School of Media & IT Faculty
In the School of Media & IT, students learn from creative media, IT, networking and multimedia specialists who offer real technical, industrial, creative and academic expertise. In turn, our faculty members work with students to produce a lively learning experience.
Our specialised team of top professionals and academics put students at the centre of the learning experience, while they guide, inspire, and facilitate project work, allowing students to gain valuable experience for themselves.
Our professional teaching team includes renowned specialists and advanced practitioners from a wide variety of fields: programming, databases, 3D animation, video production, web design, interactive systems, artificial intelligence and more. Many members of the faculty hold advanced degrees, work in media and IT, and remain active researchers, theorists, and internationally recognised practitioners. In addition, workshop, seminar and project-based activities led by some of the most well-known figures in both media and computing provide students with valuable knowledge and experience.
Meet our academic leadership team:
Veronika is Head of the School of Media & IT, with research and pedagogical interests in mathematics and its application in both IT and business. She studied Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and is currently completing her Ph.D. at the Department of Logic at the Faculty of Arts, both at Charles University.
Beyond her previous teaching experience at the Czech Technical University and Charles University she has also been involved in numerous distinguished research projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and the Czech Science Foundation. In 2009, she became a principal lecturer in the School of Media & IT, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the Prague College “ Excellence in Teaching ” award.
Doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Radek Honzík, Ph.D.
Radek is Programme Leader for MSc Computing. He holds Master’s degrees in Mathematics and English Language, and Logic and Computational Linguistics, as well as a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, where he also successfully defended his habilitation work (Doc.) in 2019.
For three years he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic in Vienna. His research has been published in distinguished international journals including Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, and the Israel Journal of Mathematics. He is co-author of the monograph The Hyperuniverse Project and Maximality (Springer 2018).
Maša is the co-writer of the BA (Hons) Creative Media Production programme. She is a documentary and film maker, who earned her Ph.D. from Masaryk University’s Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture.
As well as this, she is the curator of a number of film festivals, and regularly takes part in projects supporting women in the creative arts. She acts as Czech ambassador to the Women’s Audiovisual Network, and collaborates with the One World international human rights documentary film festival. Her films have been shown at prestigious international film festivals including the Berlinale, Frameline in San Francisco, and the Women’s International Film Festival in Paris.
David Petryca is responsible for the BSc (Hons) Computing Blended Learning programme and has been teaching web design and development classes at Prague College since 2004. A qualified Graphic Designer with over fifteen years of experience in the advertising and media industry in Australia, he also has an MA in Future Design.
David’s interest lies in the design and coding of full stack web application using tools like Vue and Express.js. David is also interested in exploring future directions and possibilities of user interface design.
Maia Horniak, BFA, BA (Hons), MA
Maia is in charge of the BA (Hons) Creative Media Production programme. As a documentary-maker, director and camerawoman, she has worked for Universal Studios, Miramax and MTV. She graduated with an MA from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and also studied at FAMU in Prague, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen.
Her short films have been screened at festivals in Sydney, Palm Springs, Milan, Brooklyn, Brussels, Edmonton and Cannes. Maia won the Outstanding Film Maker award at HATCHFEST USA, and MTV’s One80 project for her film The Sellers.
