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The doctoral study is organized by the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry in cooperation with chemical institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, covering physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, and chemical physics. Modern areas include dynamics and kinetics of physical and chemical processes, statistical thermodynamics of fluids and polymers, advanced electromigration separation methods, and biophysical chemistry. The program reflects global trends and the needs of research facilities and industry in the Czech Republic and the EU.
Application for the programme starting in the winter semester by:
30. 4. 2025
Detailed information about the study programme
Offer of dissertation topics:
- Coarse-grained models for quantitative prediction of acid-base properties of peptides and proteins
- Controlled Transport of Cell-penetrating Peptides across Biological Membranes – Single Molecule Fluorescence Approach
- Design of advanced catalytic materials by top-down construction and crystal structure nano-architectonics
- Design of nanomaterials by concerted structural and chemical modification of labile precursors
- Development and testing of force fields for biomolecular simulations
- Development of MXene-based hybrid catalysts for efficient photo-electrochemical hydrogen production
- Development of new bifunctional and cooperative catalysis for enantioselective transformations
- Development of New Enantioselective Reactions Using Brønsted Acid Catalysis
- Excited state molecular dynamics with non-adiabatic and spin-orbit effects assisted by machine learning
- Ionization of weak polyelectrolytes in the semidilute and entangled regimes
- Mapping galectin-ganglioside networks on complex model membrane systems
- Modeling of the Gibbs-Donnan equilibrium in protein solutions
- Modeling of interaction of ions and charged peptides with phospholipid membranes
- Modeling of structure and reactivity of solvated electrons
- Nuclear quantum effects studied by NMR spectroscopy and theoretical calculations
- Preparation and Characterization of Quantum-Optical Bionanosensors
- Quantum Sensing Using Optical Bionanosensors
- Relativistic corrected coupled cluster methods externally corrected by higher excitations from DMRG
- Stabilization of metal nanoparticles by defects of 2D zeolites
- Structural studies of histone chaperones
- Structure and function of new interaction partners in bacterial transcription
- Study of molecular systems on surfaces by means of Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Theoretical studies of reaction mechanisms of on-surface synthesis
- Theoretical study of chemical reaction mechanisms
- The role of acid-base equilibria in polyelectrolyte complexation and biomolecular condensation
Profile of the graduate
A Ph.D. graduate in Physical Chemistry has basic knowledge covering all fields of chemistry, plus advanced knowledge of physical chemistry, computational chemistry, or both, as well as usually having good interdisciplinary knowledge oriented toward the fields of biology, physics, or nanoscience, according to his/her thesis. The graduate is able to present his/her results at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Experience in teaching undergraduate students, the formulation of grant proposals. The graduate is highly qualified for creative work at any academic, research or technological laboratory dealing with the development, testing and application of new and traditional chemical and physical methods as well as with new materials.
Application submission
The application is submitted electronically through the Charles University study information system. The completed application must be submitted electronically in the study information system no later than on 30. 4. 2025 for study programmes starting in the winter semester (October) and no later than on 15. 12. 2025 for study programmes starting in the summer semester (April).
The admission fee is 100 EUR and it is paid for each submitted application.
Entrance exam
The regular date of entrance exam for all doctoral programmes starting in the winter semester (October) is 9. – 20. 6. 2025, an alternative date is 23. – 27. 6. 2025.
The regular date of entrance exam for all doctoral programmes starting in the summer semester (April) is 4. – 5. 2. 2026, an alternative date is 11. – 12. 2. 2026.
The request for an alternative day is submitted and approved via the electronic information system.
The form of the entrance exam is an oral interview, which mainly concerns the issues of the planned dissertation and the candidate’s knowledge within the field of expertise of the given study programme.
Find more information in:
- Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, for study programmes starting in the winter semester (October)
or - Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, for study programmes starting in the summer semester (April).
Důležité odkazy
Applicants with specific needs
If you have a physical handicap, you can apply for a modification of the entrance exam. For more information read the Conditions of the admission procedure for doctoral study programmes.
Departments involved in this programme
Guarantor of the study programme
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Obšil, Ph.D.
tomas.obsil@natur.cuni.cz
Do you have a question?
Complete information about the admission procedure can be found on the website for applicants. For questions, please contact the admissions contact persons.
