Prof. RNDr. Jana Jurečková, DrSc.

J. Jurečková graduated in probability and mathematical statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in 1962; she earned her PhD at the Institute of Mathematcs of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1967 under the supervision of Jaroslav Hájek. She then taught at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in various positions, latest as professor. In 1984 she defended her DrSc thesis at Charles University. Since 2020 she is emeritus professor at Charles University and since 2017 she is senior research fellow at ÚTIA.

She served as a supervisor to 14 defended PhD theses. She temporarily worked as Visiting Professor at Masaryk University Brno, HU Berlin, UNC Chapel Hill (USA), Université de Neuchatel (Switzerland), Université Bordeaux (France). She was on the editorial board of various journals (Annals of Statistics, JASA, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Sankhya, Statistics and Probability Letters). She is an elected member of ISI since 1990. In 2003 she was elected a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. In the years 2013-15 she was a member of the World Council of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Since 2004 she is a member of the Committee of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for excellent results in science and innovation. Since 2019 she is Vice-Chairman for the committee granting the title DrSc in economics. She is the author of 4 monographs, of two of which was published a second edition. Her publication list contains over 160 articles in international journals.