Junior Faculty

Our peer-to-peer community aims to serve as a platform for networking and experience exchange as well as an advisory board for the faculty policy-making bodies.

Faculty of Science, Charles University
Albertov 6, Prague, Czechia

Welcome to the Junior Faculty website!

Junior Faculty is an association of early- and mid-career researchers who are, or are becoming, group leaders and future academic leaders at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. Our mission is to stimulate the research environment by providing peer support and advice in areas related to research, building on our previous experience at diverse institutions worldwide.

We focus on four essential topics in future development of the Faculty, within the following Focus Groups

Career development Research support Teaching Campus development

We address topics crucial for the successful development of internationally recognized research groups at our university, related to career paths, research projects, teaching networking and generally inclusive international environment at our Faculty. Read more in our One-pager

Jan Mašek, chair

Gianvito Scaringi, vice-chair

Steering group members

Martin Margold Klára Hlouchová Roswitha Schmickl Jan Dobeš Ondřej Mottl Tomáš Pánek Filip Kolář

Get involved! Our organization welcomes new members from the Faculty of Science research community who consider themselves early- to mid-career researchers, identify with our mission, and would like to help steer our institution. Join us via our onboarding form.