UJA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowships Hosting Offer 2020 (ENVIRONMENT AND GEOSCIENCES)

Description of Hosting Institution (UJA – Spain)

Jaén University (UJA) was created in 1993 and is in the Top 50 of the world’s best young universities according to THE (Times Higher Education). This ranking analyzes aspects such as teaching, research work, the university’s international outreach, or integration into industry. Besides, the UJA has received the distinction of Campus of International Excellence in the fields of Agrifood (CEIA3) and Climate Change (CamBio), plus it also leads the Andalusian CEI project on historical heritage PatrimoniUN10.

Jaén University has five faculties (Social and Legal Sciences; Humanities and Education Sciences; Health Sciences; Experimental Sciences and Social Work) and two higher polytechnic schools for engineering (Linares and Jaén). In turn, these centers are organized into 35 departments. It also has three Postgraduate educational centers (Doctorate School, Advanced Study Center in Modern Languages and Postgraduate Study Center).

In regards to its research, there are several specialized centers at Jaén University (https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise). Besides, the full picture of the over 100 UJA groups covers the following research fields of expertise: Agrifood (AGR); Biology (BIO); Health (CTS); Social Sciences, Business, Law (SEJ); Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (FQM); Humanities (HUM); Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (RNM); Information and Communications Technology (TIC); and Engineering Production Technology (TEP).

As far the UJA hosting offer is concerned, Prof. LUIS MIGUEL NIETO ALBERT (lmnieto@ujaen.es) would be willing to host post-doctoral researchers that are eventually funded through the MSCA-IF 2020 call for applications to be part of the following research team: https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise/rnm-200-analysis-basins-and-environmental-geology

Project description

The 'Analysis of Basins and Environmental Geology' research group carries out its activity in the field of stratigraphy, sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and basin analysis. Recently, this research group is developed a topic related with the valuing and assessing the geodiversity and geological heritage and their applications to natural protected areas management and the sustainable land use. The results of its research are widely applicable in fields as important as groundwater, energy resources, oil, gas, coal or industrial minerals, land use, or management of natural resources.

Within the framework of the present Expression of Interest, two main research lines are offered by Prof. Nieto to prospective MSCA-IF candidates:

1. Analysis of geochemical and sedimentological proxies that denote environmental changes of different magnitude from Jurassic and / or Cretaceous materials. 
2. Study of the geodiversity of a territory, its assessment, its usefulness as an indicator of environmental change and the applicability of its knowledge in the sustainable management of the territory.

Application procedure

CV, Motivation letter and Summary of project proposal (250 words) should be sent by the offer deadline to ofipi@ujaen.es. Further information regarding the application requirements can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/msca-if-2020 & https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en. Please, take into account that interested candidates should comply with the MSCA-IF programme mobility rule before applying: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-msca_en.pdf.