doc. RNDr. Eduard Petrovský, CSc.

Eduard Petrovsky was born in 1959 in Kezmarok, Slovakia. He graduated in 1984 from solid state physics at P.J. Safarik University in Kosice (Slovakia). Since then he has worked at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy in Prague, where he obtained the CSc (equivalent to PhD) degree in 1995. In 2016 he was granted the Doc. (associate professor) degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At present, he serves as the Deputy Director and Chair of the Board of the Institute of Geophysics. He was involved in the management structures of the International Association of geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) as Vice President (2011-2015) and President (2015-2019), and International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) as the Bureau member (2019-2023). In his research, he focuses on magnetic properties of rocks, soils and environmental substances, and their application to environmental and paleoclimatic issues. He was principal investigator of several projects of the Czech Science Foundation, Czech Academy of Sciences, and scientific coordinator of EU-funded project MAGPROX (3/2000-2/2004). He has been involved in several international collaborations with partners from, e.g., Poland, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Germany. Last but not least, he serves as Associate Editor of Geophysical Journal International. Since 2000 he acted as the main organizer of biennial international meetings on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism. In terms of expert activities, he was, e.g., expert evaluator of 5RP and 6RP EU Projects (Marie Curie mobility actions), member of expert panel of the Czech Science Foundation (2013-2016, 2023-now ), member of a Board for Doctoral Studies at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, and member of attestation board at the Institute of Physics, Czech Acad. Sci. He was regularly lecturing at University Aix-Marseille III, France, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Until now he was co-editor of two books (published by Springer and Cambridge University Press), and author or co-author of more than 90 papers with more than 2650 citations, more than 2460 of them being without self-citations. His actual h-index is 27.