Since 2011, she has filmed countless scientific reports, commercials, spots, and popular science documentaries for the Czech Academy of Sciences. She received a degree in documentary filmmaking at the studio of Dušan Hanák and Vlado Balco at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and in fiction filmmaking at the IFS Academy in Písek. Among her successes is a film about the expedition of Czech researchers on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard titled Movements (AFO 2016). The popular science film series Silent Threats, which she filmed next, was viewed by over one million people and was presented during the Czech Presidency of the OECD in Paris.

An environmental chemist, hydrochemist, and water technologist. Pivokonský is currently the director of the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the CAS. His research focuses on water pollution and water treatment. He has authored several scientific books and a number of publications that have appeared in international journals. An integral part of his work is also the popularisation of science, for which he received the Award of the President of the CAS in 2019. In addition to basic research, he is also engaged in the application of scientific knowledge into practice. He has designed and created a number of technologies that are used in water treatment plants, utility models, patents, and proven technologies. For his research in the field of water treatment, he received the GACR President’s Award from the Czech Science Foundation in 2021. A year later, he received the prestigious Academic Award (Praemium Academiae) from the Czech Academy of Sciences.

He holds a degree in production from the film school in Písek. For several years, he was involved in running a regional television broadcast whose productions won recognition at international TV festivals. Since 2008, he has been working at the Czech Academy of Sciences in the OAT Studio, which he put together and still heads. The studio is devoted to the popularisation of science and production of spots, reports, documentaries, and multimedia presentations, for which the studio has won awards at several television and popular science festivals at home and abroad.

A professional film editor and creative advisor with many years of experience. He participated in the workshops Script Consulting Incubator, LIM, and John Yorke Story for Script Development. Since 2017, he has also been working as a lecturer at FAMU (the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague).

He studied at the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU (the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague), where he currently teaches one of the courses. His distinctive feature documentary film Fighting the Brain (2009) received special mention in the Czech Joy (Best Czech Documentary Film) section at the Jihlava IDFF. Currently he works mainly as a cameraman.

He has been working in the OAT Studio at the Czech Academy of Sciences in editing, camerawork, animation, and graphics since 2009. He worked on the award-winning documentary Movements, the docu-series Silent Threats, countless reports, and is currently working on the YouTube programme Zvěd together with colleagues from the CAS.

Rataj is known to a wider audience mainly as a composer of film scores (Promlčeno, Jan Palach, Rodina je základ státu, České století, Bohéma, Sever, etc.). He mainly composes electronic and instrumental music and since 2008 has been performing as a sound performer in Europe and the USA. His compositions are regularly performed at festivals at home and abroad as well as part of concert series. He works with Czech and international orchestras and soloists. He moves across the spectrum of musical genres and performs on stage with soloists in classical, experimental, and jazz music. He teaches composition, music technology, and film music at the composition department of HAMU and NYU Prague. His creative and research interests include themes of sound and space, and he has developed projects working with a large number of speakers in both studio and public spaces.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín and the IFS Academy in Písek. He works as an animator, artist, and occasional director of animated shorts.