Pavel Plevka studied molecular biology and virology at the Faculty of Science of Charles University (2002) and defended his Ph.D. in structural biology in 2009 at Uppsala University in Sweden. For the next four years, he worked as a post-doc with Michael Rossmann at Purdue University, USA. Since 2013, he has led the structural virology research group at CEITEC at Masaryk University in Brno. He received ERC-starting and -consolidator and EMBO-installation grants. He is a recipient of the Neuron Prize for Young Scientists, and in 2020 he won the Werner von Siemens Prize.