Announcement of the Call for Applications under the Program:
Call No. 02_16_027 for International Mobility of Researchers in Priority Axis 2 of the OP VVV
Project Name: Mobility Support at UP
Supported Activity No. 1 - Working stays of post-docs from abroad in the Czech Republic - Faculty of Science
Mobility No. 5
Hosting Institution/Faculty/Department: Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials
Mobility Location: Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Duration: 19 month
Term: 09/2018 - 03/2020
Mobility description:
Graphene represents one of today's most progressive materials with broad portfolio of applications. The biggest future for graphene is predicted in spintronics, i.e. in specialized field of electronics dealing with design and construction of new electronic components with better properties compared to silicon units. Graphene shows unique electrical properties but lacks magnetic response. Magnetic properties can be imprinted to graphene using various strategies with a common ground of introducing defects to graphene lattice. The nature and concentration of defects makes it possible to conveniently tune electric and magnetic properties of graphene towards material that could become promising and competitive in the field of spintronics. Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) has already made partial progress in synthesis and characterization of new graphene-based materials with suitable magnetic properties. Nevertheless, there is a need to start or develop cooperation with other prominent partners in this area with the goal to transfer knowledge and understand the role of individual parameters towards the development of new spintronic materials. The mobility therefore includes the exchange of leading experts or excellent young researchers active in the field of graphene and its derivatives and their stay in RCPTM which enables optimization of development of spintronic graphene-based materials and searching new ways to their implementation in real devices.
The researcher is obliged to actively participate in a conference / seminar / workshop, etc. organized by the hosting institution at least once in every six months of the mobility.
Support for the Researcher's Family: YES
To make it possible for a researcher to stay in close contact with his or her family members the researcher can receive financial support amounting to 13 197 CZK per each month of mobility. A family member is considered to be a spouse or a person with an equivalent relationship legally defined in the country where it was formalized; his or her dependent child or a dependent child placed into his or her foster care.
Salary Offered: from 62 953 CZK
Requirements for candidates:
Phase I
- The candidate is a post-doc in accordance with the definition; that is, a researcher up to 7 years after being granted the Ph.D. degree or its foreign equivalent[1] (equivalent to level 8 of ISCED) since the date of submitting the project application, and
- Has been active outside the Czech Republic in the field of science and research with the working time of at least 0.5 for at least 2 years (as of the date of submitting the project application) within the last 3 years, or was a Ph.D. student abroad, and
- Proves his/her publication activity (professional publications registered in the databases Web of Science, Scopus or ERIH PLUS, and at the same time publications in the form of "an article", "book chapters", "a letter" and "a review") - at least 2 publication outputs in the last 3 years (as of the date of submitting the project application).
The candidates who fail to fulfil the criteria of Phase I set above will be excluded from the selection procedure. The candidates who fulfil the qualification criteria of Phase I proceed to the assessment within Phase II.
Assessment method:
Phase II
The fulfilment / non-fulfilment of exclusion criteria within Phase I, as well as the required expertise and requested documentation will be assessed by a committee consisting of at least three members.
The individual candidates will be assessed by the committee at a common meeting according to the following criteria:
Criterion 1:
The number and quality of articles in impact factor journals and other publications
Possible rating: min. 0, max. 40 points
Criterion 2:
Participation in scientific-research projects (international, national)
Possible rating: min. 0, max. 20 points
Criterion 3:
Benefits for the hosting institution within the respective field of study (scientific field) the candidate is applying for
Possible rating: min. 0, max. 20 points
Criterion 4:
The need for research in the particular field of study (scientific field)
Possible rating: min. 0, max. 10 points
Criterion 5:
Recommendation by the previous supervisor or the Head of the workplace/scientific-research team where the candidate operates
Possible rating: min. 0, max. 10 points
The maximum rating achievable is 100 points. When assessing the candidates with regard to criteria 1 and 2, the particular candidate achieves the number of points for fulfilling the particular criterion in accordance with the objectively identifiable value set above. When assessing the candidates with regard to criteria 3, 4 and 5, each member of the selection committee awards the points to the particular candidate individually at his/her discretion. The final number of points for the particular candidate is the arithmetic mean of the rating awarded by the individual committee members. The winner of the selection procedure is the candidate having achieved the most points in the assessment of the individual criteria.
A written record of the assessment procedure will be made, including the information about the composition of the assessment committee, the criteria of candidate assessment, the reasoning of ratings, and the name of the winner.
The results of the assessment procedure will be published on the UP website.
Documents requested:
Professional CV
Diploma or nostrification
Document(s) proving research activity outside the Czech Republic
A list of publication outputs in the last 3 years
A list and a brief description of scientific-research projects (national and international) where the candidate collaborated on in the last 3 years
Cover letter including specification of the benefits for the hosting institution
Brief description of the research the researcher intends to work on; justification of its need in relation to the research field
Recommendation by the previous supervisor or the Head of the workplace/scientific-research team where the candidate operates
Mobility schedule approved by the hosting institution
All documents listed above must be submitted in either Czech or English.
Successful candidates shall not be working at any other university or institution at the time of the expected beginning of their mobility. Any exception has to be requested within the admission procedure.
The applications may be submitted in the electronic form to the address ivana.saitzova@upol.cz until 1. 6. 2018.
[1] The given period may be extended for the period of maternal and parental leave, long-term illness (for more than 90 days), nursing a family member (for more than 90 days), preparation for an attestation, and military service.