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CAS Programme to support prospective human resources – postdocs (PPLZ)

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What is the CAS PPLZ programme?

CAS Programme to support prospective human resources – postdocs (PPLZ) aims to support talented early career researchers who are prospective for the development of the existing or new scientific disciplines at CAS institutes. For more details see CAS PPLZ 2025 summary 1 / CAS PPLZ 2025 Summary 2  .

Who can to apply for the CAS PPLZ?

Postdoc with research experience of up to 2 years since finishing their Ph.D. study or up to 4 years if due to a long-term foreign research visit. Career breaks are excluded from these limits.

Why to apply for the CAS PPLZ?

  • It is a good opportunity to attract a talented postdoc to your laboratory.
  • It covers a postdoc salary for a period of 12–24 months.
  • o The financial support includes a postdoc salary with up to 720 000 CZK per year (e.g 44 500 CZK contribution toward your month’s gross salary).

When to apply for the CAS PPLZ?

There are two regular deadlines a year - Spring and Autum cut-off.
The nearest CAS PPLZ deadlines are:

  • 30 Apr midnight annually
  • 30 Sep midnight annually

Due to the CAS condition - approval of the application by the IOCB Board – the internal deadlines are:

  • Tue 15 Apr 2025
  • Mon 15 Sep 2025


  Please inform the Project Office about your intention.  
  Do not hesitate to contact us anytime for consulting, discussion or help.  

How to apply for the CAS PPLZ?

  1. Find and read guidelines::
  2. Contact your supervisor (IOCB group leader) and discuss your research topic for the PPLZ application and negotiate co-funding of your salary provided from CAS PPLZ.
  3. Request authorisation to submit the proposal via the internal electronic IOCB Project Proposal Approval System (PPAS). You must be either connected to the IOCB network or via the IOCB Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access this system.
  4. Complete all parts of your application form:
  5. Finalise your application:
    • Proposal + CV + Motivation Letter (aplicant) + Declaration (aplicant)
    • Recommendation Letter (applicant & supervisor)
  6. Provide the IOCB Project Office with your application for the IOCB Board approval (a CAS mandatory condition) by:
    • Tue 15 Apr 2025
    • Mon 15 Sep 2025

The Project Office will submit your application via the Information system of the CAS Head Office (KIS) and in parallel via the their data box (datová schránka) before the deadline.

Timeline – Spring - 1st cut-off

  • Internal IOCB application deadline: Tue 15 Apr 2025
  • The IOCB Board approval: Apr 2025
  • Final application deadline: 30 Apr midnight annually
  • Final evaluation results: June annually
  • Start of the financial support: 01 July 2025

Timeline – Autum - 2nd cut-off

  • Internal IOCB application deadline: Mon 15 Sep 2025
  • The IOCB Board approval: Sep 2025
  • Final application deadline: 30 Sep midnight annually
  • Final evaluation results: annually
  • Start of the financial support: 01 Jan 2026

Czech Academy of Sciences, Science and Support Division of the Head Office, Národní 3, 117 20 Praha 1
Contact person: Ms. Jana Teplá, ☎: +420 221 403 424, tepla@kav.cas.cz


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IOCB

IOCB participation (14) in CAS PPLZ (period 2017-2024):

  • Matouš Krömer: Identification of physiological substrates of LACTB tumor suppressor (01 July 2023 – Feb 2024).
  • Corinna Brungs: Identification of Biosynthetic Building Blocks in Piperaceae Plants by Utilizing a Newly Created Open MSn SpectralLibrary for Natural Products. (01 Jul 2022 – 30 Jun 2024).
  • Jan Blahut: Ultra-fast magic-angle spinning NMR spectroscopy of molecular solids (01 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2023).
  • María Soledad Garre Hernández: Development of insulin and IGF-1 mimetics (01 Jul 2021 – 30 Jun 2023).
  • Jan Skácel: Development of Novel Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase Inhibitors (01 Jul 2021 – 30 Jun 2023).
  • Thomas Evangelidis: Enhancing Semiempirical Quantum Mechanical Scoring with Machine Learning: a new scoring function that accounts for both the Enthalpic and Entropic contributions to the ligand Binding Free Energy (01 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2022).
  • Jitka Neburková: Quantitative analysis of radicals from a droplet of blood: optically hyperpolarized nanosystems for miniaturized electron spin resonance (01 July 2020 – 30 June 2022).
  • Eliška Procházková: Studium struktury a vlastností nově připravených potenciálně biologicky aktivních látek NMR spektroskopií v kombinaci s kvantově-chemickými výpočty (Jan 2017 – Dec 2018).
  • Paula Rivas Ramirez: Heparan sulfate in pain signaling (01 July 2017 – 30 June 2019).
  • Jiří Kessler: Využití kombinace metod molekulové dynamiky a kvantové chemie pro interpretaci spekter vibrační optické aktivity proteinů a proteinových agregát (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019).
  • Brabcová Jana: Identifikace a studium funkčních vlastností nových enzymů, zapojených do biochemických přeměn netradičních metabolitů (July 2014 – Mar 2020; maternity leave break).
  • Renáta Konášová: Vývoj kapilárních elektromigračních metod online spojených s hmotnostní spektrometrickou detekcí s ionizací elektrosprejem (CE-ESI/MS) a jejich využití pro analýzu peptidů, bílkovin a jiných (bio)molekul (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020).
  • Dhurvas Chandrasekaran Dinesh: Structure-function studies of +ssRNA viral non-structural proteins in and host factors involved in replication machinery (July 2019 – June 2021).
  • Jaroslav Srp: Vývoj biometických inhibitorů cílených na medicinálně významné proteolytické enzymy (July 2019 – June 2021).