The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships) fund excellence in research and innovation by supporting researchers at all stages of their careers. They provide new knowledge and skills through cross-border mobility and exposure to different sectors and disciplines.

The MSCA-PF fellowships promote research excellence and are intended for PhD holders who wish to develop their research activities abroad, acquire new skills, advance their careers, and gain experience in other countries, disciplines, and non-academic sectors.

Interested researchers must apply together with a host organization, which can be a university, research institution, company, small or medium-sized enterprise, or another organization based in an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe program. All disciplines are eligible for these postdoctoral fellowships, including research areas covered by the Euratom Research and Training Program.

Submission deadline – September 10th 2025

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 Post doctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) in 2025.

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

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for talented 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 directly contact the Principal Investigators (via email) of the available projects, as soon as possible. The required documents are a Motivation Letter and a Detailed CV.

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

If you have any further questions, you are very welcome to contact NOVA Research Office (nova.research@unl.pt).

  • If you want to know more information about NOVA Research Units, please consult the link;
  • Please visit the link from European Commission about the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for additional information.
Title of the project Supervisor(s) Scientific Area
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/CEFITEC
Negative ion formation in electron transfer processes within clusters of biomolecules Paulo Limão Vieira PHY, CHE
Pulsed solar-pumped Ce:Nd:YAG lasers for efficient and rapid hydrogen extraction from aqueous ammonia under ambient condition without catalyst Dawei Liang PHY
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/CERIS
Optimized earthen plasters for eco-building Paulina Faria ENG, ENV, SOC
On the worst geometric imperfections for the design of steel structures Rodrigo Gonçalves ENG
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/CTS
Set-valued Estimation using CCGs to certify Neural Networks and Nonlinear Systems Daniel Silvestre ENG
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/LAQV
Lithium Ion Fluorescent Sensors and Materials for Clean and Sustainable Processes Artur J. Moro CHE
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/MARE-NOVA
CoastTrace: Tracing the Consequences of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands Carlos David Santos ENV, LIF
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/NOVA Math
Toeplitz operators on abstract Hardy spaces Oleksiy Karlovych MAT
Filling Gaps in Multiobjective and Derivative-Free Optimization Ana Luísa Custódio MAT
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/UCIBIO
NANOIMMUNOSERS Ricardo Franco CHE
Study of a novel host-internalization mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus Rita Sobral LIF
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/UNIDEMI
Assessing the sustainability of manufacturing as a service (MaaS) business model Radu Godina ENG, ECO
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CESEM
Portugal as a Global Axis for Studies in Musical Iconography Luzia Aurora Rocha SOC
Children’s behavior analysis in musical-theatre pieces designed for the very young Ana Isabel Pereira SOC
Music history and analysis (medieval and renaissance music) Elsa de Luca SOC
Plainchant and liturgical books Océane Boudeau SOC
The Tasks of Essayism in the Age of AI João Pedro Cachopo SOC
Liturgy, Memoria, and Performance: The Afterlife of Cistercian Saints in medieval Portuguese Manuscripts Kristin Hoefener SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CETAPS
AI Translation Literacy for Healthcare Settings Hanna Pieta SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CHAM
Transforming Territories: Archaeology, Heritage, and Community at the São Domingos Mine (T-ARCH São Domingos) Leonor Plácido de Medeiros SOC
TravelconT. The Crossroads of Contemporary Travel in Postcolonial Tourism Maria João Castro SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CICS.NOVA
iMET – Innovating social dialogue and collective bargaining toward artificial intelligence in the MET Industries Nuno Boavida SOC
