Postdoctoral Fellowhips.

Astronomický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. vyhlašuje v souladu se zákonem č. 283/1992 Sb. o Akademii věd České republiky, ve znění zákona č. 420/2005 Sb. a Stanov AV ČR výběrové řízení na pozici Postdoctoral Fellowhips.

The Astronomical Institute (ASU, https://asu.cas.cz/en) is the leading astronomical research institute in the Czech Republic, located at the Ondrejov Observatory and in Prague. Its main research activities are in the formation, evolution, dynamics and physical properties of galaxies, stars and star systems, research on the physics of compact objects including black holes and gravitational waves, research on the Sun, solar activity and its effects on processes on Earth and in interplanetary space, research on the Earth's immediate environment, the dynamics of natural and artificial bodies in the Solar System, and research on interplanetary matter and its interaction with the Earth's atmosphere.

For 2027, ASU will consider research project proposals for postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of research conducted at the Institute.

Applicants are required to get in touch with our staff members to discuss their support of the application and to discuss a research project and implementation plan (theory, observation, and data analysis are all welcome). A list of supervisors for hosting postdoctoral fellows in 2026 is provided below.

Only applications that have been discussed with supervisors will be considered. Supervisors are expected to make their private shortlists and only recommend the final submission to the most promising applicants.

Deadlines:

• Get in touch with the selected supervisor before October 9, 2026. Later enquiries may not be accepted.

• Application Deadline is October 23, 2026, 12 PM (noon; in CEST/UTC+2 timezone). Submissions by email to [email protected] with the subject POSTDOC 2027.

Required application parts (all in PDF):

• cover sheet listing: full name, birth date, nationality, current position, the exact date of PhD defence, name of the host/supervisor at ASU, short motivation (½ page max)

• curriculum vitae

• list of publications including citations

• summary of the most significant research results achieved to date and proposed research project (2 pages max in total)

• outline of the implementation plan for 2 years (4500 characters max)

• 2 recommendation letters (to be delivered separately)

Applicants must arrange for a minimum of two recommendation letters to be sent directly to the same electronic address as above. The letters may be issued up to 9 months before the application deadline.

Applications can be submitted slightly before finishing a PhD, in which case a statement from the current supervisor stating the planned date of the defence should be included. Applicants MUST then prove they have been awarded the PhD degree before October 31.

The appointment is initially for one year; an extension for another year is expected upon satisfactory scientific performance. A necessary condition is to satisfy legal requirements for employment in the Czech Republic (EU member state). Salary will be based on the domestic level (cca 1900 EUR/month before taxes (~25%); health insurance is included in the taxes). The starting date of employment is expected to be January 1, 2027, but it is negotiable.

Further information:

• https://www.asu.cas.cz/en/departments for the list of working groups at the Institute
• https://www.euraxess.cz/ for details about the research, employment and work conditions in the Czech Republic
• http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp to compare the cost of living

List of researchers and topics:

• Miroslav Bárta, [email protected]: MHD simulations of solar corona: waves, oscillations, vortices & plasmoids
• Jan Benáček, [email protected]: Pulsars, magnetars, and fast radio bursts
• Abhijeet Borkar, [email protected]: Radio properties of AGN and galaxies
• Jaroslav Dudík, [email protected]: Solar flares and eruptions, solar corona and transition region
• Petr Hellinger, [email protected]: Solar wind turbulence
• Pavel Jáchym, [email protected]: Evolution of galaxies in galaxy clusters
• Jan Jurcak, [email protected]: Magneto-convective processes in the solar photosphere
• Petr Kabáth, [email protected]: Exoplanets and their atmospheres
• Vladimír Karas, [email protected]: Acceleration and collimation processes in strong gravity
• Jana Kašparová, [email protected]: Solar flares in X-ray domain
• Michalis Kourniotis, [email protected]: Machine-learning classification of massive stars
• Artem Koval, [email protected]: Solar radio bursts
• Michaela Kraus, [email protected]: Pulsations, mass eruptions, and evolution of circumstellar environments of blue supergiants and yellow hypergiants
• Jiří Kubát, [email protected]: Radiative transfer and modelling of stellar atmospheres and winds
• Brankica Kubátová, [email protected]: Wind-fed accretion in X-ray binaries
• Olga Maryeva, [email protected]: Physical properties of evolved massive stars and their nebulae
• Dieter Nickeler, [email protected]: Investigations of astrospheric plasma boundaries in the frame of topological fluid dynamics
• Jan Palouš, [email protected]: Feeding supermassive black holes
• Marek Skarka, [email protected]: Stellar variability
• Petr Škoda, [email protected]: Astroinformatics, deep learning and astronomical applications of large language models, namely in the context of exoplanet discovery and analysis
• Jiří Svoboda, [email protected]: Multiwavelength observations of black holes across the mass scale
• Rhys Taylor, [email protected]: Arecibo studies of galaxy evolution
• Richard Wünsch, [email protected]: Formation of stars and star clusters
• Ondřej Zelenka, [email protected]: Gravitational waves from small mass ratio black hole binaries

Inquiries:

Mrs. Lenka Čiháková

[email protected]

Uzávěrka přihlášek: 23. 10. 2026

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