PhDr. Robert Šimůnek, Ph.D., DSc.

Research areas

medieval history with a focus on noble self-reflection and representation, urban history, social history, historical geography, specialising on the development of administrative-territorial and settlement structures, historical topography, landscape history and historical iconography 

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1989–1994: Master in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: K vnitřní struktuře rožmberského dominia za vladařství Oldřicha II. (se zaměřením na dějiny jihočeského dominia v době pohusitské) / The Structure of the Rosenberg Dominion during the Reign of Ulrich II. (Focusing on the History of the South Bohemian Dominion in the post-Hussite Period)

1997–2003: Ph.D. in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Správní systém šlechtického dominia v pozdně středověkých Čechách. Rožmberská doména 1418–1472 / Administrative System of Aristocratic Dominion in Late Medieval Bohemia. Rosenberg Domain 1418–1472

2003: Rigorosum proceedings (PhDr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University 

2015: Research Professor (DSc.), Czech Academy of Sciences, thesis title: Reprezentace české středověké šlechty / Representation of the Czech Medieval Nobility

Foreign internships and scholarships

4–8/2000: University of Konstanz, doctoral scholarship Herbert Quandt Stiftung Altana AG

Domestic grants and major projects

1999–2002: Fontes Cartographici Bohemiae, Moraviae atque Silesiae, Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Grants of Distinctly Investigative Character Focused on the Sphere of Research Pursued at Present, Particularly in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, reg. n. A9015909, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2000–2002: Historický atlas měst České republiky / Historical Town‘s Atlas of the Czech Republic, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 404/00/1706, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2003–2005: Historický atlas měst České republiky II. / Historical Town‘s Atlas of the Czech Republic II., Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 404/03/1081, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2003–2005: Česká šlechta v pozdním středověku: Spektrum a formy šlechtické sebereflexe a reprezentace / Czech Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: Forms and Features of Self-reflection and Representation, Czech Science Foundation, Junior Research Grant Projects, reg. n. B8015304, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator 

2006–2008: Historický atlas měst České republiky / Historical Town‘s Atlas of the Czech Republic, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 404/06/1260, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2009–2012: Historický atlas měst České republiky / Historical Town‘s Atlas of the Czech Republic, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 404/09/0897, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2011–2015: Kartografické zdroje jako kulturní dědictví. Výzkum nových metodik a technologií digitalizace, zpřístupnění a využití starých map, plánů, atlasů a glóbů / Cartographic Sources as a Cultural Heritage. Research of the New Methods and Technologies of Digitalisation to Enable Access and Use of the Old Maps, Plans, Atlases and Globes, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DF11P01OVV021, beneficiary: Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, cobeneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2012–2015: Vývoj digitálních technologií ke zpřístupnění prosopografických a topografických kartoték badatelů minulosti se zvláštním zřetelem k fondu Augusta Sedláčka / Development of Digital Technologies Making Prosopographic and Topographic Files of Past Researchers Accessible to Public, with Special Regard to the August Sedláček Collection, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DF12P01OVV019, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2012–2018: Výzkumné centrum historické geografie / Historical Geography Research Centre, Czech Science Foundation, Projects to Support Excellence in Basic Research, reg. n. P410/12/G113, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, cobeneficiary: Faculty of Science, Charles University, team member

2013–2015: Historický atlas měst České republiky / Historical Town‘s Atlas of the Czech Republic, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 13-11425S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

2015–2017: Dítě ve středověku a raném novověku v českých zemích / Child in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 15-02196S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member in 2017

2018–2022: Věnná města českých královen (Živá součást historického vědomí a její podpora nástroji historické geografie, virtuální reality a kyberprostoru) / Dowry Towns of the Queens of Bohemia (A Living Part of Historical Consciousness and Its Support of the Instruments of Historical Geography, Virtual Reality and Cyberspace), Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DG18P02OVV015, consortium of beneficiaries, beneficiary-coordinator: Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, beneficiary: Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, team member 

2023–2027: Historická lázeňská sídla jako kulturní, urbanistický a krajinotvorný fenomén / Historic Spa Settlements as a Cultural, Urban and Landscape-forming Phenomenon, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DH23P03OVV075, consortium of beneficiaries, beneficiary-coordinator: Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, cobeneficiary: University of Hradec Králové, Institute of History of the CAS, team leader for the Institute of History of the CAS

2023–2027: Hranice jako kulturněhistorický fenomén. Specifikace, analýza, komparace a interpretace/ Borders as a Cultural-historical Phenomenon. Specification, Analysis, Comparison and Interpretation, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DH23P03OVV030, consortium of beneficiaries, beneficiary-coordinator: Institute of History of the CAS, cobeneficiary: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, team member

2023–2027: Mapa českých hradů. Hrady jako kulturní fenomén, předmět výzkumu a památky minulosti / Map of Czech Castles. Castles as Cultural Phenomenon, Subject of Research and Remains of the Past, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DH23P03OVV040, consortium of beneficiaries, beneficiary-coordinator: University of West Bohemia, cobeneficiary: National Heritage Institute, Institute of History of the CAS, Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, team member

Teaching activities

Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2010)

Membership of editorial boards

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Historical Geography [Historická geografie]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Studia Geohistorica
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Acta Onomastica
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Bohemiae Occidentalis Historica
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Hussite Tábor [Husitský Tábor] 
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Studies and Reports. Historical Review of Prague Surroundings [Studie a zprávy. Historický sborník pražského okolí]

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT) (since 2012)
Member of the Scientific Countil of the Centre for Medieval Studies (since 2019) 
Member of the Commission on Geographical Names of the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre [Názvoslovná komise při Českém úřadu zeměměřickém a katastrálním] (since 2006)
Member of the Committee for Historical Geography at the Institute of History of the CAS [Komise pro historickou geografii při Historickém ústavu Akademie věd České republiky] (since 1997)