Mgr. Ondřej Ledvinka, Ph.D.

Education

• 2016: Ph.D., Charles University, Faculty of Science
• 2008: MSc., Charles University, Faculty of Science

Professional experience

• 2024-today: chair of the working group of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic focused on the use of remote sensing data
• 2023-today: chair of the Regional cooperation of the Danubian Countries in the framework of the UNESCO's Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP Danube)
• 2022-today: vice-chair of the open-ended thematic working group „Bridging data-knowledge gap“ in the framework of the 9th phase of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) UNESCO
• 2013-today: national correspondent for the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• 2012-today: scientific secretary of the Czech National Committee for Hydrology
• 2008-today: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Hydrology Database and Water Budget Department

Research interests

As a statistical hydrologist, I naturally deal with the statistical processing of hydrological material, predominantly arranged in the form of time series. In addition, I focus on climatological data. Being originally a geographer, space also plays a very important role in my scientific life. I thus synthesize the potential of data science techniques and geographical information systems. Both approaches are well combined in the R programming language, which I use for my work in a routine manner. My research focuses on diverse aspects of modelling the hydrological cycle and its components. I am particularly interested in the quantitative aspect and spatial redistribution of water resources under the conditions of a changing climate, virtually all over the world. As a statistician, I sometimes visit fields of other disciplines, not necessarily being natural sciences.

Lectures and seminars

Lectures and seminars of the bachelor programmes

• Geoinformatics in Physical Geography (participation in teaching)
• Hydroinformatics (participation in teaching)

Lectures and seminars of the master programmes

• R and Python in Geosciences (participation in teaching)
• Geographical Project (participation in teaching)

Student's theses

currently listed theses topics in the SIS (from bachelor to Ph.D. theses)

Publications

For the list of published works, see ResearchGate and/or Google Scholar.

Programming

selected R scripts and future R packages accessible at GitHub (publication of HTML teaching material prepared in Quarto also planned)