What is Inria?

Inria is the French national research institute for digital science and technology. World-class research, technological innovation and entrepreneurial risk are its DNA. In 215 project teams, most of which are shared with major research universities, more than 3,900 researchers and engineers explore new paths, often in an interdisciplinary manner and in collaboration with industrial partners to meet ambitious challenges.

What are we proposing?

Are you a PhD holder and want to deepen your knowledge in one field, discover another, and enjoy an autonomous, stimulating, and partnership-based research environment? Inria proposes to host 75+ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF). Deadline is on 13 September 2023 so contact us as early as possible!

What are the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships?

MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships support the career development of researchers for enhancing their individual competence diversification in terms of skills at multidisciplinary level and intersectoral experience. The MSCA-PF grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as research, training and networking costs. This call to interest concerns the European Postdoctoral Fellowships (12 to 24 months of duration in Europe + optional placement in private sector in Europe of 6 months). More information: MSCA-PF

 What are the eligibility criteria?

• Candidates must hold a PhD at the call deadline (13 Sept. 2023) and have 8 years maximum of full-time research experience after the PhD.
• “Mobility rule”: candidates must NOT have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline (exceptions exist for European nationals).
• Candidates can be from any nationality.
• Although not an eligibility criterion, a good track record is recommended.
• An additional layer is at Inria institutional level regarding security procedures in recruitment, which must be approved by our Defence Security Officer.

What is needed to apply?

The MSCA PF programme requires candidates to write their own research project, in synergy with a supervisor at a European host institution. The proposal is a ten pages document describing the scientific idea, its expected impacts and implementation pathway, with an additional 5 pages for the candidate’s CV. At Inria, we provide extensive support to good quality candidates in the form of preliminary meetings, group training to better understand the programme and the grant proposal requirements, and one-to-one review sessions by specialised staff in the late stage.

I’m interested. What should I do?

1. Check our list of hosting offers, when a domain fits your profile or seems complimentary to your expertise, go to the research team webpage and look for more info.
2. Once you think you have an interesting research project idea that fits the domains described in one of our hosting offers, write it down in 4-5 lines and email the indicated contact persons (even better if you can add a CV or a link to your profile).
3. That’s it for now! Based on the info you provided we will get back to you regarding the next steps.

When should I do that? The earliest the better! If we had to give an indication, early Spring.

What’s in it for me?

Selected candidates will have access to privileged grant writing training sessions and one-to-one proposal review sessions in the last phase with our experienced European Officers. The sessions will take place on the following dates (all times CET): 1- Introduction to scheme, general considerations & invitation to discuss projects with supervisors, 4 April 10:00 – 12:30; 2- Grant writing guide (with exercises), 4 May 9:00-16:30; 3- Grant writing: details & advice on polishing, in-person, Lyon 29-30 June. Online events to present the offers will be proposed region-wise in February:  Asia (Japan – Taiwan – Singapore) Wed 15 Feb 2023, 10:30 CET; Africa, Middle East Wed 15 Feb 2023,  12:30 CET; Europe Wed 22 Feb 2023, 12:30 CET;  Americas  (Canada – Brazil - Silicon Valley – Chile)  Wed 22 Feb 18 :00 CET. Register here!

List of Inria’s 2023 MSCA-PF Hosting Offers (full text list available here)

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Rennes Centre

1. Rennes #1: avatars, virtual reality
2. Rennes #2: Rule Mining; Knowledge Bases; How-Provenance
3. Rennes #3: Machine Learning, Multi-armed Bandits, Learning to Rank
4. Rennes #4: Explainable AI, Pattern mining, Neural Network debugging, Counterfactual explanations, Post-hoc explanations
5. Rennes #5: brain-computer interfaces and neuro-feedback for rehabilitation
6. Rennes #6: Network Neutrality, Search Neutrality, CDNs, Monitoring, statistical tests
7. Rennes #7: deep learning accelerators, hardware security, fault attacks, countermeasures, fault tolerance
8. Rennes #8: Multimodal representation deep learning, multimodal adversarial attacks

