Tomash Kuchera

Date of Birth: 19 July 1958

Nationality: Czech Republic

EDUCATION

1977-1982. Charles University in Prague (Economic and Regional Geography)

DEGREES

  • 1998. Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno (Economic Geography: dissertation "Regional population forecasts: theory and practice of forecasting population resources in the territory")
  • 1982. Doctorate (RNDr.), Charles University in Prague (Economic and Regional Geography)
  • 1982. M.A., Charles University in Prague (Economic and Regional Geography with specialization  in Demography: diploma thesis „Integration of Migration into Demographic Models").

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/STUDY

  • 2003   St. Petersburg State University (1 week): participation in the UNDP and NISPAcee training program “How to be a better policy advisor” for experts from Central and Eastern Europe (in Russian)
  • 1998-1999     University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Physical Planning and Demography (4 months): developed demography curriculum for population studies in Prague at Charles University and conducted a training project on population forecasting for TEMPUS/ERASMUS students
  • 1987   The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague (3 months): completed intensive study of population forecasting and accuracy of population forecasts, established professional contacts in the field
  • 1985   Institute of Economics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk             (3 months): studied migration modelling and forecasting
  • 1982   Institute of Statistics, University of Copenhagen (1 month): studied advanced techniques    of demographic analysis and methodology of population forecasting.

EMPLOYMENT

  • 2019. Deputy Head of the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
  • 2017-2019. Head of the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
  • 1998-1999. Acting Head of the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
  • 1990-1995. General Secretary of the 1994 International Geographic Union Regional Conference Organizing Committee: - preparing the basic concept, logistics and coordination, financial management, publications; Head of the IGU RC 1994 Secretariat (1993-1994) at Charles University, Prague: - personal management, coordination, promotion and marketing, public relations, contracts
  • 1986. Assistant Professor of Demography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague:  - research, teaching and tutorial work
  • 1982-1986. Postgraduate Research Fellow, Institute of Geography, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno: - research in population geography and demography
  • 1982. Postgraduate Fellow, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague: - demographic analysis

 

Teaching, Training and CONSULTANCY experience

Undergraduate and graduate courses at Charles University in Prague:

   2019-Regional Demography and Demography of Regions – facultative course in English

   2011-Introduction to Demography– undergraduate (BA) course

   2010-Demography for Foreign Students – non Demographers – graduate (MA) course in English for Erasmus+ and other international exchange students

2002-2005. Demography – temporary undergraduate (BA) course for non-demographers (substitution for a colleague on maternity leave)

2002-2005. Population Development of the Czech Republic – temporary undergraduate (BA) course for non-demographers (replacement for a colleague on maternity leave)

2001-2014. Regional Demography – graduate (MA) course      (in Czech and since 2008 also in English)

2000-2014. Applied Demography – graduate (MA) course (in Czech and since 2008 also in English)

1999-2002. Introductory Seminars in Demography – undergraduate (BA) course

1994-2014. Analysis of Incomplete Demographic Data – graduate (MA) course

1992. Population Forecasts – undergraduate (BA) course (in Czech and during 2008-2010 also in English)

1992-1994. Theoretical Demography – graduate (MA) course

1990-1993. Demographic Information Systems – undergraduate (BA) course.

1988-1990. Models and Forecasts in Geography – graduate (MA) course.

1988-1989. The Fundamentals of Economic and Regional Geographical Analysis – graduate (MA) course.

1986-1988. Training and seminars in Statistics and Regional Geography of Czechoslovakia and design and organization of Geographical Excursions – undergraduate (BA) courses

Undergraduate (BA) course in the Prague School of Psycho-Social Studies:

2002-2007. Statistics and Demography

PUBLICATIONS  

§ Trend forecasting for waste generation with structural break (with Veronika Smejkalová, Radovan Šomplák, Vlastimír Nevrlý and Boris Burcin). Journal of Cleaner Production, 266, 2020, 121814. ISSN: 0959-6526. IF 7.246 (2020)

§ Perspektivy demograficheskogo rozvitija Respubliki Uzbekistan (wirh Durbek Akhmedov and other 11 co-authors). Innovatsion rivojlanish nashriyot-matbaa uyi "DUK" for UNFPA in Uzbekistan, Tashkent 2019. ISBN 978-9943-5575-6-7, 62 pp.

§ Socio-demographic determinants of glass recycling in the Czech Republic (with K. Rybová and B. Burcin). Proceedings of 143rd ISERD International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15th-16th December 2018, ISBN 978-93-88350-94-5.

§ The population prospects of Czechia and Slovakia until 2060 (with B. Bleha, B. Burcin, B. Šprocha a B. Vaňo). Demografie, 60, 2018, 219-233.

§ Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic (with K. Rybová, J. Slavík. B. Burcin, J. Soukupová and A. Černíková as the 5th author). Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 20, 3, 2018, 1884-18911. DOI 10.1007/s10163-018-0734-5. ISSN 1438-4957. IF 1.972 (2019)

§ Sweeping ethno-demographic changes in Kazakhstan during the 20th century: A dramatic story of mass migration waves. Part II: International migration in Kazakhstan since 1991 (with A. Saparbekova and J. Kocourková as the 3rd author). AUC Geographica, 50, 1, 2015, pp. 75–90.

