Martin Lhoták graduated at the Czech University of Life Sciences in the field of Informatics in 1996. He works at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 1997. For nearly 10 years, he was responsible for library automation as the head of the IT department. In 2003, he established the Library’s Digitization Center. From 2007 he was for two 5-year terms appointed as the director of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and currently he is in the position of the Library deputy director responsible for research, development and technologies. He is also the head of information technology and digitalization section.
At the research level, Martin Lhoták focuses on development of open source solutions supporting digitization, dissemination and archiving of digital documents – Kramerius, ProArc and ARCLib systems. He is also responsible for coordination of two national projects "The Czech Digital Library" and "The Central Portal of Czech Libraries". He has been involved in the open access movement and he initiated the Open Access Policy of the Czech Academy of Sciences adopted by the Academic Council and the start-up of the institutional repository of the Academy.
Martin Lhoták was coordinating accession process of the Czech Republic to DARIAH ERIC and he currently actively participates in digital humanities projects with concern mainly on the development of new tools and building of information infrastructures.