Terezie Páníková

During the first 4 years of her studies at UCT, Terezie focused only on her studies. She graduated with a red diploma. But what of it. Only a nice photo from the graduation. During her master's studies, she said to herself that university is not just about exams and began to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the school. She participated in the ATHENS program and went to Serbia for a 2-month IAESTE internship. Immediately afterwards, she went to Hamburg for 11 months, where she worked in the laboratory at EMBL in the group of Dr. Willmans on her diploma thesis. There she realized that science was great and wanted to go for a doctorate. After six months of searching, she found the laboratory of Dr. Jiráček at IOCB, where she successfully completed her doctorate after 4.5 years. 

During her doctorate, she realized that it was necessary to not only do science, but also to popularize it. That is why she has been involved in guiding high school students at the UCT club and in the laboratory at her workplace. She also began to actively participate in popularization events organized by IOCB. The pinnacle of pushing her personal boundaries was her participation in the FameLab 2022 competition. She did not lose her nervousness in front of the audience, but the audience probably did not notice it, since they awarded her the Audience Award. 

She currently works as a postdoc in Zuzana Kečkéšová's group at IOCB. In addition to popularizing science, Terezie found another passion in organizing events such as a lab retreat or a workshop on non-academic job opportunities. She is currently actively involved in organizing monthly career lectures for PostDocs. 

If you wanted to talk to her about something other than science, you would not go wrong with history, climbing and cute animal videos.