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)

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)