Database of mentors
The list of names will gradually grow. Please note that you can address a mentor of your own choice who is not in the database. The programme coordinator will help you with it.
Dr. Preston Stovall
Role: Assistant Professor
Area: Philosophy
Employer: University of Hradec Králové, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences
My message to a mentee: I can help the mentee with professional development in both research and teaching, and pursuing employment opportunities for philosophical instruction outside the university.
I am an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic. I work in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, informed by a reading of German and American philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. I am currently participating in Jarda Peregrin's research project on Inferentialism Naturalized: Norms, Meanings, and Reasons in a Natural World. In 2022 I published a monograph, The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition.
In addition to university teaching at private and public institutions, I am an education researcher with Studium Consulting, and I designed, pitched, and ran a course on Aristotelian virtue, Kantian autonomy, and cognitive behavioural therapy at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh in 2016-17. I have since done the same for courses in philosophy with middle school and high school students in Pennsylvania, Montana, and the Czech Republic.
Beginning in 2021, I am the program manager and instructor for Critical Thinking about Social Media, a project to bring media literacy into middle school and high school classrooms in Montana, supported by Humanities Montana and hosted by the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Society at Montana State University.
See more at my page: Preston Stovall (google.com)
doc. PhDr. Blanka Klímová, M.A., Ph.D.
Role: Head of department, Academic Researcher, ELT Teacher
Area: Applied linguistics, Psycholinguistics, ICT in Education, ELT
Employer: University of Hradec Králové
My message to a mentee: I can help mentees with their research in the areas mentioned above, to reach their full potential, stimulate their quest for knowledge, act as their mental support in their program, as well as enhance their academic writing skills.
At present, I am head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Informatics and Management of the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. In addition, I teach English for Specific Purposes with a special focus on the use of ICT in language teaching. I am also a supervisor of both Czech and foreign doctoral students who provide me with constant inspiration for my teaching and research. My main areas of research are English language teaching (ELT), the teaching of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), the use of ICT in ELT and ESP, psycholinguistics, academic writing, and project management. I am also a member of several Editorial Boards, e.g. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology, and Education, a chair or a member of conference committees both at home and abroad, and an editor of several scientific conference proceedings. I like facing challenges and discovering new ways of doing things, especially in the field of research. My motto is: Everything you do, do with pleasure.
ThDr. Martin Dekarli, Th.D.
Role: Lecturer
Area: Manuscript Studies, Medieval Studies (in particular Theology and Philosophy), Bohemian Reformation, History
Employer: University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Arts, Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archive Studies
My message to a mentee: Who dares wins.
My research interests include the Manuscript Culture between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Intellectual History, and the Reformation. I have published essays dealing with the Reception History of Nominalism and Realism in Central Europe (in particular the Tradition of Parisian Nominalism, English 14th Century texts, Prague Realists and Nominalists, Oxford Realists), Bohemian Reformation and the Vernacular, and gave talks in Prague, Konstanz, Tábor, Olomouc, Erfurt, Vienna, Milan, St Andrews, and Oxford. Between 2015 and 2020, I was an associate research fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna (within the ERC Grant OVERMODE and COST scholarships).
During 2017 and 2019, I was a principal investigator of the Post-Doc Research Project "Štěpán of Palecz (d. 1423) Opera logicalia and the Reception of English Logic in Late Medieval Bohemia" awarded by the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR, Nr. 17-08410Y) and hosted at the University of Hradec Králové.
Between 2018 and 2020, I was an editor and symposia co-organiser of The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice (www.brrp.org). Since July 2020, I have been a lecturer at the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové.
prof. Ing. Vladimír Bureš, Ph.D., MBA
Role: Professor
Area: Systems Engineering, System Dynamics, Modelling, Simulation, Systems Theory, Information and Knowledge Management
Employer: University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management
My message to a mentee: I can help you with following: Identification of research topics and opportunities. Establishment of study schedule. Writing manuscripts in relevant areas.
Vladimír Bureš was born in Jaroměř, Czech Republic on 4th August, 1977. He received his bachelor degree in Financial Management (1999), master degree in Information Management (2001), Ph.D. in Information and Knowledge Management (2005) at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, and MBA in Global Management at the City University of Seattle, Washington, USA (2015).
Currently, he works as a full professor of Systems Engineering and the head of the Department of Information Technologies at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. He has already published six books (as author or a member of the authoring team) dealing with various aspects of knowledge management implementation, application of systems thinking in practice or transfer of technology and knowledge; and tens of scientific papers published in several journals or in conference proceedings focused on issues from fields such as system dynamics, systems engineering, information and knowledge management, systems theory and application of ICT in various areas. He has participated in both international and national research projects (e.g. 6th or 7th European Framework Program projects, Erasmus+ focused on digital television as a learning tool, development of tools for training of seniors and development of tools for training in the healthcare domain respectively).
Professor Bureš is a member of program committees and editorial boards of several scientific conferences (e.g. Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development) and journals (e.g. Systems or Information). He is also a member of the System Dynamics Society and the International Council on Systems Engineering.
Further information and publications at researchgate.net
doc. RNDr. Petr Tučník, Ph.D.
Role: Assistant professor
Area: Multi-agent systems and models, Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Modeling, Project Management
Employer: University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management
My message to a mentee: Tips for preparation and management of research projects, Preparation of publications, any advice in my fields of expertise
My research is mainly focused on autonomous (agent-based) systems and modeling, and BPMN analysis. Feel free to contact me for advice or possible research collaboration. I am open to ideas.
PhDr. Radek Buben, Ph.D.
Role: Head of Department
Area: Politics of Latina America, Contemporary history of Latin America, Politics of Southern Europe
Employer: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Centre of Ibero-American Studies
My message to a mentee: Analysis of Ortega's regime Broader context of Latin American Politics Theoretical aspects of the study of political regimes
I´m Charles university graduate, History of Latin America and Political Science. Since the late nineties I have followed the political development of Latin America (mainly Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia) and of Spain and Portugal, approaching both regions from the perspective of theories of political regimes. I also focused on Left-wing political regimes and governments during the so-called Left turn in Latin America. My latest interest is Nicaragua under Ortega and the theories of state and stateness in Latin America. I was head of Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts. Currently I´m the head of the Centre of Ibero-American Studies.
Dr. Orcan Alpar Ph.D. M.Sc.
Role: Visiting professor/researcher in the Center for basic and applied research
Area: Biometrics, Biomedicine, Chaos Theory, Nonlinear Dynamics, Image and Video Processing, Signal Processing, Intelligent Systems and Medical Imaging
Employer: University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management
My message to a mentee: I could, gladly, help with any topics in my research areas and also with academic writing if needed
I've been working at UHK for 7+ years in total in the Center for basic and applied research department/FIM. I received the B.Sc. degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from Yeditepe University, Turkey, M.Sc. degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey and Ph.D. degree in Quantitative Methods from Istanbul University, Turkey, in 2001, 2006 and 2012 respectively. I used to work as a postdoc researcher at the Metropolitan University in Belgrade/Serbia in 2013 and studied on Intelligent Transport Systems. I also had 7 years of job experience in Arkas Holding SA, Turkey, as an IT Consultant/Manager from 2001 to 2008.
See more at researchgate.net
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