Julius Lukeš

Julius Lukeš studied parasitology at Charles University in Prague, where he graduated in 1986. CSc. received in 1991 at the Institute of Parasitology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded the title of professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia in Č. Budějovice, where he was the head of the Department of Molecular Biology from 2005 to 2012. Since 1987 he has been working at the Institute of Parasitology of the Biological Center of the ASCR, where he founded the research of molecular parasitology. Since 2012, he has been the director of this institute. From 1993 to 1994, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam, and from 1997 to 1999 he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Riverside, and later in Los Angeles. From 2006 to 2008 he was President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, later from 2007 to 2009 Vice-Chairman of the International Society of Protistologists. From 2009 to 2017, he served as a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Toronto. He is a member of the Scholarly Society, Fellow American Academy of Microbiology (since 2014) and European Academy of Microbiology (since 2015), and in 2018 he was elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science.

He is the author or co-author of more than 320 scientific articles, which have so far been cited almost 10,400 times with an H index of 51. He is currently studying the molecular and cell biology of unicellular trypanosomes and diplons.