Monday, February 6, 2012

Post-Doc Research Fellow at Charles University

Post-Doc Research Fund for Foreign Young Researchers* Wishing to Work at Charles University in Prague

A/ Basic Description and Goal

As a ‘research university’ CU has an interest in the development of research. It is therefore desirable that high-quality post-doctoral researchers from abroad should participate in work at top CU/faculty centres and collaborate here on the intensive development of scientific research and scholarship. The goal of this project is to attract promising post-docs who will research a chosen theme at the relevant centres of CU. The main initiator is always the relevant department/centre of the faculty/institute which has an interest in the research area/project concerned. The CU Research Board is involved in the management of the process. Fund at CU for Foreign ‘Post-Doc‘ Researchers started on August 1st 2011.


B/ Conditions for Realisation

a) The scientific-research centre/department of the faculty has the prerequisites (space, necessary technical resources etc.) to accept a foreign applicant in the category of research workers for work on the relevant research project.
b) The university has the financial resources (non-investment) to cover the essential expenses for conducting the research project and to cover the salary of the applicants.
c) The post-doc worker is accepted to work on the research project for a period of two years
d) Stays are planned in three areas (humanities, natural sciences and medical fields).

C/ Procedure

1. The research centre proposes a viable theme (annotation), falling within its research activities, to be tackled by the applicant's project. After being conveyed to the relevant department of the faculty, this theme is made public in the accessible media (pages of the faculty, CU, foreign portals). One component of this publicization is the proposal of the faculty submitted directly also at the foreign faculty with which the home centre has co-operative research ties.

2. After consultation with the research centre proposing the theme, the applicant draws up a detailed project and submits it to the faculty by a stated deadline. His/her application includes a CV and list of publications, a statement from his/her PhD supervisor and a letter of recommendation from the head of the department/institute where the applicant studied for his/her doctorate (‘Application for post-doc grant at Charles University in Prague‘ and ‘Letter of Reference‘).

3. The faculty passes the application with project details to the CU Rectorate by a stated deadline. Academic communication will proceed with the research centre proposing the theme.

4. The University Committee of five members is appointed by the Rector. This evaluates the project, makes a recommendation and determines the order on whether it should be granted funds from the ‘Post-DocResearch Fund‘ for the relevant year. The definitive allocation of funds is approved by the Rector.

5. The applicant is informed of the results of the procedure, including the possible date of commencement of the stay, and completes the necessary formalities (visa etc.).

6. After the first year of work on the project, the University Committee as determined above will – by means of an interview with the post-doc worker – evaluate the results achieved and will confirm the continuation of his/her stay for the following year. This interim checking process will include a written report from the head of the centre (mentor) on the course of progress of the project. The result of the interview is then handed on to the CU Rectorate's International Affairs Office.

7. Towards the end of the two-year period the realisation of the project is evaluated by the CU University Committee (presentation of final conclusions with submission of publications), and the committee produces a report on the realisation of the project. The CU Research Board is then informed of the result.


D/ Schedule

The applications will be considered twice in the academic year.
For the year 2012, there are two deadlines for the applications submissions at the Rectorate: 15th November 2011 and 20th March 2012.
The candidates must respect the deadlines given in the proposition of the research centre/institute.

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE CHARLES UNIVERSITY

From : 1st of July 2012   Until : 1st of July 2014

* Faculty of Social Sciences

Title: Social space: a transdisciplinary issue of knowledge in the areas studies
The project of research proposes to question the valuable assets of spatiality in social sciences theoretical inquiries. The project intends to propose a reflexion to the following question: To what extend the social space is (or isn’t) a transdisciplinary issue of knowledge in social sciences ?

Besides an historiographical and theoretical research, the project aims at proposing a teaching activity in the form of a monthly seminar where scholars (PhD student and researchers) of the faculty will be introduced with theories of place and space in the area studies and will discuss the potential assets of these concepts for their own researches.
To perform the tasks, the research will follow two complementary axis. The first one is dedicated to  the introduction of space in theoretical inquiries in the area studies.

The second axis will question the geographical point of view of cultural memory. This axis is directly linked to researches at the UNCE Centrum pro výzkum kolektivní paměti led by doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc.

Axis 1. The introduction of space in theoretical inquiries in the area studies: In this axis, we will question the increasing number of empirical and theoretical problematics in the area studies that introduced spatiality as an object of research. We will analyze to what extend the social space in social sciences is not only an object of analysis, but a tool of comprehension and interpration of social phenomena.
Axis 2. Questioning social pasts in the present: toward a cultural geographical inquiry of spatial diachrony.

If the social construction of time and the social relation to space have been largely studied separately, we consider that the deconstruction of scientific conception of time and space and, especially, their relations, permits to approach the spatial phenomena in the variety of its temporalities. Through the analysis of the socio anthropological relation to places and spaces the project proposes a cognitive access to the way societies construct their relation to the pasts.

