30 Experienced Researchers, Aberystwyth University, UK (2016)

ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERISTY, and other Welsh Universities, in collaboration with The Welsh Government, is looking for high-calibre Fellowship candidates to work with stellar researchers in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine) and relevant areas of Applied Social Science in Wales. The fellowships will be three years in duration and are part funded by the European Commission’s MSCA COFUND scheme. Applicants must have a PhD with three to five years postdoctoral experience, and should not have worked more than 12 months in the UK in the last three years. Up to 90 fellowships will be available across three calls, the first deadline for which is 1st March 2016.

Eligibility criteria

•Applicants must be Experienced Researchers (ERs) at the time of the deadline for submission of proposals i.e. that they are in possession of a doctoral degree (or have at least four years of full time equivalent research experience) plus approximately 3 – 5 years’ postdoctoral research experience.

•Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have resided of carried out their main activity (work, studies etc.) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the deadline for submission of proposals (short stays such as holidays are not taken into account).

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu