Tomáš Zima

Tomáš Zima is a candidate in the 2023 Czech presidential election. According to a November 2022 poll, Zima was in 9th position in voter preferences.

Tomáš Zima owns two CZ pistols and supports the right to keep and bear arms, describing it as a "matter of principle" for him. Zima said that he trains in defensive gun use at a shooting range with professionals, mostly his friends who are armed forces personnel. During the 2023 presidential election campaign, he said that "any greater restrictions would be to the detriment of issues related to the protection of the freedom of individuals, but also of the state", stating that as president, he would veto restrictions on the legal possession of firearms by civilians.

Zima graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in 1990. He has been a professor of medical chemistry and biochemistry since 2001 and head of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine of the First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague. He is a specialist in clinical chemistry, and European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine (EuSpLM). He was the Dean of the First Faculty of Medicine from 2005 to 2012 and then became Rector of the university.

Tomáš Zima (born 2 July 1966) is a Czech physician, chemist, and a teaching professor in the fields of biochemistry, clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. He was the Rector of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic between 2014 - 2022 and is a candidate in the 2023 Czech presidential election.