Zuzana Heřmanová. Palaeontological Department, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00, Prague 9, Czech Republic. zuzana.hermanova@nm.cz
Zuzana Heřmanová graduated at the Charles University, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Prague (Czech Republic). She is palaeobotanist in the National Museum of Prague. She focuses on Cretaceous palaeobotany, fossil insect egg and X-ray methodology. Her main area of interest are plant reproductive structures, especially flowers, fruits and seeds.
Martina Kočová Veselská. Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., Department of Palaeobiology and Paleoecology, Rozvojová 269, 165 00 Prague 6, Lysolaje, Czech Republic and Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic. martina.veselska@natur.cuni.cz
Martina Kočová Veselská received her Ph.D. from the Charles University, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2018; her doctoral thesis was titled "Crustacea (Decapoda, Cirripedia) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin". Since 2018, she has been working as a graduate specialist at the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague and as a junior researcher of the Center for Geosphere Dynamics at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. Her research interests include the fossil record, taphonomy and biogeography of decapod crustaceans and cirripedes, as well as the study of hard substrate communities (sclerobionts) and bioerosion processes.
Tomáš Kočí. Palaeontological Department, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00, Prague 9, Czech Republic and Ivančická 581, 19900 Prague 9 - Letňany, the Czech Republic. protula@seznam.cz
Dr. Tomáš G. Kočí PhD is interested about Mesozoic and Cenozoic tube-dwelling polychaetes and cirripedes. Furthermore, his interest is in phylogeny, evolution, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography and taphonomy of both these fossil groups. He is interested in fieldworks and rescue fieldworks in Bohemian Cretaceous localities. He works as teacher of biology, chemistry on upper seconday nursery school and biophysics, biochemistry, genetic and anatomy and physiology of Higher medical school in Prague. He is not employed in any research institution, his interested topic is a nice hobby, a little big horse.
Manfred Jäger. Lindenstrasse 53, 72348 Rosenfeld, Germany. langstein.jaeger@web.de
Manfred Jäger, born 1954, is a retired but still active paleontologist. His main profession from 1988 until 2013 had been at the museum of Jurassic fossils named "Werkforum", run by and located at the HOLCIM cement plant, situated in the industrial estate of the small village of Dotternhausen, circa 80 kilometres southwest of Stuttgart, southwest Germany. His work in the museum and in the local quarries focussed on the well preserved large fossils from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale: ichthyosaurs, crocodiles, ammonites and huge groups of crinoids, a fauna very similar to that of the famous locality Holzmaden. However, his main interest, as a scientist as well as a collector, always focussed on small to medium-sized marine invertebrates from the Jurassic to the Neogene, especially on polychaete (serpulid and sabellid) tube worms and on crinoids.
Jana Bruthansová. Palaeontological Department, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00, Prague 9, Czech Republic. jana.bruthansova@nm.cz
Jana Bruthansová is a paleontologist from the National Museum of Prague, she is the curator of the Paleozoic invertebrate fossil collections. She concerned mainly on the paleobiology and taphonomy of Middle and Upper Ordovician invertebrates and trilobites. After long maternity leave she returned back to these topics and is currently focused on the paleobiology and systematics of Ordovician Bohemian conulariids.
Radek Mikuláš. Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., Department of Palaeobiology and Paleoecology, Rozvojová 269, 165 00 Prague 6, Lysolaje, Czech Republic. mikulas@gli.cas.cz
RNDr. Radek Mikuláš, CSc. & DSc. studied geology and palaeontology at the Charles University in Prague where he obtained the RNDr. title in 1987. After a 1-year military service he entered the Institute of Geology and Geotechnics, Czechoslovak Academy of Science (title CSc. - equivalent to PhD. in 1991). In 1992, the institution was transformed to the Institute of Geology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Here he spent most time of his academic career, with 1-year interruption during the Royal Society scholarship in the University of Liverpool (supervisor T.P. Crimes). He became the Head of the Department of Paleobiology and Paleoecology (1989-1997) and in 2019 he defended the title Doctor of Sciences (DSc.) by the Committee of the Academy of Sciences.
Mikuláš regularly teaches Ichnology and Paleoecology in the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, and Geology for Archaeologists in the Faculty of Arts. Besides numerous distinctive topics in the study of trace fossils (ichnology), Mikuláš also published a dozen reviewed works on the weathering of porous rocks and several papers on processes ongoing in natural ice.
