Jiří Holátko is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition at Mendel University in Brno. He obtained his master’s and a Ph.D. from Charles University in 2002 and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he was a researcher/scientist at the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Senior Researcher at the Agrovýzkum Rapotín. In 2018, he started working for Mendel University in Brno. His Research Keywords include biochar applications, Soil biology and soil microbiota.