Barbara Pertold-Gebicka is an assistant professor at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She received her PhD at CERGE-EI in the Czech Republic, spent two years as a post-doc at Aarhus University in Denmark, and two semesters as a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.

Her research interest evolves around labor economics, family economics, economics of education, and other fields of applied microeconometrics.