She received her PhD in "Applied Ecology" from the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in 2011. She completed one semester of her studies focusing on global ecosystem processes in Sweden at Lund University. After working for Czech Ecological Institute for two years, where she was involved in the development of a habitat assessment method, she worked as a PhD student first at the Institute of System Biology and Ecology and later at the Global Change Research Institute of Czech Academy of Science. She has also conducted research at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, where she worked on ecosystem services valuation. She is currently a full-time researcher at the Global Change Research Institute of Czech Academy of Science, where she focuses on quantifying ecosystem functions, land degradation risk assessment, and ecological stability of landscapes in agricultural and urban settings.