Linda Nedbalová
Linda Nedbalová is a Czech Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on snow algae. Early life and education Nedbalová was born in 1976 in Prague (Czech Republic). She received her MSc. degree in biology in 2000 at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. She then received a Ph.D. at the same faculty in 2007. The title of her thesis was 'Phytoplankton in acidified lakes: structure, function and response to ecosystem recovery'. Career and impact Nedbalová began her working career as a researcher both at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Třeboň and at the Department of Ecology, Charles University in Prague, where she is now assistant professor. Nedbalová has been involved in polar research since 2008, when she was invited to participate on the expedition to the newly opened Johann Gregor Mendel Czech Antarctic Station on James Ross Island (NE Antarctic Peninsula). In 2011, she was awarded a prestigious award of the Czech Academy of Science for Young scientists for her work on snow algae. During two consecutive expeditions to Antarctica, she performed (together with Josef Elster) a pioneering limnological survey of the Ulu Peninsula and Clearwater Mesa. Apart from the first