Since 2017, Masaryk University has been offering exceptional support to top researchers through GAMU, its grant agency. The MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) is aimed at Czech and international researchers in all fields of the natural and social sciences and the humanities who have achieved outstanding professional results and provides them with significant incentives to work in Brno.
Masaryk University is now announcing two grant categories, one for experienced researchers (MASH) and the other for younger researchers who are trying to secure a European Research Council (ERC) grant for MU in the Starting or Consolidator category, i.e. MASH StG/CoG. Those interested in these grants can apply until 9 December 2024.
Detailed profiles of the candidates can be found on the MU Grant Agency website. “MASH grant applicants should be ERC grant holders or senior researchers with excellent track record. Applicants for the MASH StG/CoG should be promising young researchers who have obtained their PhD or equivalent degree less than 10 years before the application deadline,” said Pavla Pospíšilová from the Research Office, which administers the selection procedure.
Thanks to this exceptional funding, which includes support of CZK 5 million per year for five years in the senior category and CZK 3 million per year for four years in the junior category, six top researchers have already moved to MU from abroad. The first was computer scientist and mathematician Daniel Kráľ, followed by art historian Matthew Rampley, astrophysicist Norbert Werner, computer scientist Jan Křetínský, physicist Jan Kuneš and, in the most recent call, the astronomer Tereza Jeřábková, who will start working at Masaryk University in 2025, became the first female scientist to receive the grant.