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I am an assistant professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2025, I am a member of the research group G²OAT, a part of the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Information Technology. I am also affiliated with Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, where I was between 2020 and 2024 a member of the research group TIGR.

Before joining Czech TU, I was as a postdoc at Masaryk University, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions GF at Emory and Universität Hamburg, a CRM-ISM fellow at McGill, and a postdoc at ETH. I did my joint PhD (cotutelle) in maths at Warwick and CS at Université Paris Diderot under the supervision of Dan Kráľ and Jean Sébastien Sereni.

Research awards and funding

Neuron Prize for young mathematicians (2024)

Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), JuniorStar grant – Extremal & Probabilistic Combinatorics (January 2023 - December 2027)

Horizon 2020, MSCA Global Fellowship – QuasiHyp (October 2018 - September 2021, suspended for medical reasons in April 2019)

CRM-ISM fellowship (September 2016 - August 2018)

Ten selected research publications

D. Kráľ, J. Volec, F. Wei: Common graphs with arbitrary chromatic number, accepted to Compositio Mathematica.

A. Grzesik, J. Volec: Degree conditions forcing directed cycles, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2023 (2023), 9711–9753.

V. Falgas-Ravry, O. Pikhurko, E. Vaughan, J. Volec: The codegree threshold of K4-, J. Lond. Math. Soc. 107 (2023), 1660-1691.

D. Kráľ, J. A. Noel, S. Norin, J. Volec, F. Wei: Non-bipartite k-common graphs, Combinatorica 42 (2022), 87-114.

R. Glebov, D. Kráľ, J. Volec: Compactness and finite forcibility of graphons, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 21 (2019), 3199-3223.

A. Grzesik, P. Hu, J. Volec: Minimum number of edges that occur in odd cycles, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 137 (2019), 65-103.

B. Sudakov, J. Volec: Properly colored and rainbow copies of graphs with few cherries, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 122 (2017), 391-416.

J. Balogh, P. Hu, B. Lidický, F. Pfender, J. Volec, M. Young: Rainbow triangles in three-colored graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 126 (2017), 83-113.

R. Glebov, D. Kráľ, J. Volec: A problem of Erdos and Sos on 3-graphs, Israel J. Math. 211 (2016), 349-366.

Z. Dvořák, J.-S. Sereni, J. Volec: Subcubic triangle-free graphs have fractional chromatic number at most 14/5, J. Lond. Math. Soc. 89 (2014), 641-662.

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