Dr. Lenka Martinec Novakova
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Senior Lecturer
- Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Letenská 5, Prague 1
Martinec Nováková is an instructor and researcher in the behavioral sciences with a primary research focus on the chemical senses, particularly olfaction. She completed a Masters in Biological Anthropology in 2008, followed by a Ph.D. in General Anthropology in 2013. Her work examines how the sense of smell develops and functions across the human lifespan, its role in cognition, emotion, and social behavior, and its broader implications for health and well-being.
She has led multiple grant-funded projects on olfactory perception, developmental psychology, and affective processes. Her research has been published in leading international journals and has contributed to advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of sensory processes within psychology and behavioral sciences. She is an active member of several international professional societies dedicated to chemosensory science and human ethology, including the European Chemoreception Research Organization.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, reading popular cosmology books, practicing aromachology, and pole dancing.