Instructions
for Applicants to initiate the Granting procedure of Associate Professorship
valid until 30.03.2025
1) Basic information
The
Granting procedure (Habilitation) is regulated by Act No.
111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, Code of Procedure for the Granting of
Associate Professorship and Full Professorship of Charles University and Rules
For The Granting Of Associate Professorship And Full Professorship At The
Faculty and Rector's Directive N.
35/2019.
2) Accredited
fields for the Associate and Full Professorship procedures at the Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics
3) Profile of Associate
Professor at the MFF UK in the field of science, teaching and service to the
academic community
An Associate Professor is an
internationally accomplished researcher, has successful teaching experience and
an active approach to service to the academic
community.
Research: The applicant will have
her/his own clearly defined research programme and international accomplishments
proven in a way standard for her/his research field, supported by letters
written by distinguished experts in the area. Depending on the area in question,
quantitative metrics used will include (co-)authorship of original publications,
adequately cited and published in international IF-journals or proceedings of
renowned conferences; important contributions to the creation of reviewed
artifacts1); invited talks at international conferences, etc. Authorship of
survey or review papers and chapters in research books and monographs is also
appreciated. The applicant will have submitted project proposals to major
national and international grant agencies and will have been a grant recipient
at least at a national level.
Teaching: The applicant will have
experience in teaching university courses, receiving for them good student
evaluations, and in supervising undergraduate theses. Experience in the
supervision of graduates is appreciated.
Service: The applicant
is expected to have served the international research community, e.g., as a reviewer for journals, conferences, and grant agencies, as a (co-)organizer of
conferences and workshops, and as an active member of professional
organizations. She/he will actively participate in committees and the
administrative and service activities of her/his Department.
1)
acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging
4)
Recommended aspects of evaluation for the Associate and Full Professorship
procedures at Charles University.
To obtain the title of
Associate Professor (docent in Czech) in certain fields, the faculty will
recommend applicants who meet the Recommended Aspects of evaluation for the
Associate and Full Professorship procedures at Charles
University.
5) List of required documents for initiating the
procedures for the granting of Associate Professorship (Habilitation
procedures)
It is recommended to submit required documents, in
English, due to the participation of foreign experts in the commission. All
paperwork for submission must be printed out, signatures will need to be
handwritten with the current date (except for diplomas and habilitation
thesis).
- A consent for Charles
University to process personal data
- An application
- The application must include full
name of an accredited field (e.g. Physics – Didactics of Physics) for the
granting procedure of Associate Professorship (Habilitation), a list of
accredited fields is available here
- Verified
copies of diplomas for the completion of Master’s and PhD education/
Doctorate degree in the same field of study as the Habilitation (ideally in
form A4)
- Academic
CV
- Includes the Title of the diploma, rigorosum and dissertation thesis
and names of thesis supervisors
- Includes a summary of teaching and the
number of students supervised and defended
- Includes the roles in grants
(principal investigator, co-investigator, member of the
research team)
- Includes participation in invited lectures, plenary
lectures, etc.
- Includes the title of the Habilitation dissertation and
the year of obtaining the title „doc.“
- Includes the ORCID
number
- Proof of work experience (for the Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics, Charles University employees, this statement is issued
by faculty personnel department)
- Include a brief statement on teaching
contribution to the development of the field, innovations in teaching and
perceptions/views of applicant’s further work in the
given field
- Complete transcript of pedagogical activities for last five
years – signed (indicate only carried out activities)
- Includes a list
of currently supervised students in Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD study
programs and the year of their enrollment
- Includes a list of students in
Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD study programs led by the applicant and the
academic year in which these students graduated
- The
candidate's annotated selection of the five most important works and their
contribution to the field (the full text of the publications should not be
included in the document)
- List of
publications with impact factor for periodicals where it
exists – signed
- Applicants are asked to follow the order of
publications according to the list
- For the accredited fields
“Didactics and History of Mathematics and Computer Science” and
“Physics – Didactics of Physics”, applicants follow the recommended
aspects and requirements for applicants regulated by the Dean’s Directive
no. 2/2020
- Citation
index of the applicant’s work listed in WOS, SCOPUS databases, or other
verifiable citations
- The applicant will provide annotated selection at
least 5 of his/hers best publications and a list of citations for each of them.
The minimum amount is 20 citations for the field of Physics, a minimum
15 citations for Computer Science and Mathematics
- For the accredited
fields “Didactics and History of Mathematics and Computer Science” and
“Physics – Didactics of Physics”, applicants follow the recommended
aspects and requirements regulated by Dean’s Directive
no. 2/2020
- Copies of relevant WOS pages
- The list
is created on the Web of Science website, via Create Citation Report. The
applicant will provide a complete version of the list with a line graph
- Materials for
evaluation
- International experiences – An overview of stays abroad
longer than 1 month in total. May include study abroad or internships with the
dates and duration of stay, participation in conferences is not to be
included.
- If applicant has not completed any international stays, state
that in place of international experience.
- Training/Supervision of
scientific workers (postdoc etc.)
- Grant and research tasks and
results – Include a list of significant grants and briefly describe
results.
- Habilitation
dissertation
- 1× electronically
- If the Habilitation
dissertation is a written work or a monography, it should also be
submitted
- If the Habilitation dissertation is a collection of published
scientific papers accompanied by a commentary, this is also an acceptable
version
- One complete electronic version of the Habilitation dissertation,
including a list of published scientific papers with full bibliographic data
including DOI
- One abbreviated electronic version of the Habilitation
dissertation without the published scientific papers, but with a list of
published scientific papers with full bibliographic data
and DOI
- 1 bound copy
All
applicants are asked to examine point 6 below. “Process related to the procedures for the
granting of Associate Professorship”, including the link.
The
documents, together with the assessment of compliance with the criteria, will be
checked by a designated Vice-Dean.
In the decision-making process, the
Scientific Board has at least one copy of each document that was used by the
Commission.
The applicant has the right to submit to the Scientific Board
any additional documents in printed form at the Habilitation lecture if they are
relevant for the comprehensive assessment of the applicant’s personality and
his/her work.
6)
Procedure in Habilitation proceedings
Since 5th October 2017,
the granting procedure of Associate Professorship at the Faculty of Mathematics
and Physics, Charles University have been conducted with the support of the CHRES
application.
7)
Recommendations to Habilitation lectures and Full Professorship
lectures.
8)
Fees for the granting of Associate Professorship and the Full Professorship
procedure
