The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University is looking for a colleague to join the Department of Archaeology and Museology with focus on humanities or natural sciences, such as archaeology, art history, anthropology, genetics, geology, climatology, botany and geophysics. The successful candidate will participate in research activities of the project “Ready for the future: understanding long-term resilience of the human culture (RES-HUM)” which is focused on understanding basic principles of the resilience of human society in a historical perspective using long time series and on the transfer of the acquired knowledge into everyday social life.
The researcher will be integrated in the research team of doc. Dr. Peter Milo in collaboration with his research group at Masaryk university. The candidate is expected to apply an innovative approach to archaeology and other disciplines, to pursue a holistic and interdisciplinary concept of research on human society and its resilience in the past.
The applicant will be free to decide on which research he/she wants to participate in the project (prehistoric, protohistoric, medieval, classical archaeology, cooperation with natural science disciplines, etc.).
Duties
- Performance of auxiliary/partial research and development work according to the instructions of the senior employee.
- Work in a research team/group.
- Involvement in publication activities, possibly also presentation of research results.
Requirements
- have excellent communication skills and be able to collaborate with multiple teams
- demonstrate a capacity for innovative research, new methods & methodologies, and cross-disciplinary thinking
- be able to cooperate on an international research project
- ability to carry out independent scientific research
- ability to collaborate on complex scientific, research, development or artistic tasks in a research team
- ability to present research results
- ability to publish
- IT skills in research work
- diligence, responsibility, reliability
- openness to change
- team spirit
Benefits
6 weeks of paid vacation per year, flexible working hours with the possibility to work partly from home for better work life balance, meal allowance in the salary or for meals in canteens, pension insurance contribution or nursery school/ playgroup allowance, selected vaccinations free of charge, favourable mobile tariffs Vodafone, Multisport card, sports lessons organized by the Faculty of Sports Studies, the nursery school Elánek for children of employees near the faculty.
Organization/Company – Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts.
Research field – History » Archaeology.
Research profile – First Stage Researcher (R1).
Country – Czech Republic.
Application Deadline – 14 Nov 2025 – 23:59 (Europe/Prague).
More information: Euraxess
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