Dr. Michal Šíma is an Associate Scientist at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences. He received a B.Sc. in Parasitology, an M.Sc. in Parasitology, and a Ph.D. in Parasitology from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, in 2009, 2011, and 2016, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University. He focuses on studying the impact of air pollution and manufactured nanoparticles on human health, mainly at the transcriptomic level.