UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Marine Geosciences. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor  Andreia Plaza-Faverola. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Marine Geosciences as presented by Associate Professor Plaza-Faverola:

My research is within the topic of fluid dynamics in continental margins. I work in a multidisciplinary environment to understand quantitatively the processes that control natural seafloor seepage phenomena. I am particularly interested in how tectonic and glacial stress affects sedimentary faults and fractures and the transport of sub-seabed carbon. With a team of PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows and project collaborators we are developing field constrained geomodels of fluid migration systems in multiple continental margin settings. These geomodels can be used for field constrained numerical simulations of complex geomechanical, hydrological and biochemical interactions in the shallow subsurface. We have collected a range of high-resolution 3D seismic and ocean bottom seismic data, in-situ pressure and temperature data, as well as sedimentological data from high latitude margins. These data are available and ideal for further studies on anisotropy, fracture permeability, fracture criteria, fluid discharges and carbon transport modes, to mention some of the topics that I am most interested in. With our integrated data analyses, we contribute to climate research, as well as with sub-seabed characterizations, important for offshore developments and sub-marine hazard assessments. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to andreia.a.faverola@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.