Petr Kukučka is a researcher at RECETOX, Masaryk University, and majored in the field of environmental chemistry. His major fields of expertise are various chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques and their application (development, validation and implementation) to environmental monitoring and biomonitoring of organic contaminants. He specializes in optimizing methods to increase sample throughput and allow possible automation. He also worked on the development of analytical methods at Osnabrück University (Germany) and Örebro University (Sweden). He is a member of the Trace Laboratories core facility at RECETOX responsible for the GC-MS group.