IMDEA Materials Institute is looking for post-doctoral researchers willing to apply for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) in call 2021. IMDEA Materials Institute has a long track record of hosting MSCA fellows and has obtained outstanding success rates in recent calls of MSCA PF.

Interested candidates (if successful) will work under the supervision of Prof. Carlos González, professor of Materials Science at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and head of the Structural Composites Group at IMDEA Materials Institute. The candidate will work in smart manufacturing of structural composites by using Artificial Intelligence as core technology coupled with advanced virtual processing. The group at IMDEA Materials is involved, among others in research lines related with multiscale virtual processing (VP) and virtual testing (VT) methods for structural composites. In addition, IMDEA Materials Institute has state-of-the-art facilities to manufacture composites (injection, infusion, compression moulding, additive manufacturing,…), multi-scale mechanical characterization (experimental micromechanics and X-ray tomography) so any modelling in the area is strongly connected with detailed experimental work for correlation.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:

Interested candidates please send your resume and a brief outline of the proposed research project (2 pages maximum) via email to Prof. Carlos González (carlosdaniel.gonzalez@imdea.org) before July 15th 2021.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MSCA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS:

The purpose of the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD, wishing to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. The grant typically covers two years' salary, research costs and overheads for the host institution.

The mobility rule requires that the researcher has not resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organization (Spain, in the case of IMDEA Materials Institute) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline (expected to be October 12th 2021 for call 2021). Moreover, only candidates with research experience up to 8 years postdoc from the date the PhD degree was granted are eligible (with possible exceptions).

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MSCA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS CALL 2021 AND ELIGIBILITY:

Check the call website at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-search