Tereza Leonhardt
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Tereza Leonhardt works part time as assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology where she tries to excite students about possibilities fungi bring to our world. Her scientific career is intertwined with fungi as well, currently delving deep into the phenomenon of heavy metal accumulation in mushrooms. She noticed her friends from UCT have joined this club, thus she decided to join it too. In her free time, she likes to smash the patriarchy and be a good part time mom.
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Vilém Bartůněk
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Vilém Bartůněk is assistant professor in the Department of Inorganic chemistry. His professional interests are very broad, doing everything and nothing. Alongside of advanced superconducting ceramics, inorganic chemistry, and nanotechnology of course including biomedical and environmental research in this area, he is doing some archeometry stuff. As customary in UCT, he is a drunkard and bit kinky. His personal hobbies are juvenile jokes, pubs, and business trips.
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Jáchym Šuman
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Jáchym is an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at UCT Prague. Currently, he keeps an eye on the students in the lab and tries not to stab himself with a pipet while playing around with some microscopic bugs and experimental plants. During his scientific carrier, he has tackled multiple topics, nevertheless, all of them were in some way related to ecology and environmental conservation and restoration. And such are also most of his interests and hobbies – these include watching various scientific talks and subsequently discussing them while having a glass of beer, wacky walks in exciting nature areas and searching for weird plants and various bugs and little beings, and acquainting their life histories. Consequently, he also keeps a bunch of such weirdoes at home, including carnivorous plants and stag and rhino beetles. Apart from that, he’s into reading books and listening to mindful music of all genres.
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Věra Schrenková
| Věra Schrenková is a PhD student who spends her days whispering sweet nothings to molecules and hoping they scream back in Raman. She specializes in spectroscopies using polarized light, computations, and crying gently over spectral baselines. She is now fully trauma-bonded to her Raman microscope, which she lovingly adapted to measure things no one asked for. A FameLab 2024 finalist, she somehow convinced a national audience that vibrational modes are sexy, and she’s been chasing that high ever since. Věra collects rare houseplants, vintage clothes, and unnecessary feelings. She can be also found doing yoga to restore balance and drinking posh beer to immediately destroy it. |
Dajana Kolářová
| I began my scientific journey studying biochemistry at UCT Prague and researching protein structures at IOCB CAS. Since one demanding field clearly wasn’t enough, I chose to continue with a master’s degree in bioinformatics – a space where biological chaos meets algorithmic order. My ADHD brain runs at full speed – constantly connecting disciplines, building systems, testing AI tools, and getting excited about new projects before I finish reading the call for applications. Sometimes this means I’m involved in more things than most calendars can handle.. But in that diversity, I feel most alive. Outside the lab, I have a creative alter ego: I work in photography, visual design, and video production. A scientific poster, a festival identity, and a wedding photoshoot all in one week? Why not. My hobbies include organizing chaos, connecting unrelated ideas, and learning new things just slightly faster than forgetting why I started them. |
Jan Myšák
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Honza Myšák studies the synthesis and production of pharmaceuticals and conducts research at the Department of Organic Chemistry. His main focus in UNIQORN is Wikipedia, which he edits since 2019 when he discovered it to be the perfect place to pursue his dream career of professional grammar nazi. He is rather fond of hiking, pubs, books and heavy metal, not necessarily in this order.
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Jonáš Priškin
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Jonas is a masters student of pharmaceuticals, but more than drugs, his focus is on popularisation, propagation and media activities. Among his hobbies, photography is emerging as a profession, climbing keeps him sane and science + news podcast his ears occupied while biking through Prague. You can find him behind tech at UNIQORN events or in chemical depot assembling another chemistry show.
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Markéta Šoltysová
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Markéta is a PhD candidate at UCT Prague and the initiator of the UNIQORN association. In 2019, she started to organize monthly meetings known as PhD_Post.doc Club, in which PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers have had the opportunity to share their research, try to present in a friendly environment and meet their colleagues. At the beginning of 2022, she decided to broaden this initiative. She called for people to join her, they built up a team and brought new activities that they covered with the UNIQORN association. Markéta does her PhD at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Czech Academy of Science), studying structures of proteins and protein‑DNA complexes and thus revealing the molecular mechanism of their functions. In her free time, she enjoys jogging and walking in nature, loves theatre and flying to worlds of her fantasy.
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