Dr Kamil Vlcek

Kamil Vlcek is a neuroscientist at the Institute of Physiology at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, focusing on the brain basis of spatial navigation in humans. Through scholarships, he worked at New York University, Collège de France and University College London. He teaches cognitive psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and also supervises students at the Faculty of Science and Medical Faculty. He was a secretary of Czech and Slovak ethological society. In autumn 2019, he initiated an open letter from Czech academics to the government calling on them to be more actively focused on climate change. He is an active member of the SustainableAcademy.cz initiative.