Get to know our team

Ing. Radek Černý, PhD.

Radek gained invaluable experience with fruit growing and breeding abroad. While working in Germany, he accidentally visited our station in 2007. After joining our team two years later, he learned a lot from our founder Jaroslav Tupý over time and in 2016 became the head. Besides leading our team, Radek is responsible for communication with our German-speaking license partners, managing breeding and research projects, applying newselections for plant variety rights, drafting license agreements, and he also takes part in promotional and commercialisation activities. He is a proud member of the expert committee Fachkommission Kernobst.

Ing. Miloslav Juříček, CSc.

Miloslav draws upon his long-term experience in bioinformatics and a broad array of molecular techniques. He therefore plays an invaluable role in our research and analyses that help us with breeding and evaluating our new apple selections.

Ing. Jan Zima

Jan has impressive knowledge of everything that revolves around apples and gardening. His decades-long experience is particularly helpful in growing and breeding.

Zdeněk Haleš, DiS.

Zdeněk carries out tasks related to growing, breeding and selection. He also has the responsibility for making sure that the seedlings in our modern greenhouse are well catered for.

Mgr. Veronika Janečková

Now on maternity leave, Veronika was mainly responsible for activities related to plant variety rights, variety commercialisation, promotion and other administrative tasks. She also helped to establish and was engaged in Jaroslav Tupý Endowment Fund.