PhDr. Oldřich Tůma, Ph.D.

Oldřich Tůma (1950) His field of research is contemporary history: history of Czechoslovakia after 1945 and history of the Cold War. Earlier, his main area were Byzantine studies.

After high school studied history and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. 1975 was expelled from the university for political reasons. He completed his studies as extramural student (1980; PhDr. 1982; PhD at the Faculty of Social sciences 2007).

Various odd jobs before 1989. At this time, he was doing research in the field of Byzantine history, occasionally publishing in foreign and domestic journals. In 1989, he joined the Institute of Classical Studies of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences full-time, with whose Byzantological department he had previously collaborated (e.g. incognito in the editorial office of the journal Byzantinoslavica). In 1992 or 1993, respectively, after returning from a study stay at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, he moved to the Institute for Contemporary History, where he was (1998-2017 and again 2023) director of the Institute.

He has been member of various academic gremia in the Czech republic and abroad. E.g. member of Doctoral study board at the Facuty of Social Sciences, Charles University or Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences, Silesian University; member of editorial board of Journal of Cold War Studies, Soudobé dějiny, Člověk a spoločnosť and other journals; member of Academic Council of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, or of Hannah Arendt Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, TU Dresden . Since 2021, he has been the Chairman of the Scientific Integrity Committee of the CAS, 2022-2025 president of the European Network of Research Integrity Offices. He has been member of the Science Council of the CAS since 2017.