Invitation to a lecture from the "I Want to Know More" series: Zotero and AI as Tools for Scientific Research
The UCM Doctoral School invites you to a lecture by Mgr. Hana Auerová, PhD., titled “Zotero and AI as Tools for Scientific Research,” which will take place on November 6, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. via Microsoft Teams.
Do you spend hours searching for academic literature, organizing scholarly sources, and formatting citations? Modern digital tools can significantly simplify this work for you. This hands-on workshop will showcase the capabilities of the Zotero citation manager in combination with artificial intelligence tools that are transforming the way researchers search for, process, and analyze scientific literature.
We’ll demonstrate how to effectively organize academic publications, automate citation management, map citation networks, extract key information from scientific articles, and use AI when working with your own research library.
From this lecture, you’ll take away practical techniques, specific tools, and inspiration on how to integrate Zotero with artificial intelligence, streamline your work with scientific sources, and critically evaluate both the possibilities and limitations of using AI in scientific research.
Mgr. Hana Auerová, Ph.D., has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology at UJEP since 2015, where she teaches plant physiology, molecular biology, biology didactics, and plant biotechnology. She has also developed specialized courses, including the practice-oriented course “Explant Cultures.” Before joining UJEP, she worked as a research scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Her international experience includes research stays at Queen Mary, University of London, supported by the EMBO Short-Term Fellowship program, and at the University of Florida in Gainesville (USA), where she focused primarily on plant genetics and cytogenetics.
She is the author and co-author of 16 publications in journals ranked in the Q1 quartile, with an H-index of 16 and more than 700 citations. She has contributed to research projects under the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program and the Czech Science Foundation’s (TA ČR) ZÉTA project “Optimization of Energy Biomass Production,” as part of which she also participated in the development of a validated technology published in an impact-factored scientific journal.
She is a member of the academic board for the doctoral program “Landscape Reclamation and Ecosystem Services” at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, UJEP. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she is actively involved in popularizing plant biology and the use of artificial intelligence in education and professional practice."
Link to join:
