Zuzana Havránková and Dino Numerato were appointed professors
On June 16, 2025, the Karolinum Great Hall of Charles University became the scene of the ceremonial handing over of appointment decrees to new professors. They were appointed by the President of the Czech Republic on the proposal of the scientific and artistic councils of universities. A total of 87 personalities received the decrees from the hands of the President Petr Pavel and Mikuláš Bek, the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.
The Faculty of Social Sciences has two new professors:
- prof. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (IES FSV UK) in the field of Economic Theory
- prof. PhDr. Dino Numerato, Ph.D. (ISS FSV UK) in the field of Sociology
Prof. Zuzana Havránková is based at the Institute of Economic Studies at FSV UK, where she focuses on labor economics, international economics, and meta-research. According to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database, she consistently ranks among the top 100 female economists worldwide. She has completed research stays at institutions such as the University of Helsinki and the University of California, Berkeley. In November of last year, she successfully delivered her inaugural professorial lecture, becoming the youngest academic in the history of Charles University to do so. In May 2025, she was also appointed an affiliate researcher at the prestigious METRICS (Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University), which is dedicated to improving the quality of meta-analyses through the study of publication bias and related research across scientific disciplines. METRICS affiliates include only the most respected experts in the field of meta-analysis—currently 74 scholars from leading research institutions around the world.
Listen to the episode of the faculty podcast De Facto on the research of Prof. Zuzana Havránková:
Prof. Dino Numerato is based at the Institute of Sociological Studies at FSV UK, where he served as Head of the Department of Sociology from 2016 to 2019. His research focuses on the sociology of health, illness, medicine, and sport, as well as social theory and migration. Throughout his academic career, he has been awarded prestigious Marie Curie fellowships—first as an Early Career Fellow at La Sapienza University in Rome, and later as an Experienced Research Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan and Loughborough University in the UK. From 2021 to 2024, he served as the national coordinator of the project Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-Trust), which explored the issue of vaccine hesitancy. He is currently the principal investigator at Charles University for the National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI).
Listen to the De Facto podcast episode on the research of Prof. Dino Numerato:
