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MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS (MSCA-PF) 2021

Submission deadline - 12 October 2021

NOVA University Lisbon is keen to host potential candidates to work on projects in the different scientific areas approached by our Research Units. NOVA is seeking to attract high quality postdoctoral researchers for joint applications to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) in 2021.

If you are interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) in September 2021 and you are interested to have NOVA in Portugal, as your host institution, then we would be happy to hear from you.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for high quality candidates with scientific background within the research areas addressed at NOVA. We expect you to have an excellent research track record and be enthusiastic, academically curious and open minded towards the diversity of research approaches.

All interested applicants are encouraged to contact directly the Principal Investigators of the available projects, as soon as possible. The required documents are a Motivation Letter and a Detailed CV. 

For more information about the available projects in different scientific areas, including a list of the contact points of the various Host Institutions, please consult the information on the table below.

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact NOVA Research Office for further information.

Título do Projeto / Project Title Supervisor(es) / Supervisor(s)

Área Científica/

Scientific Area

Host Institution: FCT NOVA | CEFITEC
Low energy electron driven reactions for biological applications Filipe F. Silva CHE/PHY
Host Institution: FCT NOVA | CENIMAT  
Self-powered Sweat Sensor: Healthcare Monitoring Patch Suman Nandy CHE/LIF/ENG
To be developed Suman Nandy CHE/LIF/ENG
Ultra-thin and conformable sensory membrane for smart surfaces  Joana V. Pinto ENG/PHY/LIF
Bacterial cellulose Dressings for biomedical applications  Pedro M. Almeida PHY
Photo-induced memristive devices for neuromorphic computing Asal Kiazadeh ENG
Supreme-IT: Sustainable Printed Memristors by Interface Tuning  Jonas Deuermeier CHE
 
Boosting photocatalytic water splitting activity through facet surface potential engineering  Jonas Deuermeier CHE
Engineering multifunctional magnetic scaffolds for cancer theranostics application Paula Soares ENG
 
Soft electronics using composites with embedded oxide nanostructures Pedro Barquinha ENG
Host Institution: FCT NOVA | CENSE  
TrUST - Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability Transition Paula Antunes SOC
Host Institution: FCT NOVA | LAQV  
CO2 Capture and Storage using Naturally Occurring H2O Ices Fernando Cruz CHE/ENV
Dynamic Heterotopic Receptors for Sequence Specific Peptide Recognition Nuno Basílio CHE
Photoresponsive Molecular Machines for Functional Applications Nuno Basílio CHE
Multifunctional Amphiphiles for Drug and Gene-Delivery Applications Nuno Basílio CHE
Supported metal nanoparticles and heterogenized complexes for reactions of industrial importance  Sónia Carabineiro CHE
Plastic waste recycling and valorization: PET chemical transformation for biogas production Inês Matos ENV
Sustainable approaches for Bioremediation of aquatic environments using ionic systems Luís C. Branco CHE
Fighting bacterial resistance by ionic liquids and organic salts containing active pharmaceutical ingredients (OSIL-APIs) Zeljko Petrovski CHE
Host Institution: FCT NOVA | LIBPhys  
To be developed Pedro Amaro  PHY
Host Institution: FCT NOVA | UCIBIO  
NANOIMMUNOSERS Ricardo Franco CHE
Unveiling the complexity of cell biology and underlying disregulation of diseases by deciphering multi-omics data Ana R. Grosso
 

LIF

Optical electronic nose for medical diagnostics Cecília Roque LIF/ENG
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | CESEM  
Contemporary music between theory and practice Isabel Pires SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | CHAM  
RIC – Architecture and Urbanism Sofia Aleixo SOC
FROM DECAYED EMPIRES TO TRADING NATIONS: THE CULTURE OF COMMERCE AND THE FRAMEWORK OF CITIZENSHIP IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 1670s-1820s Pablo S. León
 
