Silvie durpekova is a researcher at Centre of Polymer Science, Tomas Bata University (TBU) in Zlin, Czech Republic, and her main attention is focused on developing biopolymer hydrogel materials for technical applications. She received her PhD in 2016 at TBU. Since 2019 she is member of research group of Environmental technologies at Centre of Polymer Systems. She is author of 9 publications indexed in Web of Science, 6 utility models and active participation in projects financed by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.