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Job offer: Postdoctoral researcher

Application deadline September 30, 2026

The Rector of Charles University announces an opening for a position at the Center for Theoretical Study:

Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the research fields developed at the CTS, with an emphasis on transdisciplinary overlaps and dialogue between natural and social sciences/humanities.

The position is for 2 years

Expected starting date is 1st January 2027

Gross monthly salary ranging from CZK 40,000 to 44,000

Place of work: Prague

Aplication Requirements:

Completed Ph.D., no more than 6 years from the date of obtaining the degree (or an equivalent qualification)

Fluent English

Demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities

Required documents:

A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics

Professional CV

List of publications

Copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmation of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission

Two references

Applications must be submitted by e-mail to office@cts.cuni.cz by 30 September 2026. Receipt of an application is confirmed only upon issuance of a confirmation e-mail within 7 days.

For more information, you may contact us at tel. +420 222 220 671 or at the above e-mail. (created 24. 8. 2026)

International Training Course on Wetland Restoration in the Context of Climate Change

Application deadline: 10 August 2026

You can find more information here. (created 13. 7. 2026)

Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections Continues in Berlin

On 4–5 June 2026, Humboldt University of Berlin will host the second workshop in the series Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections, organized within the CENTRAL network collaboration between Charles University (CTS), Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Vienna. The workshop is organized by the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). (created 3. 6. 2026)

Workshop Invitation: Forgetting, Disappearance, and Material Loss

Date: 20. 5. 2026, Venue: Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague 1

The Workshop Program is in the attached invitation here. (created 5. 5. 2026)

Registration Opened! Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026

Application deadline: April 30, 2026

You can find more information here. (created 18. 2. 2026)

David Stroch v rozhovoru pro Seznam Zprávy vysvětluje, kde mají v Česku vzniknout národní parky.

Link k článku zde. (created 30. 12. 2025)

Arnost Sizling and colleagues just published (online) a paper in Ecography showing that all pairwise community indices can be classified to only three meaningful families, and the popular partioning into nestedness and turnover component makes no sense.

Link to the article here. (created 9. 12. 2025)

Workshop Invitation: Ruins and Relics: Rhytms, Temporalities, and Trajectories of Change

Date: 3. 12. 2025, Venue: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1, 5th floor

The Workshop Program is in the attached invitation here.

Excursion Guide to download here. (created 1. 12. 2025)

David Storch, Grace Ridder and Jordan Okie have just published (online) a paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which applies Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics on our understanding of global biodiversity changes during the Cenozoic. They show how the diversity equilibria establish, and infer that while temperate diversity is probably below its equilibrium level, tropical diversity may be above equilibrium, which elevates extinction risk in tropical biomes.

Link to the article here. (created 21. 11. 2025)

A collection of group final projects by participants of the Microcredential Programme Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in a Transdisciplinary Perspective (2024 run) has been released.

The publication establishes a periodic digital series, Acta Anthropocenica, which we plan to continue in future editions of the course.

If you’re curious how beehives, glass panes, Tyrian purple, fordit, or perfume relate to the Anthropocene, you can download the publication from our website.

The publication is available in the repository Zenodo v modu Open Access.

(created 12. 11. 2025)