Instructions
for Applicants to initiate the Granting procedure of Full
Professorship valid until 30.03.2025
1) Basic
information
The Granting procedure of Full Professorship 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
Regulations for the Associate Professorship and Full Professorship 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 Full
Professor at the MFF UK in the field of science, teaching and service to the
academic community
A Full Professor is an internationally
recognized personality, both for her/his research and for educational
activities.
Research: The applicant has a distinguished research
programme with international recognition supported by letters written by
distinguished experts in her/his research field. She/he has become a key and
influential personality of the relevant Department. She/he has authored a number
of highly cited publications relevant to her/his research programme. She/he has
been recognized by the research community, for example by being an invited or
plenary speaker and member of programme and steering committees at renowned
international conferences. The distinguished position of the applicant will also
be documented by authoring invited surveys, reviews, books or monographs. The
applicant takes part in important national and international
projects.
Teaching: The applicant has a leadership position in
teaching and guarantees the quality of the education programmes in her/his
research field, which she/he has created and/or substantially modified,
effectively establishing a new “school of research.” His/her former
undergraduate and graduate students are expected to be successful both inside
and outside academia.
Service: The applicant assumes important
roles in serving the international academic community (such as being an editor
of a research journal, or as an organizer or other key role at important
conferences). She/he plays an essential part in committees and the
administrative and service activities of her/his Department and fulfils the role
of mentor to her/his younger colleagues.
4) Recommended aspects
of evaluation for the Associate and Full Professorship procedures at Charles
University
To obtain the title of Full Professor in certain
fields, the faculty will recommend applicants who meet the Recommended Aspects of evaluation for the
Full Professorship procedures at Charles University.
5) List
of required documents for initiating the procedures for the granting of the Full
Professorship
Due to the participation of foreign experts
in the Commission, it is recommended to submit the required documents in
English.
All documents must be printed, signed by hand
and dated (except for diplomas).
- 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)
- The candidate shall attach to the application
printed articles (at least 5), monographs, textbooks, teaching texts, etc.,
which will be submitted to the members of the Scientific Board of the MFF UK for
review during the candidate's lecture before the Scientific Board of the
MFF UK.
- 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.
- At least two
written opinions of professors of the same or related field
All
applicants are asked to examine point 6 below. “Process related to the procedures for the
granting of Full 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
her/his work.
6)
Procedure for the appointment of a Full Professorship
Since
5th October 2017, the granting procedure of Full 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
