Marek Blatný

In 1988 he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of UJEP in Brno, majoring in Russian language and literature - psychology, and in 1992 he completed his master's degree in psychology at Masaryk University in Brno. In 1993 he defended his dissertation (CSc.) And in 2013 his doctoral dissertation (DrSc.). In 1999 he received a habilitation in social psychology and in 2006 he was appointed professor of social psychology. Since 1988 he has been working at the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, vvi, in the years 2007 - 2017 he was its director. Since 1998 he has been lecturing on personality psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

It deals with personality psychology, human lifelong development and personal well-being. His research topics include risk and protective factors of development in adolescence, the conditions of adaptive psychological and social functioning of a person in adulthood and the quality of life of adolescents after the treatment of cancer. He studies these topics mainly on the basis of longitudinal studies. He is the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers and the author or editor of ten monographs. He completed internships for his projects at the Yale Child Study Center in the USA and at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

He has worked as a member of a number of international scientific committees (Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation, Board of Scientific Affairs of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations, Executive Committee of the European Association of Personality Psychology ex officio - Chair of the 15th European Conference on Personality, 2010), university scientific councils (FF UK, FF MU) and national scientific councils and agencies (vice-chairman of the evaluation panel P407 - Psychology, pedagogy of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2009 - 2010, member of the Expert Commission for Social Sciences and Humanities RVVI).