M. Roeselová Memorial Fellowship - call for applications 2016

General

The Institute is opening the second call for applications for the Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship. The support is aimed at a Ph.D. students or postdocs who are conducting research at local universities or research institutes and are at the same time primary care givers of a pre-school age child.
     The fund, formed by donations from former colleagues and friends worldwide, is set up in the name of our late colleague Martina Roeselová, who during her Ph.D. studies and subsequent scientific career conducted excellent research while raising three kids. The purpose of the support is to help the selected students or postdocs to conduct competitive research and be a good parent at the same time. The Institute will provide the selected applicants a salary support of 10 000 CZK per month for a period of one year.

Procedures

Support will be provided to students/postdocs selected by an international selection committee based on the submitted applications. Each application should contain the following:

• research plan for one year (1-2 pages),
• short summary on how the salary support will be used (max. 1 page),
• CV of the applicant (max. 2 pages),
• list of publications and conference presentations of the applicant,
• letter of support from the Ph.D. or postdoc advisor of the applicant.

Application should be submitted in English electronically to fellowship@uochb.cas.cz, subjected as "Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship."

Deadlines

Application deadline for the annual call is set to October 20 and the decision of the selection committee will be made public by October 31 of a given calendar year, with the funding period being January 1 - December 31 of the next year.