Organisation / Company: University of Genoa
Department: Department of Physics
Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Description: Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
The University of Genoa (UNIGE), located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality with an excellent track record to apply for the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.
Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is part of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.
The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs.
The research projects will have a duration of 2 or 3 years.
Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.
The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@UniGe. Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.
The masterclass will take place in May/June 2025. Research Activity: My ongoing research activity at the Physics Department deals mainly with three topics: 1) Metal-based (Titanium, Niobium, Tantalum, and their alloys) biomaterials development for osteointegration improvement and antimicrobial capabilities; 2) Macromolecule/surface interaction studies for adsorption reduction and smart packaging development; 3) DNA-based biosensors development, with particular interests in low Limit of Detection improvement for disease biomarkers.
Research Group: The Physics Department of Genoa has been selected as one of the 180 best Departments of State Universities (in the 2018-2022 period) with strong financial support.
The Biophysics research group is composed of 5 professors, 2 researchers, 1 technician, and several postdoctoral/Ph.D.
students, with cultural backgrounds mainly in physics but also in engineering, material science, and biology.
In the laboratory, we have Atomic Force Microscopy (in particular a JPK Nanowizard IV with QI working mode, suitable for studies on cells/soft materials), confocal fluorescence equipped with Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) (with the possibility of correlation with the JPK AFM), spectrofluorimetry, spectrophotometry, dynamic light scattering.
We also have full access to X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, Spectroscopic ellipsometry, micro Raman, and availability of Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Fourier-Transform Infra-Red spectroscopy.
Eligibility Criteria: For the MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.
More info on MSCA PF is available at the following link:
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