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 Biology, Mycology and Bioprospecting. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor  Teppo Rämä. 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 Biology and Mycology as presented by Associate Professor Rämä:

I do research on biosystematics, ecology and bioprospecting of marine fungi as part of the Center for new antibacterial strategies (https://uit.no/research/cans). The postdoc is expected to contribute to a research project studying temperature adaptation and secondary metabolism of fungi in the strictly marine order Lulworthiales. Working tasks include doing comparative genomics and transcriptomics/proteomics analyses on data retrieved from culturing experiments of multiple isolates from tropical, temperate, and Arctic waters.

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