Kateřina Králová

is a Czech historian specializing in contemporary European history, memory studies, and post-conflict reconstruction. She is Full Professor at Charles University in Prague, where she leads the Research Centre for Memory Studies, and serves as a senior researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. She studied in Marburg and Prague, and has held research fellowships at leading institutions including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, the Humboldt Fellowship at HU Berlin, and the Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship at Yale University. In 2025, she received the Humboldt Alumni Award for her international academic leadership.
Her work focuses on memory politics, postwar transitions, and post-conflict societies. She plays a leading role in European academic cooperation as cluster lead in the 4EU+ Alliance, participant in the Horizon and HERA programmes, and educator within Erasmus Mundus consortia. Králová has been serving on advisory and academic boards (Fulbright Czech Republic, Charles University, Leverhulme Trust project “Times of Polycrisis in the UK and Europe”), evaluating faculty and PhD work (e.g., for Simon Fraser University, University of Vienna), and contributing to multiple editorial boards and scholarly networks. She is an elected member of the Learned Society Czech Republic and remains committed to mentoring early-career scholars internationally.

Mandate ERC Scientific Council: 1 Jan 2026  - 31 December 2029