Eva Zažímalová

In 1979 she graduated from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague, majoring in chemistry with a specialization in biochemistry. In 1983, she obtained the scientific degree of CSc at the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. in the field of biology (plant physiology). Since 1983 she has been working at the Institute of Experimental Botany (formerly the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, now the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) as a researcher. Here she headed the Laboratory of Hormonal Regulation in Plants in 2004–2016, and in 2007–2012 she was the director of this institute.

In 2004 she was appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Science of Charles University and in 2013 at the proposal of Charles University a professor of plant anatomy and physiology. She has led and partly still leads master's and doctoral students and has lectured and partly still lectures advanced semester courses in master's and doctoral study programs at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague and the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. She is a member of the branch councils of the doctoral study programs Anatomy and Physiology of Plants and Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science of Charles University and a member of the branch council of the study program Anatomy and Physiology of Plants at the Botany study program at the Faculty of Agriculture of Mendel University in Brno. She is also a member of the Scientific Board of Charles University in Prague, Palacky University in Olomouc, The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Masaryk University in Brno, and Comenius University in Bratislava, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Chemical Technology and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno. She is a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Eva Zažímalová researches the phytohormone auxin - its metabolism and molecular mechanisms of its action and transport in plant cells. She has been the coordinator and solver of many domestic and foreign projects, and has been heavily involved in the organization of several major international scientific symposia. She is the author or co-author of original scientific papers published in renowned international professional journals, chapters in professional monographs and the editor of professional monographs. Her works have been cited more than 5,200 times without self-citations.