The Jagiellonian University Senate adopted Recruitment rules for the 2023/2024 academic year regarding the rules of recruitment to Doctoral Schools in the academic year 2023/2024.
We are happy to announce that on May, 30th the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences will be opening the registration that will be held via the OAS website - the Jagiellonian University Online Application System (irk.uj.edu.pl).
Recruitment schedule for the PhD Programme in Biology:
- Registration IRK: 01.06.2023-21.06.2023
- Interviews: 03-07.07.2023
- Results: 12.07.2023
- Entries to the Doctoral School: 13.07-28.07.2023
- Entries to the Doctoral School (reserve list): 31.07.2023
Formal requirements for entering the admission procedure
Candidates eligible for admission to the PhD Programme in Biology at the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences are the holders of Magister, Magister inżynier, or equivalent professional title awarded in the field of exact and natural sciences.
In exceptional cases, given the outstanding quality of candidate's academic achievements, a person referred to in Article 186 of the Act who does not hold a Magister title, who has completed the undergraduate (first-cycle) programme, or who has completed the third year of long-cycle graduate programme but holds the status of student of a programme in the field indicated above or has graduated from a programme in that field, may also apply for admission to the programme.
In order to confirm the fulfilment of the condition referred to in Article 186, section 2 of the Act, the candidate shall be obliged to submit:
two opinions confirming the high quality of the research work carried out and the high level of advancement of such work, issued by academic tutors holding at least the postdoctoral degree or being employees of a foreign university or scientific institution who have significant achievements in scientific issues related to the programme.
Whether the candidate meets the condition referred to in Article 186 section 2 of the Act shall be decided by the director in consultation with the chair of the committee.
Qualification criteria
The order of the candidates on the ranking list shall be determined by their final numerical result of the qualification based on the result of the interview (0-100 points).
Admission procedure
When registering in the system, the candidates for the programme at the doctoral school shall indicate a research topic of interest to them. Research topicsshall be posted on the doctoral school website at least two weeks before the start of enrolment.
The interview shall be conducted in English. During the interview, candidates shall give a short oral presentation of research plans for their doctoral thesis, together with the reasons for the selection of the topics. Then they shall answer enrolment committee questions on the topic of the doctoral thesis and related issues. In the next part of the interview, they shall be given a summary of the publication to read and will have to discuss it. The knowledge of the planned research scope and the ability to use English shall be primarly assessed.
The candidate's qualification result for the entire qualification procedure shall be the number of points obtained during the interview.
Final result calculation
The final result of the enrolment procedure W shall be a number from 0 to 100 determined for all candidates as the number of points obtained during the interview.
Limits of places available in the 2023/2024 academic year:
- Institute of Botany - 2
- Institute of Environmental Sciences - 5
- Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research - 4
List of topics offered in 2023
IB – 1: Adaptations of lichens to excessive nitrogen compounds in the environment. (Institute of Botany)
IB – 2: Influence of environmental conditions on the profile of pollen proteins in selected allergenic vascular plant species. (Institute of Botany)
IB – 3: Differentiation of wild plant consumption patterns in various ethnic groups in Indonesia. (Institute of Botany)
IB – 4: Ethnobotanical survey of wild plants used by Indonesians in selected provinces of central Sumatra. (Institute of Botany)
IES – 6: The use of aquatic microorganisms to remove microplastics from aquatic environment. Opportunities and limitations. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES - 7: Are organisms redundant at all? - a phenotypic plasticity perspective at the clonal level. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 8: Microbial cell quiescence: from cell to population on the example of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 9: Molecular mechanism of Wolbachia-conferred antiviral protection. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 10: Investigating interspecific and intraspecific diversity, distribution, and transmission of endoparasites in sympatric wild carnivores. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 11: Interplay between the dosage compensation and the dominance phenomenon. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 12: Evolution of the optimal level of gene expression. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 13: Microgreens (Plant Microbial Interaction). (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 14: Science communication in environmental governance: a new paradigm for addressing plastic reduction. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 15: The importance of nutrient content and microbiological properties of forest soils for temperature sensitivity. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 16: The ecological dynamics of microbiota in Arctic insect communities. (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IES – 17: Oxidative stress effects on life history traits in insects.(Institute of Environmental Sciences)
IZBR – 18: Small worlds: uncovering local and medium scale invertebrate diversity and phylogeography with environmental DNA (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)
IZBR – 19: PFAS exposure and premature ovarian insufficiency: molecular mechanism. (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)
IZBR – 20: Neuronal mechanisms of fear and anxiety control - the role of nucleus incertus to ventral hippocampus pathway in pattern separation, anxiety and contextual fear memory. (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)
IZBR – 21: Neurophysiological, anatomical and behavioural analysis of the reciprocal connection between Lateral Habenula and Nucleus Incertus: implications for aversion processing, stress response and adaptive behaviours. (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)
IZBR – 22: Neural basis of circadian changes in animal motivation. (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)
IZBR – 23: The variability of insects microbiome. (Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research)