Curriculum Vitae:
Tomas is an environmental economist working on both applied and conceptual challenges in integrating the value of nature into policy and decision-making. His research focuses on non-market valuation methods and natural capital accounting, with a particular emphasis on developing spatially explicit stated preference methods to inform biodiversity policy.
A central thread in Tomas’s work is the challenge of capturing robust, spatially explicit non-use values of biodiversity and nature-related interventions—particularly where public support is needed for large-scale or long-term environmental policies. Thematically, his work addresses the intersection of biodiversity and climate policies across both rural landscapes (e.g. agriculture, nature conservation) and urban settings (e.g. nature-based solutions, climate adaptation), at national and city scales. Tomas has also contributed to international initiatives such as the revision of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) and the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB).
At the Charles University Environment Centre (COŽP), Tomas leads the four-year research project Spatially Explicit & Plural Valuation for Just Biodiversity Policy (SPValues), funded through the PRIMUS scheme. Previously, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working on the EU-funded project Spatial Non-Market Valuation for Biodiversity Policy. He earned a PhD at the University of East Anglia while affiliated with the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE). Earlier in his career, Tomas worked as a policy analyst at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Brussels.
