Post-Doctorate Fellowships

CERGE-EI Postgraduate Fellowships for Western-Educated Economists returning to Central and Eastern Europe

The CERGE-EI Foundation provides fellowships for economists who obtained their PhD in the United States or Western Europe and who are assuming a full-time academic position in any country in Central and Eastern Europe (including the countries of the former Soviet Union). The purpose of the fellowship is to make academic careers in the post-communist countries more attractive for such graduates by providing supplemental income that should bridge the gap between academic and private sector salaries. The fellowship also provides a set of services designed to improve the academic environment for the fellow.

The donor who provided funding for the fellowships has a desire to improve the quality of economics education in Central and Eastern Europe. Young graduates from North American or Western European universities who accept academic positions in the region are essential to that purpose. The Postgraduate Fellowship program was established in 2007, initially for PhD graduates from CERGE-EI in Prague. Starting in 2009, the fellowships have been extended to PhD graduates from any university in the Western academic world.

The fellowship is $7,200 per year and is guaranteed to be provided for 3 years. If the program receives sufficient funding in the future, the fellowships may be renewed. The fellowship is over and above the salary paid by the university where the fellow will teach.

Current Post-Doctorate Fellows

2011 Awardees (2011 - 2014)

Karel Janda (PhD CERGE-EI, 1996)
Faculty of Finance, University of Economics in Prague and
Department of Microeconomics and Mathematical Methods, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Hubert János Kiss (PhD University of Alicante, 2009)
Department of Economics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

Martina Lubyová (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Department of Statistics, Faculty of  Economic Informatics, Economics University in Bratislava

 

2010 Awardees (2010 - 2013)

Anikó Bíró (PhD Central European University, 2010)
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
(withdrawn in 2011, accepted full-time position at the University of Edinburgh)

Inna Čábelková (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

Farrukh Irnazarov (PhD University of Groningen, in process)
National University of Uzbekistan

Dmitri Kolyuznov (PhD CERGE-EI, 2008)
Novosibirsk State University, Russia

Katarína Svítková (PhD CERGE-EI, 2007)
Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic

Pavel Vacek (PhD Cornell University, 2007)
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
 

2009 Awardees (2009-2012)

Anna Bogomolova (PhD CERGE-EI, in process)
Novosibirsk State University, Russia

Elena Mielcová (PhD CERGE-EI, 2002)
Faculty of Business Administration, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

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