Detailed information about the study programme
Offer of dissertation topics:
- Antipredator defence in aposematic milkweed bugs: honest signalling and trade-offs
- Cytogenomics of selected teleost fishes
- Diversification of hymenopteran parasitoids - role of olfaction
- Evolutionary and phylogenetic diversity of the desert reptiles of Saharo-Arabia
- Evolution and diversification patterns in African lineages of mygalomoprh spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
- Evolution of deep-sea fish vision: cone and rod cells in retina and their involvement in an extreme environment
- Fish vision in the context of molecular evolution
- From refugia to resilience: the adaptive legacy of post-glacial colonization
- Immunological mechanism of host evolutionary adaptation to increasing virulence in a novel avian pathogen
- Population genetics and genomics of grey wolf in Central Europe
- Reproductive division of labor in facultative eusocial Hymenoptera
- Role of bacteriophages in the shaping of primate gut microbiome
- Small Mammals of the Ghardaïa Region of Algeria: Diversity, Ecology, and Relevance for Endemic Leishmaniasis Responsibilities
- The fate of immortality: Understanding the mechanisms of germline-soma distinction in birds
- Tracing the alternative nuclear genetic codes in non-model eukaryotes
- Wings and flight apparatus in Palaeozoic insects
Profile of the graduate
Graduates are experts in zoology. This encompasses a number of sub-disciplines ranging from protozoology, invertebrate zoology, entomology, vertebrate zoology and primatology and human studies. Methodologically, taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolutionary biology, population genetics and genomics, morphology and evo-devo, ethology and behavioural sciences, evolutionary psychology, ecology and conservation animal conservation. The competence of each graduate lies in some combination of methodological approaches and a focus on a particular group of animals. They have experience in project and grant application preparation and team management, presenting results, writing scientific papers, lecturing and international
scientific communication.
Application submission
The application is submitted electronically through the Charles University study information system. The completed application must be submitted electronically in the study information system no later than on 30. 4. 2025 for study programmes starting in the winter semester (October) and no later than on 15. 12. 2025 for study programmes starting in the summer semester (April).
The admission fee is 100 EUR and it is paid for each submitted application.
Entrance exam
The regular date of entrance exam for all doctoral programmes starting in the winter semester (October) is 9. - 20. 6. 2025, an alternative date is 23. - 27. 6. 2025.
The regular date of entrance exam for all doctoral programmes starting in the summer semester (April) is 4. - 5. 2. 2026, an alternative date is 11. - 12. 2. 2026.
The request for an alternative day is submitted and approved via the electronic information system.
The form of the entrance exam is an oral interview, which mainly concerns the issues of the planned dissertation and the candidate's knowledge within the field of expertise of the given study programme.
Find more information in:
- Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, for study programmes starting in the winter semester (October)
or - Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, for study programmes starting in the summer semester (April).
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Applicants with specific needs
If you have a physical handicap, you can apply for a modification of the entrance exam. For more information read the Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes.
Departments involved in this programme
Guarantor of the study programme
doc. RNDr. Jakub Prokop, Ph.D.
jakub.prokop@natur.cuni.cz
Do you have a question?
Complete information about the admission procedure can be found on the website for applicants. For questions, please contact the admissions contact persons.