SOC
THE MIXED CONSTITUTION IDEAL AND THE LANGUAGE OF CITIZENSHIP IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL IN COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Pablo S. León SOC
To be developed Carla Vieira SOC
VESTE _ Dressing the Court: Costume, Gender and Identity(ies) Carla A. Pinto SOC
Art, Travel, Tourism. Post-Colonial Studies Maria J. Castro SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | CICS.NOVA  
CIVITAS-GOV João Seixas SOC
Inclusion or discrimination? from the analysis of the school results to the strategies for the success of the students with immigrant origin Sílvia Almeida SOC
YOUTH OFFENDING IN THE JUVENILE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN PORTUGAL (YO&JUST) Maria J. Leote SOC
ARTCITIZENSHIP - YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE ARTS OF CITIZENSHIP: ACTIVISM, PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CREATIVE PRACTICES Ricardo Campos SOC
SEA-ALF: Fishing for ocean literacies that nourish Alison L. Nielson SOC
Artificial Intelligence - Implications on work, employment and industrial relations in the EU Nuno Boavida SOC
Social integration processes of unaccompanied youth asylum seekers and refugees Bárbara Bäckström SOC
Food Insecurity during COVID-19 Pandemic Iva Pires SOC
NATURE4HEALTH Iva Pires SOC
Governance and organization of work environments challenged by digitalization António Moniz SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | CLUNL  
EXPRIMI - Preliminary corpus exploitation for inclusive task-based host language teaching Matilde Gonçalves SOC
EXPRIMI - Preliminary corpus exploitation for inclusive task-based host language teaching Raquel Amaro SOC
EXPRIMI - Preliminary corpus exploitation for inclusive task-based host language teaching Susana Correia SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | CRIA  
The project Bone Matters / Matérias Ósseas Francisca A. Cardoso SOC
To be developed Luís Silva SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | ICNOVA  
To be developed Paulo N. Vicente SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | IFILNOVA  
Present Democracy for Future Generations André S. Campos SOC
Arguing for sustainability Chrysi Rapanta SOC
1.Refugee Integration in Portugal
2.Post-COVID EMU
Gabriele DeAngelis  

Argumentation for health: Framing strategies to foster shared decision making in medical encounters

Maria Grazia Rossi SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | IHC  
“It is the Duty of All”: The Organization of African Unity and the Solidarity towards the Struggle for Independence of Portuguese Colonies (1963-1975) Aurora A. Santos SOC
Digital Humanities and Historical Research Daniel Alves SOC
Entangled Iberian censorship: practice and everyday life of press censorship during the New State (1933-1974) and Francoism (1939-1975) Rita Luís SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH | IPRI  
Securing Water and Climate Resilience in the Amazon River Basin Region: Analyzing Environmental Problem-Shifting Joana C. Pereira SOC
Host Institution: NMS | iNOVA4Health  
Metabolic control of Stem Cell fate: Epigenetic regulation by Acetyl-CoA levels. Catarina Homem LIF
Bridging polyphenol intake, neuroinflammation and Parkinson’s disease: from blood to the brain Claúdia N. Santos & Inês Figueira LIF
Natural gene editing in B cells: new approaches to lingering and emerging problems Vasco M. Barreto LIF
Host Institution: NMS | Toxomics  
Cancer Lipid Hydrogel João Conde LIF
Host Institution: NOVA Law | CEDIS  
To be developed Francisco Coutinho SOC
Host Institution: NOVA IMS | MagIC  
Harp - Heating Appliances Retrofit Planning Tiago Oliveira ENG/SOC
Host Institution: ITQB NOVA | MOSTMICRO  
Depolymerization of Waste Polymers Using Cheap Metal Catalysts Beatriz Royo CHE
Earth–abundant Metal Catalysts for CO2 Reduction: Electro- and Photocatalytic Processes Beatriz Royo
 
CHE
Extracellular electron transfer mechanisms: the way Aeromonas hydrophila do it! Catarina Paquete LIF
Establishing transition metal homeostasis at the gut microbiome-host interface Sarela Garcia-Santamarina LIF
Meso-Scale, Large-Complexity Simulations of Antimicrobial Peptide Action Manuel Melo CHE
The Life electric: structural and functional characterization of cytochromes that enable bacteria to survive by producing electricity Ricardo O. Louro CHE/LIF
Structural and functional characterization of FhuF, a siderophore interacting protein of the structurally uncharacterized family of ferric siderophore reductases Ricardo O. Louro CHE/LIF
The Super-Bug inside job: exploring the interaction between facultative intracelular bacterial pathogens and mammalian host cells Pedro M. Pereira LIF
Host Institution: ITQB NOVA | GREEN-IT  
Soil microbiome bioengineering to anticipate stress responses in plants Juan Ignacio Vilchez LIF
Host Institution: ENSP | CHRC  
European Partnership under Horizon Europe - Partnership for the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals (PARC) Susana Viegas LIF/ENV
To be developed  Carla Nunes e Alexandre Abrantes LIF

LEGEND:     
CHE    Chemistry
ENG    Information Science and Engineering
ENV    Environmental and Geosciences
LIF    Life Sciences
MAT    Mathematics
PHY    Physics
SOC    Social Sciences and Humanities

MARIE-CURIE CONTACT POINTS of the HOST Institutions: 

FCT NOVA | gab.ad.iris@fct.unl.pt 
NOVA FCSH | research@fcsh.unl.pt
NOVA LAW  | cedis@fd.unl.pt
NMS  | rfo.cedoc@nms.unl.pt
NOVA IMS | rmartins@novaims.unl.pt
ITQB NOVA | itqb.funding@itqb.unl.pt
ENSP  | msofia@ensp.unl.pt