Ph.D. projects

The Ph.D. research projects at the Institute cover a wide range of topics, mainly focused on palaeontology and geobiology, the evolution of life on Earth, and examining the interactions between life and geological processes in the geological past. The Institute offers a truly international environment for Ph.D. research, our current students come from Brasil, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Indonesia. The Ph.D. dissertations defended at our Institute meet the highest international standarts, are commonly written in English, and include papers in highly ranked international journals. Recently, our graduate students also received the Faculty of Science Dean´s Award for the best Ph.D. thesis (Jaroslava Hajná in 2013, Filip Tomek in 2015, Lukáš Laibl in 2017) and obtained research positions at scientific institutions both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Supporting Ph.D. research

Every year, the Institute provides financial support (minigrants) to outstanding short-term research projects of our Ph.D. students. This internal funding is to be used to cover travel expenses and field work, analytical data acquisition, or international conference presentations. Deadline for submitting applications is March, 15th.

Projects supported in 2020

Z. Kozlová: Cephalopod beaks

J. Geist: Using of Micro computer tomography (Micro CT) for expected alveolus of the upper Jurassic belemnite rostrum from North Bohemia (Czech Republic)

T. Kameníková: Cyclicity and paleoenvironmental changes of the oldest pro-delta deposits, Bílina delta, Most Basin, Lower Miocene

M. Kerkhoff: Sampling Upper Coenozoic samples for microbial and microborer activity

M. Rifl: Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Calcareous nannoplankton communities in the Southern Alps and the Central–Western Carpathians

L. Vaňková: Innovative methodology for Mg-low calcite shell analyses (belemnite rostra case study)

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Graduate students

	Jana Čepičková Cenomanian vegetation of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (advisor Jiří Kvaček)
	Marta Leticia Hereino Kerkhoff Microborings in Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils (advisor Katarína Holcová)
	Aneta Hušková Morphological changes on conodont platform elements on the Silurian/Devonian boundary and their application in the global biostratigraphical correlation (advisor Ladislav Slavík)
	Oleksandra Chernomorets Strategy of land plants to adapt to the specific solar conditions based on the fossil wood anatomy and growth ring structure: a case study from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Island, Antarctica (advisor Jakub Sakala)
	Markéta Chroustová Foraminifera as paleoenvironmental proxies of sea-level oscillations and circulation regimes in the Turonian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (advisor Katarína Holcová)
	Victory Armida Janine Jaques Microfossils in medieval and baroque paintings (advisor Katarína Holcová)
	Ondřej Kohout Interdisciplinary research of systematics, stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the Lower and Middle Turonian ammonites in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (advisor Martin Košťák)
	Martina Krejčí The age structure of Late Palaeozoic amphibians from Boskovice Graben (advisor Martin Mazuch)
	Barbora Křížová Interdisciplinary research of palaeoecology of rudist assemblages in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (advisor Martin Košťák)
	Irena Olšanská Late Variscan volcano-plutonic complexes as markers of evolution of post-orogenic tectonic processes (advisor Filip Tomek)
	Jakub Rantuch Palaeocological aspects and evolution of the Late Cretaceous oyster assemblages (advisor Martin Košťák)
	Matic Rifl Triassic and Jurasic microfossils from the Alpine-Carpathian Area  (advisor Katarína Holcová)
	Reza Syahputra Mechanisms and time scales of formation and accretion of ribbon continents (advisor Jiří Žák)
	Vladimír Suchánek The late Pleistocene and Holocene Thecamoebians from the Šumava Mts. (advisor Katarína Holcová)
	Lucia Šmídová Cockroaches of the Mesozoic amber from Myanmar (advisor Pavel Saska)
	Monika Uhlířová Terrestrialization and early evolution of plants from Ordovician to Silurian with special respect to the Barrandian area (advisor Josef Pšenička)
	Lucie Vaňková Lower Cretaceous belemnites (including the J/K boundary interval) in the northeaasternTethys: biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology (advisor Martin Košťák)
	Petra Zahajská A study of autecology of Cretaceous plants using carbon isotopes (advisor Jiří Kvaček)

Student grant projects 

Victory Armida Janine Jaques (2020–2022) Implementace nových mikropaleontologických metod pro určování provenience objektů kulturního dědictví (Projekt GAUK 956120) 

Irena Olšanská (2020–2022) Magnetické petrostavby (AARM a AMS) jako nástroj k porozumění aktivity a vývoje kalder (Projekt GAUK 124320)

Reza Syahputra (2020–2022) Role tektonické inheritance při kontinentálním riftingu a pánevní inverzi (Projekt GAUK 952220)

Aneta Hušková (2019–2021) Zieglerodina petrea sp. nov. a Zieglerodina paucidentata: fylogenetické modely příbuznosti těchto druhů a jejich využití v rámci globální stratigrafie hranice silur/devon (Projekt GAUK 251329)

Milan Chroust (2019–2021) Revize třetihorních želv z mostecké pánve (Česká republika) a jejich celosvětový význam (Projekt GAUK 251220)

Ondřej Kohout (2019–2021) Implikace cenomanských a turonských amonitů české křídové pánve do mezinárodní biostratigrafické zonace (Projekt GAUK 251218)

Vladimír Suchánek (2018–2020) Analýza environmentálně podmíněných změn krytenkových biocenóz v pozdním pleistocénu a holocénu (Projekt GAUK 250848)

Ph.D. dissertations completed in 2017–2019

Filip Scheiner (2019)​ Geochemical markers from foraminiferal tests as a tool for reconstruction of paleoceanological environments: a case study from the Miocene of the Central Paratethys (advisor K. Holcová)

Martina Aubrechtová  Selected cephalopods from the Ordovician of the Prague Basin (Bohemia) and Baltica (Estonia and Sweden): taxonomy, paleobiogeography and paleoecology (advisor M. Košťák)

Tomáš Štor Paleogeographic development of the Cenozoic river systems in the central and northern Bohemia and its link to climatic changes and neotectonics (advisor K. Martínek)

Jana Frojdová Sphenopterid type of true ferns from Carboniferous basins of the Bohemian Massif (advisor Josef Pšenička)

Jan Hošek Upper Pleistocene environmental dynamics in central Europe: multidisciplinary research of loess/paleosols sequences and lacustrine sediments (advisor Lenka Lisá)

Martina Kočová Veselská Crustacea (Decapoda, Cirripedia) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (advisor Martin Košťák)

Lukáš Laibl Ontogeny of selected taxa of middle Cambrian trilobites and agnostoids of the Barrandian area (advisor Oldřich Fatka)

Karolína Lajblová Ostracods of selected stratigraphic levels of the Ordovician of the Prague Basin (advisor Petr Kraft)

Martina Nohejlová Eocrinoid echinoderms from mid-Cambrian of the Barrandian area (advisor Oldřich Fatka)

Valéria Vaškaninová Vertebrates of the Lower Palaeozoic from the Barrandian area (Bohemian Massif) and their comparison with faunas of adjacent areas (advisor Petr Kraft)