[Job-offers-cs] Postdoc positions in discrete geometry and related areas, Charles University, Prague

[Pekka Orponen]

Two postdoc positions in discrete geometry and related areas are 
available at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Faculty of 
Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Prague.

Starting date: January 1, 2026 (negotiable)

Duration: one year with a possibility of extension of another year

Salary: 64 000 - 68 000 CZK/month + health insurance covered

The positions are funded and supported by a five year project "DiGeo: 
Fundamental Questions in Discrete Geometry" (2023-2027) funded by the 
Science Foundation of the Czech Republic. Each of the positions also 
comes with travel funding.

The project is focused on problems in various areas of and related to 
discrete geometry, including convexity questions for point sets, 
visibility, graph drawing, crossing numbers of graphs, semialgebraic 
hypergraphs, and Delauney graphs.

The project involves Martin Balko, Vit Jelinek, Jan Kratochvil, Jan 
Kyncl, Maria Saumell, Pavel Valtr, and a group of PhD students.

Qualification requirements: Ph.D. degree obtained before the starting 
date and no more than 6 years ago.

Please send applications by email to digeo at kam.mff.cuni.cz
(with Cc. to valtr at kam.mff.cuni.cz), including:
- a cover letter with a research proposal (2-3 pages),
- a detailed CV (2-3 pages),
- a list of publications,
- proofs of education and awarding of academic titles
- a list of citations preferably by WoS; an additional list of
citations not included in WoS may be added, but is not mandatory


The applicant must also arrange for 2-3 letters of recommendation to be 
sent as well to digeo at kam.mff.cuni.cz (with Cc. to valtr at kam.mff.cuni.cz).

Application deadline: July 31, 2025. (If possible, we ask candidates to 
inform us about the intention to apply and/or send us a draft of the 
application before July 20, 2025.)

Informal inquires:
Pavel Valtr, email <valtr at kam.mff.cuni.cz>.

Information about the project:
https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/digeo/