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| Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences for 2026 | Closing date: 2025-09-10
Contact: Lenka Cihakova |
| 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. | | ▸ more | The Institute's 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 2026, 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:
1. Get in touch with the selected supervisor before September 1st. Later enquiries may not be accepted.
2. Application Deadline is September 10, 2025, 12 PM (noon; in CEST/UTC+2 timezone). Submissions by email to sekretariat @ asu.cas.cz with the subject POSTDOC 2026.
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 (half page maximum)
- curriculum vitae
- list of publications
- summary of the most significant research results achieved to date and proposed research
project (two pages maximum in total)
- outline of the implementation plan for two years (4500 characters max)
- 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 by September 26. 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 1700 EUR/month before taxes; health insurance included). There is a possibility of staff accommodation in Ondrejov; in Prague, private accommodation has to be arranged. The starting date of employment is expected to be January 1, 2026, but it is negotiable. Applications from applicants who are less than two years past obtaining their PhD will be considered separately. A shortlist will be preselected within 2 weeks of the application deadline, and listed applicants may be invited for an online interview. Once the evaluation process is completed, all applicants will be notified.
Further information:
o https://www.asu.cas.cz/en/departments for the list of working groups at the Institute
o https://www.euraxess.cz/ for details about the research, employment and work conditions
in the Czech Republic
o http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp to compare the cost of living
List of researchers and topics:
- Jaroslav Dudik, Solar flares and eruptions, solar corona and transition region
- Petr Kabath, Exoplanets and their atmospheres
- Jana Kasparova, Solar flares in X-ray domain
- Ondrej Zelenka, Gravitational waves from small mass ratio black hole binaries
- Marek Skarka, Stellar variability
- Jiri Svoboda, Multiwavelength observations of black holes across the mass scale
- Artem Koval, Solar radio bursts
- Petr Hellinger, Solar wind turbulence
- Sona Ehlerova, Structures in the interstellar medium
- Jan Palous, Feeding supermassive black holes
- Richard Wunsch, Formation of stars and star clusters
- Pavel Jachym, Evolution of galaxies in galaxy clusters
- Michaela Kraus, Pulsations in blue supergiants and evolution of massive stars
- Brankica Kubatova, Multi-wavelength analysis of massive hot stars and inhomogeneous stellar winds
- Jiri Kubat, Radiative transfer and modelling of stellar atmospheres and winds
- Michal Dovciak, X-ray astrophysics of black holes in AGN and XRBs - spectra, timing and polarization in theory and observations
- Rhys Taylor, Arecibo studies of galaxy evolution
- Olga Maryeva, Physical properties of evolved massive stars and their nebulae
- Petr Skoda, Astroinformatics, advanced machine learning and usage of large language models and pre-trained transformers in astronomy
- Michalis Kourniotis, Machine-learning classification of massive stars
- Vladimir Karas, Acceleration and collimation processes in strong gravity
Inquiries:
Ms. Lenka Cihakova
sekretariat @ asu.cas.cz
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