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Sophia Centre

1. Sophia-Antipolis #1: Healthcare, personalized medicine, data analysis
2. Sophia-Antipolis #2: computational nanophotonics, metaphotonics, plasmonics
3. Sophia-Antipolis #3: integrated assessment modeling, Julia programming language, system dynamics models, open-source software
4. Sophia-Antipolis #4: dynamical systems, biological models, oscillations, synchronization, control, hybrid systems            
5. Sophia-Antipolis #5: optimal control, astrodynamics, formation flying, orbit transfer, collision avoidance, KAM theory             
6. Sophia-Antipolis #6: optimal control, dynamical systems, bacterial growth, cellular dynamics, resource allocation, turnpike
7. Sophia-Antipolis #7: Nonlinear control, optimal control, controllability, flatness, observers
8. Sophia-Antipolis #8: Neural engineering, Direct electrical stimulation, Electrophysiology, Evoked Potentials, Neurosurgery
9. Sophia-Antipolis #9: Machine Learning, Information Theory, Game Theory, decision-making
10. Sophia-Antipolis #10: Numerical probability analysis, stochastic analysis; Probabilistic methods for fluid mechanics
11. Sophia-Antipolis #11: Brain Computer Interfaces, P300 Speller, Classification techniques, Metric Learning, Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices, Electroencephalography
12. Sophia-Antipolis #12: Brain connectivity, Networks, Graphs, Diffusion MRI, Electroencephalography, Magnetoencephalography
13. Sophia-Antipolis #13: Statistical learning, probabilistic modelling, Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Security, Federated learning
14. Sophia-Antipolis #14: Federated Learning, Distributed Machine Learning, Inference Serving Systems, Caching networks
15. Sophia-Antipolis #15: Internet performance measurement, Quality of Service, Quality of Experience, future networks, 5G and beyond
16. Sophia-Antipolis #16: Semantic Slam, Localisation, Machine Learning
17. Sophia-Antipolis #17: Autonomous Driving, Situation awareness, Decision-making, Planning, Machine Learning
18. Sophia-Antipolis #18: Geometric modelling, geometry processing, AI for shape and scene analysis, remote sensing, urban modelling, computer vision, 3D object recognition
19. Sophia-Antipolis #19: cognitive vision systems, semantic interpretation

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Bordeaux Centre

1. Bordeaux #1: Multiphase compressible flow; multiscale; diffuse-interface method; discontinuous Galerkin method
2. Bordeaux #2: Cavitation; bubble; biomaterial; multiphase compressible flow; diffuse-interface method
3. Bordeaux #3: HPC, numerical simulation, finite element method, task parallelism, programming model, scheduling
4. Bordeaux #4: h-adaptation strategies and unified basis representation for surrogate and reduced order modelling of fluid flows with immersed/embedded parametrized geometries

