PERSONAL DATA:

Name: Mgr. Václav Helebrant
Born: 1999

CONTACT:

Email: vhelebrant@seznam.cz
Office: Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science

ORCID: 0009-0004-1954-7556

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cF5ypU_TMBQC&hl=cs

SPECIALIZATION: 

• Predator recognition
• Nest defence

EDUCATION: 

• Grammar School, Praha 6, Nad Alejí 1952
• Bachelor studies – programme Biology; Charles University, Faculty of Science
• Master studies – programme Zoology; Charles University, Faculty of Science
• Doctoral studies (in progress) – programme Zoology, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science

THESES:

Helebrant, V (in progress)

The assessment of dangerousness of European owls by their potential prey and the function of eyespots in owls

Ph.D. thesis

Helebrant, V (2024)
The assessment of dangerousness of European owls by their potential prey
M.Sc. thesis

Helebrant, V (2022)

The occurrence and the function of eyespots in the vertebrate colouration

B.Sc. thesis

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

Helebrant V, Veselý P, Fišer O, Fuchs R (2025) The assessment of dangerousness of European owls by their potential prey and the function of eyespots in owls, PhD student conference, 27.-28.1.2025, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Vodňany, Czech Republic (talk)

Helebrant V, Veselý P, Fišer O, Motýlová K, Fuchs R (2024) How do small passerines assess the dangerousness of European owls – a feeder experiment, 10th European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition, 5.-7.11.2024, Paris, France (poster)

Helebrant V, Fišer O, Antonová K, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2024) How do small passerines assess the dangerousness of European owls – a feeder experiment, 4th EOU Fledglings Meeting, 22.-24.3.2024, Prague, Czech Republic (poster)

NATIONAL CONFERENCES (IN CZECH):

Helebrant V, Veselý P, Fišer O, Fuchs R (2025) Hodnocení nebezpečnosti evropských sov jejich potenciální kořistí: rozhoduje složení potravy predátora, nebo jeho velikost? Zoologické dny, 13.-14.2.2025, Brno, Czech Republic (talk)

Helebrant V, Veselý P, Fišer O, Fuchs R (2024) Hodnocení nebezpečnosti evropských sov jejich potenciální kořistí: rozhoduje složení potravy predátora, nebo jeho velikost? 51. konference České a Slovenské etologické společnosti, 22.-24.11.2024, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (talk)

Helebrant V, Veselý P, Fišer O, Antonová K, Fuchs R (2023) Project design: Reactions of passerines and other small birds to different species of owls, 50. konference České a Slovenské etologické společnosti, 2.-5.11.2023, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia (poster)

OTHER TRIVIA:

A member of Czech and Slovak ethological society (CSEtS)

A member of Czech Society for Ornithology (CSO)