Contact person: JUDr. PhDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D.
Tel.: +420 251 080 278
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Smetanovo nábř. 995/6
110 01 Prague 1, CZ


* Faculty of Law

Title: Comparative Rights of EU Citizens and their Family Members in the Czech Republic and in other EM Member State(s): Transition and Implementation of the Directive 2004/38/EC of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States

Contact person: Prof. JUDr. Luboš Tichý, CSc.
Tel.: + 420 221 005 576
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law, Centrum právní komparistiky, nám. Curiových 7
116 46 Prague 1, CZ

* Faculty of Physical Education and Training

Titles:
1. Identification of rates for sports talent in the young generation
2. Individual reflection of physical activities in an environment of postmodern society

Contact person: Doc. PaedDr. Bronislav Kračmar, CSc.,
Tel.: +420 220 172 004

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education and Training,
José Martího, 31, 116 32 Prague 6, CZ

* Faculty of Natural Sciences

Title: Numerical modelling of unsaturated soils

Contact person: Doc. RNDr. David Mašín, Ph.D.
Tel: +420 221 951 552
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering
Geology and Applied Geophysics,
Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, CZ

Title: The role of seed bank in plant invasions: metaanalytical and experimental approach


Contact person: Prof. RNDr. Vojtěch Jarošík, CSc.
Tel: +420 221 951 854
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology,
Viničná 7, 128 43 Prague 2, CZ

Title: Interspecific hybridization, gene flow, and cryptic diversity in the Daphnia longispina species complex

Contact person: Doc. RNDr. Adam Petrusek, Ph.D.
Tel.: +420 221 951 874
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology,
Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ


* Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen

Title: The early embryonic development – regulatory mechanisms of differentiation


Contact person: Doc. MUDr. Milena Králíčková, Ph.D.
Tel.: +420 604 724 171, +420 377 593 321
Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Dpt. of Histology and Embryology
Karlovarská 48, 301 00 Pilsen CZ

* 1st Faculty of Medicine

Title: Developmental mechanisms of arrhythmias
The successful candidate will work under the direction of David Sedmera on a project elucidating developmental mechanisms of arrhythmias using the techniques of high-speed optical mapping of electrical activation in the embryonic heart established in the lab (Reckova et al., 2003) in combination with state-of-the-art morphological techniques (in situ hybridization, immunoconfocal microscopy, 3D reconstruction techniques). The model organisms used by the laboratory are avian embryos in ovo and transgenic mice. This line of research has a close relationship with the other directions of the laboratory that include work on hypoxia (Nanka et al., 2008) and pathogenesis of embryonic heart failure (deAlmeida et al., 2007).The candidate would also benefit from close interaction with the Departments of Developmental Cardiology and Cardiovascular Morphogenesis at Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences, located half an hour away in the campus of biomedical institutes at Krc (www.biomed.cas.cz/fgu).


Contact person: Ass. Prof. David Sedmera, MD., D.Sc.
Tel. +420 224 965 941
Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy
U nemocnice 3, 128 00 Prague CZ


* Third Faculty of Medicine

Title: Electrophysiological recording of the spinal cord functions during spine surgery

Contact person: Ass. Prof. Martin Krbec, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: Mail krbec@fnkv.cz
Tel.: +420 267 162 431
Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology,
Šrobárova 50, 100 34 Prague 10, building H, CZ

Title: Mitochondrial dysfunction in initial stages of metabolic disorders

Contact person: MUDr. Jan Trnka Ph.D. MPhil.
Tel.: +420 267 102 407
Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology-Division of Biochemistry,
Ruská 87, 100 00 Prague 2, CZ

Title: Mechanism of spinal cord stimulation in pain suppression


Contact person: Ass. Prof. MVDr. Šimon Vaculín, Ph.D.
Tel.: +420 224 923 241
Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology,
Ruská 87, 100 00 Prague 2, CZ

Title: Modulation of GABA B receptor for neuropathic pain treatment


Contact person: Ass. Prof. MUDr. Miloslav Franěk, Ph.D.
Tel.: +420 224 923 241
Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology,
Ruská 87, 100 00 Prague 2, CZ

Title: Biological high-resolution X-ray imaging using Medipix detectors


Contact person: MUDr. Jan Trnka Ph.D. MPhil.
Tel.: +420 267 102 407
Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology-Division of Biochemistry,
Ruská 87, 100 00 Prague 2, CZ

* Charles University in Prague, Environment Center

Title: Behavior and Environmental Economics: Applied Econometrics
More specifically, we invite applications in the field of applied econometrics with applications to residential energy demand and valuation of health benefits by stated preference techniques. Experience in the field of household energy demand, mortality risk valuation, conjoint choice modelling will be an asset. It is assumed that the applicant will collaborate with research fellows working in Environmental Economics & Sociology Unit of this Center.


Contact person:  Dr. Milan Ščasný
Tel: +420 220 199 460
Charles Univesity in Prague, Environment Center, José Martíno 407/2
130 00 Prague 6, CZ


Application forms

The applicant should provide following application forms and documents:

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