Prof. Dr. Lucie Tajcmanova

Lucie Tajčmanová is a full Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Heidelberg University (Germany) since October 2018, leading the ‘Mineralogical and Petrological processes’ group. She implements multidisciplinary approaches to investigate a wide spectrum of coupled chemo-mechanical processes in rocks including field-based studies, deformation experiments and numerical modelling. Her aim is to establish a new perspective to the above mentioned processes and provide new quantitative and physically-based tools for interpreting common structures and microstructures in rocks.

Prior to the Institute of Earth Sciences in Heidelberg, she was at the ETH Zurich (2011-2018) leading the group of Petrology of Lithospheric Processes. She was awarded by prestigious Humboldt fellowship, Marie-Curie fellowship and an ERC starting grant. 

Lucie’s 

Scientific Career and Education:

University Education

• 2007: Ph.D., Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2005: RNDr. (Rerum Naturalium Doctoris), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2002: MSc. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

• 2013-09/2018: Assistant Professor for Metamorphic Petrology at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2011-2013: Post-doc at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland  (Marie Curie fellowship)
• 2009- 2011: Post-doc at the Free University, Berlin, Germany (Humboldt fellowship)
• 2007- 2009: Post-doc at the University of Padova, Italy
• 2004-2007: Lecturer, Institute of Petrology and Structural Geology, Faculty of Natural; Sciences, Charles University, Prague                                               
• 2003-2007: Research and field geologist, Czech Geological Survey, Prague   

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2015: Zonta Prix Switzerland and Lichtenstein
• 2013: ERC starting grant
• 2011: Marie Curie (IEF) fellowship
• 2009: Alexander von Humboldt fellowship
• 2004: Student Fellowship (two months) at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 2003: Josef Hlávka award, Hlávka foundation

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

• since 2021: Associate editor American Journal of Science
• since 2020: Member of the Editorial Board in Geology
• since 2015: Member of the Editorial Review Board in Journal of Metamorphic Geology
• 2015: Guest editor inJournal of Metamorphic Geology

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

• 2014-2020: Convenor/co-convenor of sessions at the EGU meeting
• 2019: Annual DMG meeting: Geochemistry as well as Petrology & Petrophysics, Heidelberg
• 2019: EGU pre-conference fieldtrip
• 2017: International workshop on deformation and mineral reactions I, ETH Zurich
• 2017: Scientific committee for EGU conference series