Tomáš Svoboda

Tomáš Svoboda is an associate professor and director of the Institute of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. After graduating in English and German translation from the institute, Tomáš earned his PhD. at the same institute. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as an in-house 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 (EMT) network 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 tudies theory. Tomáš has published over 40 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).