22. Jun. 2021

ZSI invites potential applicants for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship on an ongoing basis

ZSI welcomes potential applicants to the various Horizon Europe MSCA Postdoctoral Fewllowship (PF) calls with ZSI as host institution. We aim to attract and support young talented post-doc researchers in the priority research areas of ZSI.

Candidates will be pre-selected based on their expression of interest (3 pages including proposed research title, list of research questions, short summary of background and state-of-art of research, short information on the proposed methodology), CV and a list of publications as well as a motivation letter. Promising candidates will be invited to meet their prospective supervisors and colleagues and to define with them the proposal framework.

Selected candidate fellows and supervisors will be guided throughout the whole application process. Those who receive funding from the EC's MSCA post-doctoral programme will be admitted to work together with us.

Application deadline: ongoing

Eliqibility requirements:

1. Applicants must have a PhD (not more than 8 years after their completed PhD)
2. Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have lived or worked in Austria for more than 12 months during the three years up to the closing date of the call (mobility rule)
3. Applicants have to choose ZSI as their host institutions
4. The proposals of the applicants have to be positioned in the key research areas of ZSI (please consult the thematic profiles of the three ZSI units "work and equal opportunities", "technology and knowledge" or "research policy and societal development").

Please contact Dr. Klaus Schuch, the scientific director of ZSI, for any questions on this initiative. If you need information on the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships themself (financial aspects, eligibility, etc.), please consult the MSCA programme and the corresponding guidelines.

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