The Czech Government has appointed Assoc. Prof. Hana Čížková to the GACR Presidium effective 10 December 2024 to take charge of the field of Life Sciences. She is replacing RNDr. Alice Valkárová, DrSc., whose second term of office has ended after eight years. A Presidium member may serve a maximum of two terms.
Assoc. Prof. Hana Čížková, Ph.D., graduated in geophysics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. She focuses on numerical modelling of convection in the Earth’s mantle. She is the head of the Geophysics Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. She is a member of the Board of the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and has been its Vice-Chair since 2013. She participates in projects with colleagues from the United States and the Netherlands within the Visiting Research Fellowship funded by a research centre in the Netherlands. At the Charles University, she is a lecturer, supervisor and doctoral program supervisor in the Physics of the Earth and Planets. She has served as a member of the evaluation panels and the OK2 discipline committee (and has chaired it since 2023).
About the Presidium of the Czech Science Foundation
The Presidium of GACR is appointed by the government of the Czech Republic upon the nomination of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation. It is composed of five members representing five basic scientific disciplines – Technical Sciences (prof. Ing. Martin Hartl, Ph.D.), Life Sciences (Assoc. Prof. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.), Medical and Biological Sciences (prof. MUDr. Mgr. Milan Jirsa, CSc.), Social Sciences and Humanities (assoc. prof. PhDr. Martina Hřebíčková, DSc.), and Agricultural and Biological-Environmental Sciences (assoc. prof. RNDr. Petr Baldrian, Ph.D. – President of the Czech Science Foundation). The term in office of the members of the Presidium is four years, and a maximum of two consecutive terms is possible. GACR President is the governing body of the Czech Science Foundation.
The Presidium approves the publication of public tenders in research and development, and decides on the execution of contracts for the provision of funding, i.e. on the award of grants to scientific projects on the basis of the evaluation of the discipline committees and panels of the Czech Science Foundation. The Presidium also coordinates the activities of these advisory bodies, and appoints and removes their members.