EUROPE: 12 PhD positions in the MSCA Doctoral Network LongTREC

Eligible candidates must hold or be in the process of gaining a master’s degree relevant to the chosen position (including biology, medicine, biochemistry, bioinformatics, or a related discipline, depending on each PhD project) by June 2023 or an equivalent experience, or must hold an official university qualification from a country of the European Higher Education Area with a minimum of 300 ECTs of official university studies.

Every project might require specific requirements or skills. To ensure candidates meet these criteria, we encourage to check our PhD positions for specific requirements on our career website.

• 3-year full-time employment contract (salary depends on the country of the recruitment considering both the local and MSCA regulations for Early Stage Researchers and their family status at the time of the recruitment).

• Enrolment in a PhD program.

• Shared research and innovative multidisciplinary and multisectoral training by experts and experienced trainers from two sectors (academia and industry).

• A structured training programme consisting of soft skill courses, targeted workshops, retreats, social events and networking.

• Secondments at other institutions within the LONGTREC consortium.

• Gaining experience abroad.

• Opportunities for participation in national and international meetings.

• Enlarged professional network and improved future scientific career perspective in academia and the private sector.

For further information on the LONGTREC MSCA-DN and the application process, please visit https://longtrec.eu/.

We welcome applications from PhD candidates from any country fulfilling the following criteria:

• Eligible candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host institution for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment by the host institution (i.e. the starting date indicated in the employment contract/equivalent direct contract). This is applicable to all jobs except for the PhD position 2 in which the mobility criteria is not required.
• Eligible candidates shall at the date of recruitment by the host institution not have been awarded a doctoral degree. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible. 
• Eligible candidates must hold or be in the process of gaining a master’s degree relevant for the chosen position (including biology, medicine, biochemistry, bioinformatics or a related discipline, depending on each PhD project) by June 2023 or an equivalent experience, or must hold an official university qualification from a country of the European Higher Education Area with a minimum of 300 ECTs of official university studies.
• In all cases, employment will be conditioned to acceptance by the Doctoral school of the associated PhD awarding institution.

Successful candidates must have a high level of proficiency in written and spoken English, which will be assessed with the motivation letter and the interview, respectively.

The application will be done through an online application platform to be found on the LONGTREC website: https://longtrec.eu/ and/or directly to our career site careeer.longtrec.eu 

Applications must be in English. Each applicant may apply to a maximum of three individual research projects.

Candidates must apply through our career site in which they will be able to upload the following documents (in pdf):

• a CV (including publications, if any),
• a motivation letter,
• 2 reference letters (please, combine in 1 pdf both reference letters),
• Copies of Bachelor's and Master's degree certificates. Candidates should include the transcripts in English of academic records for the studies that make them eligible for a doctoral program. If these studies have been completed by the deadline for applications, the total number of credits for the degree and the credits awarded must also appear.

Eligible applications will be ranked on the basis of CVs and merits by a selection committee: up to 30 points for the CV, up to 15 points for the motivation letter, and up to 5 points for the two reference letters.

The 3 best candidates for each position will be invited to a recruitment workshop in February 2023 (date to be confirmed) where the final candidates will be selected.

Applicants with a positive evaluation but not selected will be included on a reserve list to cover eventual future positions and might be contacted at a later stage.

Timeline

• Application deadline: 16 January 2023
• Announcement of preselection results and call for interviews: 1 February 2023
• Recruitment workshop: Short-listed candidates will be interviewed at the end of February 2023 (date to be confirmed). To give same opportunities to all candidates, we anticipate that workshop and interviews will be run in a virtual format. Full details regarding the interview process will be sent to invited candidates during the arrangement of interviews.
• Communication of the final results: 1 April 2023
• Hiring process: between June and September 2023 (depending on end of Master’s degree)
• Enrolment on Doctoral school deadline: October 2023