Milan Chytrý#
| Membership Number: | 7298 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytry |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8122-3075 |
| X: | @milanchytry @milanchytry.bsky.social |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/milan.chytry.3 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present President of the Czech Botanical Society
- 2017 - 2024 Director of the Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2012 - present Secretary of the Working Group European Vegetation Survey of the International Association for Vegetation Science
- 2010 - 2025 Chief Editor of the "Journal of Vegetation Science" and "Applied Vegetation Science"
- 2009 - present Professor at the Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2006 - present Head of the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2000 - 2005 Head of the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1993 - 2009 Researcher, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Fields of Scholarship
- Biodiversity
- Plant community ecology
- Botany
- Macroecology
- Vegetation science
- Biogeography
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic for Outstanding Educational Activities
- 2025 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2025 Honorary Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science
- 2024 Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Botanical Society
- 2021 Elected Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
- 2021 MUNI Scientist Award
- 2017 Distinguished Member of the Slovak Botanical Society
- 2016 Honorary Member of the Polish Botanical Society
- 2012 Award of the President of the Czech Science Foundation
