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H2020COFUND2020–2025

PSI-FELLOW-III-3i · International, Interdisciplinary & Intersectoral Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Paul Scherrer Institut

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-09-01 → 2025-08-31
EU contribution
€4,413,600
Participants
1
Scheme
MSCA-COFUND

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Results in brief

International, Interdisciplinary & Intersectoral Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Paul Scherrer Institut

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland’s largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences, excels in world-class research on condensed matter, materials sciences, energy, environment, and health. The 60 months PSI-Fellow postdoctoral program at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, see figure) is open to candidates from all over the world and is intended for experienced researchers after their PhD study to further their scientific training in the four broad areas of expertise at the PSI. In brief, the program strives for transparency in the selection process, merit-based evaluation of applicants by a reviewing panel of internal and international experts and client-friendliness towards applicant researchers. The application process including guidelines is outlined in detail on the PSI-Fellow-III-3i webpage (http://www.psi.ch/psi-fellow). The overall objective of the program is to boost the fellows’ careers by: - Providing an interdisciplinary research environment - Access to a unique combination of complex large-scale research facilities, leading to world-class research and high impact publications - Broad training opportunities in transferable skills and career development support through individual mentoring schemes - Access to a strong inter-sectoral and academic network - Access to a very inspiring international environment with staff from more than 60 nations This program trains the next generation of researchers specialized in tapping the full potential of large-scale research facilities and able to stimulate innovation in Europe's industries through forward-looking research and cutting-edge technology that is uniquely available at PSI. The free choice of research topics within the existing wide range of research themes of PSI fosters new ideas and facilitates innovation.

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Project objective

Large-scale research facilities are enabling cutting edge research and innovation in important domains such as materials science, health and energy. A number of such accelerator facilities is currently under construction in Europe and will become operational within the next five years. Thus, there is a growing need for highly qualified researchers trained in interdisciplinary research at such facilities and also an increasing demand from companies to use these facilities for developing and testing innovative products.The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), one of Europe’s leading research centres and particularly renowned for its accelerator facilities and long-standing industry collaborations, intends to establish a novel post-doctoral research programme with a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral exchange opportunities.PSI features a unique combination of excellent research facilities, including neutron, muon and light sources and (as of 2019) an X-ray free electron laser, which all exceed the possibilities of universities or industrial research centres. Motivated by the successful implementation of the H2020 COFUND programme PSI-FELLOW-II-3i, PSI now wants to further advance in post-doctoral training and education and proposes to set up PSI-FELLOW-III-3I. This 5-year programme will offer a total of 60 fellowships of two years duration each. The fellowships will be awarded in two calls for proposals with 30 fellowships in each call. In order to maximise the benefit for the Fellows and offer the widest possible range of research topics, PSI has teamed up with 46 partner organisations (34 research institutions and 12 companies). The unique setup of PSI-FELLOW-III-3i will allow using synergies with other leading research institutions for the training of the next generation of researchers specialised in tapping the full potential of large-scale research facilities, to transfer knowledge and stimulate innovation in Europe’s industries.

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Participants

  • PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT · VILLIGEN PSICoordinatorSwitzerland

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