Dalibor Kučera is an academic, educator, and researcher in the fields of general, social, and educational psychology. His long-term research focuses on methods based on communication analysis and on human–technology interaction, particularly the psychology of language use, virtual reality, and human–AI interaction.

He received his Ph.D. in General Psychology and his PhDr. in Psychology from the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. In 2022, he completed his habilitation in Psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and was appointed Associate Professor of Psychology.

Since 2013, he has worked at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. From 2021 to 2026, he served as Head of the Department of Psychology, and since 2026 he has been Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies. He is also the guarantor of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Psychology. Since 2020, he has also collaborated with the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

Since 2012, a central theme of his research has been the psychology of language use and the development of methods for the psychological analysis of natural language. From 2016 to 2018, he was the principal investigator of the Czech Science Foundation project CPACT, Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text (16-19087S), which contributed to the development and validation of methods for the psychological analysis of Czech-language texts. In 2020, he was awarded a senior Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship for the project Personality Processes and Oral Communication (2020-28-11), which he conducted at the University of Arizona in 2021. The project initiated a long-term research collaboration and contributed to identifying methodological challenges in psychological language analysis across languages and cultures, later addressed in the study Beyond English: Considering Language and Culture in Psychological Text Analysis.

Since 2022, his research has increasingly focused on the use of virtual reality in psychology, primarily within the VR TEAM platform. In 2025, he completed the project Development of Social and Communication Skills in Adaptive VR Simulations (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, SIGMA, PoC TQ11000016), which connects psychological research with the development of adaptive virtual reality environments for training social and communication skills.

Another major area of his current research is human–AI interaction. In 2024, he received support from the ELISE Mobility Program for Experienced Researchers (Horizon 2020, 951847) for research in human-centric machine learning and interaction and became an Associate Scientist at ELLIS Alicante. His current research examines, among other topics, AI-based personality inference and the effects of chatbot communication style on human interaction. This line of research includes the studies Can ChatGPT Read Who You Are? (2024) and Mind the Style: Impact of Communication Style on Human-Chatbot Interaction (2026), published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans.

Alongside his research and teaching, he has held a number of academic and professional positions. He is a member of the Internal Evaluation Board of the University of South Bohemia (2025–2030) and has served as an evaluator for the national accreditation body since 2023. He served two consecutive terms as an elected member of the Board of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society (2018–2026) and was President of the Association of Psychology Departments in the Czech Republic from 2023 to 2024. From 2018 to 2026, he was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, and from 2022 to 2023 a member of the Academic Senate of the University of South Bohemia. His other professional activities include editorial work for the journal Pedagogika and membership in the Czech Association for Educational Research.

Dalibor Kučera is the author and co-author of numerous academic publications. His major monographs include Personality Markers in Text, which focuses on the use of quantitative psychological-linguistic analysis of written language in personality research; Modern Psychology: Main Fields and Topics of Contemporary Psychological Science; and the collective monograph CPACT Research: Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text. His work combines fundamental psychological research with methodological development and applied research at the intersection of psychology, language, virtual environments, and artificial intelligence.