at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics at Charles University, Prague.
Starting date: January 1, 2026 (negotiable)
Duration: one year with a possibility of extension of another year
Salary: 64 000 - 68 000 CZK/month + health insurance covered
The positions are funded and supported by a five year project "DiGeo:
Fundamental Questions in Discrete Geometry" (2023-2027) funded by the
Science Foundation of the Czech Republic. Each of the positions also comes
with travel funding.
The project is focused on problems in various areas of and related to
discrete geometry, including convexity questions for point sets,
visibility, graph drawing, crossing numbers of graphs, semialgebraic
hypergraphs, and Delauney graphs.
The project involves Martin Balko, Vit Jelinek, Jan Kratochvil, Jan Kyncl,
Maria Saumell, Pavel Valtr, and a group of PhD students.
Qualification requirements: Ph.D. degree obtained before the starting date
and no more than 6 years ago.
Please send applications by email to digeo@kam.mff.cuni.cz
(with Cc. to valtr@kam.mff.cuni.cz), including:
- a cover letter with a research proposal (2-3 pages),
- a detailed CV (2-3 pages),
- a list of publications,
- proofs of education and awarding of academic titles
- a list of citations preferably by WoS; an additional list of
citations not included in WoS may be added, but is not mandatory
The applicant must also arrange for 2-3 letters of recommendation to be
sent as well to digeo@kam.mff.cuni.cz (with Cc. to valtr@kam.mff.cuni.cz).
Application deadline: July 31, 2025. (If possible, we ask candidates to
inform us about the intention to apply and/or send us a draft of the
application before July 20, 2025.)
Informal inquires:
Pavel Valtr, email <valtr at kam.mff.cuni.cz>.
Information about the project:
https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/digeo/
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