Tomáš Svoboda is an associate professor and the Director of the Institute of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague, Czechia. After graduating in English and German translation from the Institute of Translation Studies, Tomáš earned his PhD at the same institute. From 2004 to 2007, he worked as an inhouse translator and training coordinator for the Czech Language Department of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation in Luxembourg, and subsequently for four years as a contractor for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since 2008, Tomáš has worked at the Institute of Translation Studies in various roles. He is a board member of the European Master’s in Translation network (EMT) and a member of the Executive Board of the Czech Union of Translators and Interpreters. His research interests involve tools and technologies in translation, institutional translation studies, the future of the translation profession, translator training, translation quality, and translation studies theory. Tomáš has published over 50 papers and book chapters and has been the main editor of the books on institutional translation Quality Aspects in Institutional Translation (with Ł. Biel and K. Łoboda, Language Science Press, 2017) and Institutional Translator Training (with Ł. Biel and V. Sosoni, Routledge, 2022).
