Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology


Milan CHROUST, Ph.D.





CURRICULUM VITAE



Personal data
Milan Chroust
Born in 1990, Czech Republic


Education:
  • 2006 – 2010: Gymnasium Prof. Jana Patočky, Prague
  • 2010 – 2013: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science – Practical Geobiology, Bachelor´s study
  • 2013 – 2016: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science – Geobiology, Master´s study
  • 2016 – 2022: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science – Palaeontology, PhD´s study


Employment
  • 2012 – 2014: Lecturer of the geological educational programmes „Držíme krok”, National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2014 – 2017: Lecturer of outdoor ecological and environmental educational programmes, Ekocentrum Koniklec, o.p.s., Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2016 – Water screening summer job, National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2017 – Leader of a geological excursion for high schools in Prokop Valley, Přírodovědci.cz, Czech Republic
  • 2017 – 2020: Curator at the collections, Czech Geological Survey
  • 2017 – present: External teacher of vertebrate paleontology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2020 – 2023: Ph.D. candidate (graduate student) at Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Paleobiology and Paleoecology, Czech Republic
  • 2020 – 2023: Teacher of biology and geography at Da Vinci Grammar School, Primary School and Kindergarten, Czech Republic
  • 2023 – Present: Postdoc at the Institute of Paleobiology PAS in Warsaw, Poland

Excavation fieldwork
  • 2015 – Hammerschmiede, Germany – Late Miocene
  • 2019 – Els Casots, Spain – Early Miocene

Internships
  • 2015 – Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany; Erasmus internship, summer semester
  • 2018 – The Palaeontological Collection of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale), Germany; Herpetological workshop, one week
  • 2019 – University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Consultations with W. Joyce focus on fossil turtles, one week
  • 2021 – Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona, Spain; Consultations with À. H. Luján focus on fossil turtles, two weeks


Publications and abstracts




Chroust M., Mazuch M., Ivanov M., Alba D. M., Luján À. H. (2023). Redescription of the soft-shell turtle Rafetus bohemicus (Testudines, Trionychidae) from the Early Miocene of Czechia. PeerJ 11:e15658

Chroust, M., Mazuch, M., Ivanov, M., Ekrt, B., Luján, À. H. (2021). First remains of Diplocynodon cf. ratelii from the early Miocene sites of Ahníkov (Most Basin, Czech Republic). Bulletin of Geosciences 96 (2): 123-138, DOI 10.3140/bull.geosci.1803.

Chroust, M., Mazuch, M., Ivanov, M., Luján, À. H. (2020): In Europe alone: A revision of the soft-shell turtle Rafetus bohemicus (Liebus 1930) from Břešťany Clay (Lower Miocene, Czech Republic). ProgPal 2020 – virtual paleontological meeting. 11th – 13th June, Leeds, UK.

Chroust, M., Mazuch, M., Luján, À. H. (2019): New crocodilian material from the Eocene-Oligocene transition of the NW Bohemia (Czech Republic): an updated fossil record in Central Europe during the Grande Coupure. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 293 (1): 73-82, DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2019/0832.

Luján, À. H, Chroust, M., Čerňanský, A., Fortuny, J., Mazuch, M., Ivanov, M. (2019): First record of Diplocynodon ratelii Pomel, 1847 from the early Miocene site of Tušimice (Most Basin, Northwest Bohemia, Czech Republic). Comptes Rendul Palevol 18 (7): 1-13, DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2019.04.002.

Chroust, M., Ivanov, M., Čerňanský, A., Fortuny, J., Mazuch, M., Luján, A. H. (2019): New Diplocynodon remains from the Lower Miocene site of Ahníkov/Merkur mine (North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic). SEH: 20th European Congress of Herpetology. 2nd – 6th September. Milan, Italy

Chroust, M., Čerňanský, A., Ivanov, M., Luján, A. H. (2018): Reappraisal of the distribution and stratigrafic record of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon ratelii pomel, 1847 in Europe. EAVP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of European Vertebrate Palaeontologists. 26th June -1st July. Lisbon, Portugal

Chroust, M. (2018): Nález prvního fosilního krokodýla na Moravě. SGK: Studentská geologická konference. 1. – 2. Června. Brno. ISBN: 978-80-21-8960-0

Chroust, M., Mazuch, M. (2018): Fossil crocodiles from the Czech Republic. CSP: 19th Czech-Slovak-Polish Palaeontological Conference & MIKRO 2018 workshop. 18th –19th October. Prague. Czech Republic. Folia. Special Volume: 16. ISSN: 1805-2371.

Nahodilová, R., Štědrá, V., Chroust, M., Petyniak, O., Krejčíková, E. (2018): Účelová geologická mapa kandidátské lokality Temelín 1: 50 000. neuveden. 3 s. – Česká republika - Správa úložišť radioaktivních odpadů. Praha

Luján, À. H., Chroust, M., Mazuch, M., Fortuny, J., Ivanov, M. (2017): First record of Diplocynodon ratelii (Crocodylia: Diplocynodontidae) in the Czech Republic. YNHM: Young Natural History Scientists Meeting. 7th -11th February. Paris, France

Luján, À. H., Chroust, M., Mazuch, M., Fortuny, J., Ivanov, M. (2017): Occurrence of Diplocynodon ratelii (Crocodylia) in the Czech Republic. EAVP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of European Vertebrate Palaeontologists 1st – 3rd August. Munich, Germany. Zitteliana. 91:54. ISSN 0373-9627





Contact



Milan Chroust

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3301-5578
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milan-Chroust

Languages: Czech (native), English (B2), German (B1), Spanish (A1)
Drive licence: B


Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND

e-mail: chroust@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (+48 22) 6978-899; room 153