Jan Havlíček

He works as an associate professor at the Department of Ethology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, and also as a senior researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. His expertise is in human ethology, especially in the evolutionary aspects of social perception. His research group studies how body odor, faces, and voices influence the formation of first impressions, especially in the context of partner selection and physical competition. He also studies the formation of partner relationships, the behavioral immune system, and the interaction of biological and cultural evolution.
He studied biology (B.Sc.), anthropology (Mgr.), and philosophy of the history of natural sciences (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, and in 2010 was appointed associate professor in anthropology. He also participated in several long-term field research (e.g. Cameroon, Namibia, Papua New Guinea). He was the principal investigator of 7 research grants from the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University Research Center. He has published more than 140 professional texts (H-index = 34), including articles in prestigious professional journals such as Psychological Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. He is also co-author of several books (Anthropology of the Senses, The Human Face, The Brain and Its Man, the Mind and Its Disease, On the Origin of Culture).