Nine Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships awarded at FSE

Description

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships, part of Horizon 2020, is a European funding scheme aimed at promoting researchers' mobility. It provides funding for two-year postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of any age, nationality and discipline .The Faculty of Science and Engineering has obtained a very good score in the 2020 call for proposals, doubling the European success rate.

Nine researchers have been selected by the excellence of their projects by the European Commission to come to Groningen to develop their postdoctoral research projects with a UG supervisor ():

• Oliver Lorscheid (Jaap Top and Jorge Perez) | Bernoulli Institute
• Qi Zhang (Ben Feringa) | Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
• Joanna Sudyka (Simon Verhulst) | GELIFES
• Richa Pandey (Beatriz Noheda and Monica Acuautla) | ZIAM
• Joana Sabino Pinto (Martine Maan) | GELIFES
• Kasia Tych (Giovanni Maglia) | GBB
• Meagan Beatty (Sijbren Otto) | Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
• Marijke Versteven (Jean Christophe Billeter) | GELIFES
• Elisa Palacino (Thomas la Cour Jansen) | ZIAM

The Individual Fellowships offer unique opportunities to Groningen senior researchers to attract promising fellows from all over the world, thus expanding their research capacity as well as building on their international network. This scheme will continue under Horizon Europe, the new European program for research and innovation 2021-2027, with the name of Postdoctoral Fellowships.