Vladimír Socha

RNDr. Vladimír Socha (born 1 January 1982 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech writer, publisher, public lecturer and science promoter from the city Hradec Králové (north-eastern Czech Republic). His Czech academic title is RNDr. – Rerum Naturalium Doctor – "The Doctor of Natural Sciences"). His main interest lies in dinosaur paleontology and the history of science in general. So far, he published about twenty books about dinosaurs and primeval life in Czech, nine smaller brochures (booklets) and hundreds of magazine articles about nature, history and prehistory. In 2009 he volunteered in the summer paleontological field dig in the Hell Creek formation in eastern Montana (for the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman). A year later, he published a book about the experience called Dinosauři od Pekelného potoka ("Dinosaurs from the Hell Creek"). He also provides interviews for the Czech Radio and Czech Television and sometimes organises paleoart exhibitions.

Published book titles (Magnificent World of Dinosaurs), Triton, 2009 (2nd edition 2012) (Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs in the Light of new Discoveries), Libri, 2010 (Dinosaurs from the Hell Creek), Motto, 2010 (In the Footsteps of Dinosaurs), Triton, 2011 (Strange Dragons, brochure), Triton, 2013 (Discoveries under the Layers of Time), Computer Press, 2014 (Prehistory of the Czech Lands, brochure), Triton, 2015 (Prehistoric Rulers of the Skies, brochure), Triton, 2015 (Unknown Dinosaurs), Mladá fronta, 2015 (The Last Days of Dinosaurs), Radioservis, 2016 (Dinosaur Record Holders, brochure), Triton, 2016 (Dinosaurs in the Czech Republic), Vyšehrad, 2017 (A Trip to the Universe), Triton, 2017 ("The Great Extinction at the end of the Cretaceous"), Pavel Mervart, 2017 (The Last Day of the Mesozoic), Vyšehrad, 2018 (New journey to prehistory), CPress, 2019 Tyrannosaurus rex (A legend named Tyrannosaurus rex), Pavel Mervart, 2019 (Dinosaurs) (small book/booklet), Bylo nebylo, 2019 (Monsters of the primeval seas, brochure), Triton, 2019 ("Prehistoric rulers of Europe"), Kazda, 2020 (Dinosaurs – Records and Curiosities), Kazda 2021 (Greatest Dinosaur Mysteries), Euromedia Group, 2022 (Dinosaurs), Czech News Center, 2022 (Giants of the Prehistory, brochure), Triton, 2023 (Dinosaur babies, brochure), Triton, 2024 (Field Guide to the World of Dinosaurs, audiobook), Supraphon, 2024 (The Return of Dinosaurs), Grada, 2025 (Fascinating Dinosaurs), illustrated by Jan Sovák, Dobrovský, 2025 (Once upon a time in the Mesozoic), Pikola, 2026

Vladimír Socha by the skeleton of theropod dinosaur Carnotaurus sastrei, Chlupáč Museum of Earth's History, Albertov, Prague (2015).