Jiří Žák
Contact
Address: Albertov 6, Prague, 12843, office P16B
Email: jirizak@natur.cuni.cz | jiri.zak@natur.cuni.cz
Phone: +420221951475
Research websites: Continental Tectonics Group | ResearchGate
Professional Career
2000 Graduated from Charles University in Petrology and Structural Geology
2004 Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, Charles University
2010/2015 Associate Professor
Since 2015 Full Professor
2016/2020 Head of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Charles University
Since 2020 Vice Dean for Geology, Faculty of Science, Charles University
Research Interests
Tectonics | Detrital zircon geochronology | Magmatic processes | Rock magnetism |Precambrian Earth
Publications
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Recent Sponsored Projects
Detrital zircon geochronology as a tool for interpreting terrane provenance, 2023-2025, Czech Science Foundation, project No. 23-06708S, CZK 7.26 Mill.
Late Archean granites: markers of modern-style plate tectonics? 2019-2022, Czech Science Foundation, project No. 19-08066S, CZK 9.27 Mill.
Sedimentary record and mechanics of collapse of orogenic belts, 2016-2018, Czech Science Foundation, project No. 16-11500S, CZK 6.31 Mill.
Supervising Ph.D. theses
Jonathan Jonah, Thermal and mechanical interactions of dikes and hydrothermal fluids during collisional orogeny, in progress
Reza Syahputra, Mechanisms and time scales of formation of ribbon continents, 2023
Filip Tomek, Magnetic fabric, magma flow and tectonic deformation in volcano-plutonic systems, 2015
Jaroslava Hajná, Tectonic evolution of the central part of the Teplá-Barrandian unit, 2012
Teaching
MG421P00 Physical Geology I | MG421P47 Introduction to Physical Geology | MG420P05 Dynamic Earth: outstanding issues of modern geology | MG420P10 Plutons, volcanoes, and orogeny through time | MG420T06 Field course of Geology | MG421T04 Geologic field trips
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