. He is PI of VE²NEX (Vulnerability and the Energy-Economy Nexus), a research project funded by the Czech science foundation and of the post-carbon economy modelling project MEDEAS (H2020). His main research interests are economic vulnerabilities to Peak Oil, attitudes towards and the role of technology for societal transformation and alternatives macroeconomic narratives with respect to economic growth i.e. Steady State Economy, Degrowth and Post-Growth. Recently Christian finished a special issue on Degrowth and Technology, with 26 contributions and a comprehensive editorial. Currently he is involved in the department's project IMPATECH.