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Grenoble and Lyon Centres

1. Grenoble-Lyon #1: Direct-to-Satellite Internet of Things              
2. Grenoble-Lyon #2: Multi-robot systems, online path planning, aerial robotics, autonomous exploration and mapping
3. Grenoble-Lyon #3: fast and accurate numerical algorithms, floating-point arithmetic, symbolic error analysis
4. Grenoble-Lyon #4: symbolic and algebraic computation, computer algebra, algebraic complexity
5. Grenoble-Lyon #5: Image bioinformatics; Deep learning; Light-sheet microscopy; Mouse brain development
6. Grenoble-Lyon #6: Computational evolution, genome architecture, robustness, evolvability, artificial life
7. Grenoble-Lyon #7: Numerical modelling and simulation, Natural risk mountain, HPC
8. Grenoble-Lyon #8: Data-driven modelling, uncertainties, calibration, data assimilation, reduced order models, substitution models, mountainous natural risk
9. Grenoble-Lyon #9: Statistics, Extreme-value analysis, Dimension reduction
10. Grenoble-Lyon #10: Bayesian inference, machine learning
11. Grenoble-Lyon #11: Bayesian inference, machine learning
12. Grenoble-Lyon #12: prion dynamics, Alzheimer's disease, synchronicity, strains, ODE, PDE
13. Grenoble-Lyon #13: Hemoglobin production, modelling              
14. Grenoble-Lyon #14: population dynamics, multi-scale models, PDE, ODE, gene regulatory network
15. Grenoble-Lyon #15: sensitivity analysis, kernel embedding, model order reduction, hypoelliptic Fokker-Planck equations
16. Grenoble-Lyon #16: Systems reconfiguration for resilience and cyber-security
17. Grenoble-Lyon #17: Self-adaptative resource management for data and computing centres, combining control and scheduling
18. Grenoble-Lyon #18: multi-agent, agent-based simulation, methodology, open data, science, reproducibility, semantic web
19. Grenoble-Lyon #19: cultural evolution, knowledge, belief, evolutionary epistemology, behaviour, society, communication
20. Grenoble-Lyon #20: Quantum information, causal structure, quantum computation, quantum control
21. Grenoble-Lyon #21: HPC, programming models, task and dataflow, component models
22. Grenoble-Lyon #22: Sparse matrix computations, sparse tensor computations, algorithms, graphs, hypergraphs
23. Grenoble-Lyon #23: Multi-criteria scheduling algorithms, resilience, edge-cloud platforms
24. Grenoble-Lyon #24: Expressive rendering, stylization, visualization, appearance edition, non photorealistic rendering
25. Grenoble-Lyon #25: Photorealistic rendering, materials, BRDF, phase function, light transport
26. Grenoble-Lyon #26: realtime rendering, LOD, GPU, antialiasing, filtering, Proland, Gigavoxels
27. Grenoble-Lyon #27: procedural texture, texture synthesis, vector texture, volumetric texture, animated texture
28. Grenoble-Lyon #28: Goal-Oriented Communications, Molecular communications
29. Grenoble-Lyon #29: privacy, data security, information law, user consent
30. Grenoble-Lyon #30: Sketch-based modelling, AI and Animation, Virtual Cinematography, Virtual Actors, Virtual Storytelling, Computer Theater, Computational Aesthetics
31. Grenoble-Lyon #31: embedded system, CPS, causality, accountability, explanation, certification
32. Siege #1: Towards a unified framework for pipelining information extraction from raw text to knowledge graphs

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Lille Centre

1. Lille #1: health, agriculture and ecology, sustainable development
2. Lille #2: distributed systems, multi-party interaction, structured interaction, formal methods, BIP, choreography
3. Lille #3: Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Techniques, Engineering of Interactive Systems
4. Lille #4: Dissipative PDE systems, high-order time-integration scheme, entropy dissipation, Numerical analysis, Simulation
5. Lille #5: Partial differential equations, Corrosion, Free boundary problem, Numerical analysis, Simulation

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Offers for 2023 at Inria Nancy Centre

1. Nancy #1: Gene regulatory networks, Single-cell dynamics, Probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian inference
2. Nancy #2: formal verification, model checking, theorem proving, distributed algorithms, TLA
3. Nancy #3: Formal methods, Model checking, Automata theory, security, opacity
4. Nancy #4: Multimodal speech, gesture generation, human-machine interaction, machine learning
5. Nancy #5: Multimodal speech, spoken language understanding, dialog manager, NLP, human-machine interaction
6. Nancy #6: DNN-based hate speech detection using speech signal and text data
7. Nancy #7: Machine learning, robotics, teleoperation, environmental awareness, adaptive behavior
8. Nancy #8: Machine learning, robotics, exoskeletons, adaptive behavior
9. Nancy #9: mathematical modelling, data assimilation, data analysis, brain activity
10. Nancy #10: distributed systems, collaborative systems, replication, trust, security, user studies