Collecting beetles since 1974, I expanded my interests from Central Europe to all zoogeographic regions and from systematics to phylogenomics. I moved from the applied pest management research to the academic sphere in 1996, later spent two years at Osaka Prefecture University in Sakai and established a molecular laboratory working on the Elateriformia phylogenetics in Olomouc in 2005. I worked at a part time position in the Natural History Museum in London 2010-2012. Currently, Professor of Entomology at Palacky University in Olomouc, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Molecular Evolution. I have spent a lot of time in the field, mostly in South East Asia.