Tomáš W. Pavlíček is a researcher who focuses on cultural history, religion, and the history of science. In his work, he conducts interviews with eyewitnesses and publishes academic articles and books. He also organises research seminars on oral history. Pavlíček is interested in tracing the everyday lives of men and especially women scientists associated with the Czechoslovak-Polish border region. He focuses on geologists, speleologists, mountaineers, but also physicists, mathematicians, and astronomers (e.g., Jiří Grygar, Dina Štěrbová, Kamila Bendová, and others). His latest book, Astronomers behind the Iron Curtain (2024) follows a generation of Czechoslovak astronomers as they explored the universe in the second half of the 20th century.

His projects, Hory, hranice a paměť (Mountains, Borders), and a Dina Štěrbová: Příběh horolezkyně (Memory and Dina Štěrbová: The Story of a Mountaineer), are part of Matchmaking.