§  How old is too old? A contribution to the discussion on age limits for assisted reproduction technique access (with J. Kocourková, H. Konečná, B. Burcin as the 4th author). Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.01.017. ISSN 1472-6483. IF 3.249 (2017)

§  Demographic relevancy of increased use of assisted reproduction in European countries (with J. Kocourková and B. Burcin as the 3rd author). Reproductive Health, 2014, vol. 11, no. 1. Dostupné z: ISSN 1742-4755.

§ Can a magic wand plausibly be used in serious psychological research? The complications of researching the ideal age at which to be a parent through the eyes of the child (with H. Konečná, J. Kocourková, B. Burcin and K. Davidová as the 4th author). Human Affairs, 2014, vol. 24, no. 3, s. 354–362. ISSN 1210-3055

§  Qualitative research in reproductive medicine: From description to action. (with H. Konečná, T. Mardešić and T. Rumpíková as the fourth author). In: The qualitative approach and diversity in social sciences. Human Affairs, 22, 4 (2012), 462-474, DOI: 10.2478/s13374-012-0038-8. IF 0,36 (2014)

§ Upper age limit for access to assisted reproduction: Is it evidence-based, or is it a to never-ending discussion? (with H. Konečná and S. Suda). In: Ben-Rafael, Z., Fauser, B.C.J.M, Frydman, R. (eds.): Proceedings of the14th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility. COGI, Paris 2011. 45-50.

§  Demografická situace České republiky. Proměny a kontexty 1993-2008. [Demographic situation of the Czech Republic. Metamorphoses and contexts 1993-2008] (with B. Burcin, L. Fialová, J. Rychtaříková et al.) Sociologické nakladatelství SLON, Praha 2010, 238 pp.

§  Changing the age structure of the population as a challenge for local authorities: Population prospects for city district Prague 3 (with B. Burcin). In: Kovács, Z. (ed.): Challenges óf Ageing  in Villages and Cities: The Central European Experience. Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, Szeged 2010, 132-160.

§  Population development in the Czech Republic 2007 (with D. Bartoňová, B. Burcin, L. Fialová,  K. Kalibová, J. Kocourková, J. Rychtaříková). Sociologické nakladatelství SLON, Praha 2009, 142 pp.

§ Úmrtnost [Mortality] (with B. Burcin). In: Fialová, L. (ed.): Populační vývoj České republiky 2007. Katedra demografie a geodemografie PřF UK v Praze, Praha 2009, s. 57–71.

§ Vývoj úmrtnosti obyvatel České republiky v evropském kontextu [Mortlity developments of Czech Republic population in European context] (with B. Burcin). In: Fialová, L. (ed.): Populační vývoj České republiky 2007. Katedra demografie a geodemografie PřF UK v Praze, Praha 2009, s. 111–125.

§ The Concept of Replacement Migration and its Application in the Czech Republic (with B. Burcin and D. Drbohlav). Czech Demography, 2, 2009, s. 82–93.

§ Populační vývoj stotisícových měst České republiky [Population Development of One-hundred Thousand´s Cities of the Czech Republic] (with B. Burcin). In: Halás M., P. Klapka a Z. Szczyrba (eds.): Geographia Moravica 1: Sborník prací k šedesátinám doc. RNDr. Václava Touška, CSc. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc 2009, 27-46.

§ Dvanáct autorských map a grafů s doprovodným textem pro oddíl Obyvatelstvo Atlasu krajiny České republiky [Twelve authorial maps and diagrams with accompanying text for the section Population in the Atlas of the Czech Republic landscapes] (with B. Burcin, E. Caithamlová                      and L. Šídlo). In: Hrnčiarová, T., P. Mackovčin, et al: Atlas krajiny České republiky. Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR a Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, v.v.i., Praha – Průhonice 2008, 352 s.

§ Úmrtnost [Mortality] (with B. Burcin). In: Populační vývoj České republiky 2007. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Praha 2008, 57-72. (2009 published in English translation)

§ Možnosti migračního řešení perspektivního úbytku a demografického stárnutí obyvatelstva České republiky (with B. Burcin and D. Drbohlav) [Migration as a possible solution of future population deficits and demographic ageing in the Czech Republic]. Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 44, 2008, 653-682. IF 0,25 (2010)

§ Strukturální změny úmrtnosti v českých zemích a na Slovensku mezi roky 1991 a 2006 (with B. Burcin) [Structural changes of mortality in the Czech lands and Slovakia between the years 1991-2006]. Demografie, 50, 2008, 173-185.

§ Regionální diferenciace odvratitelné a neodvratitelné úmrtnosti v České republice a její vývoj v období 1987–2006 (with B. Burcin) [Regional differentiation of avoidable and unavoidable mortality in the Czech Republic and its developments during the period 1987–2006]. Demografie, 50, 2008, 77-87.

Kompenzačná migrácia v Česku a na Slovensku [Replacement migration in Czechia and Slovakia] (with B. Burcin, D. Drbohlav and B. Vaňo). Forum Statisticum Slovacum 3, 2007, 38-43.


Phone:

+420-222 510 826 (home),

+420-221 951 417 (office),

+420-602 635 223 (GSM)

E-mail: tomas.kuceras@gmail.com  kucera@natur.cuni.cz