Metallica – Promoting Employee Involvement In Dispute Prevention and Resolution in the Face of the Restructuring Taking Place Due to the Twin Transition in Europe’s Metal Sector Nuno Boavida SOC
Arts and activism Ricardo Campos SOC
Governance and organization of work environments challenged by digitalisation António Brandão Moniz SOC
Climate Change and New Exoduses: Understanding Climate Migrants in Portugal Bárbara Backstrom SOC
Urban SDI for Public Policies Observatory Rui Pedro Julião SOC
Transforming Food Systems: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Iva Pires SOC
Emotional Geographies and Gender in AI: Perceptions and Social Norms Eduarda Ferreira SOC
Gender studies and gender inequalities: Gender-based violence, domestic and intimate partner violence Dalila Cerejo SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IELT
Portuguese Dialogues Margarida Santos Alpalhão/Isabel Barros Dias SOC
Zoofictions and geopoetics: cartographies of animality Márcia Neves SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IEM
Using the past – the middle ages in the spotlight Alicia Miguélez SOC
Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery: Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th–16th Centuries Catarina Fernandes Barreira SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IFILNOVA
FILM AND DEATH Susana Viegas SOC
Managing medical scepticism in healthcare discourse Maria Grazia Rossi SOC
Reassessing Nietzsche’s Nachlass: New Perspectives Pietro Gori SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IHC
Constitutional roots of authoritarianism in interwar Europe Arturo Zoffman Rodriguez SOC
Peripheral Petromodernity. A Global Microhistory of the Sines Area Project (1971-1999) Ricardo Noronha SOC
RESONANCE: Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979) Hélia Marçal SOC
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IPRI-NOVA
European Union Studies Alice Cunha SOC
The impact of digitalization on political organizations Marco Lisi SOC
Uneven Development and Electoral Geography: Explaining Radical Right Support in Rural Europe João Cancela SOC
Domestic Sources of Regional Foreign Policy – A Comparative Analysis of Brazil, India and South Africa in comparative Carmen Fonseca SOC
Host Institution: NMS/CHRC
CARDIOTWINcare Jorge M. Mendes LIF
Host Institution: NMS/iNOVA4Health
Mechanisms Contributing to Human Oocyte Spindle Assembly and Female Infertility Ana Pimenta-Marques LIF
Uncovering Novel Regulatory Pathways of Microtubule Organization Underlying Female Fertility Ana Pimenta-Marques LIF
Metabolism and Fate Regulation: Uncovering New Pathways in Stem Cell Identity Catarina Homem LIF
Molecular mechanisms of melanin transfer and processing within keratinocytes Duarte Barral LIF
Toward a biomimetic in vitro model of age-related macular degeneration featuring drusen formation Miguel Seabra LIF
Unraveling the role of chloesteryl hemisters in lysosomal dysfunction and atherosclerosis progression Otilia Vieira LIF
Innovating diabetic retinopathy disease models: dissecting pathophysiology and pioneering therapeutic strategies Sandra Tenreiro LIF
Host Institution: NSL/CEDIS
AI in courts Vera Lúcia Raposo LIF
A normative perspective on the medical standard of care and patient safety in Artificial Intelligence medicine Vera Lúcia Raposo LIF
IP & Sustainability Monitor Giulia Priora LIF
War and Law – The Future of Conflict Felipe Pathé Duarte LIF
Host Institution: NOVA IMS/MaGIC
Unified Deep Learning and LLM Frameworks for Reasoning over Structured and Unstructured Data. Mauro Castelli ENG
Large Language Models for Health: Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support. Mauro Castelli ENG
Efficient Modular Architectures for Scalable Large Language Models Mauro Castelli ENG
Causality-Aware Interpretable AI for Decision-Making in High-Stakes Domains Mauro Castelli ENG
Neuroevolutionary Architectures for Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents Mauro Castelli ENG
Marketing & Technology (Smart services): Artificial Intelligence (AI’s) Risks and Benefits for consumer health and well-being Diego Costa Pinto SOC, ECO
Data Science and Decentralized Blockchain Systems: Shaping Sustainable Future Societies Ian Scott ENG
Semantic and Interpretable AI Leonardo Vanneschi ENG
Leveraging affective computing to understand user behaviour and emotional impact in human-computer interactionAffective computing Mijail Naranjo Zolotov ENG, SOC
INTEGRATE-TH — Integrated Data-Driven Tourism and Hospitality Intelligence Platform Nuno António ENG, SOC
Consumer behaviour change journey for technology Adoption Tiago Oliveira ENG, SOC
Smart Strategic Diffusion on Networks of Related Economic Activities Flávio Pinheiro SOC, ECO, ENG, MAT, PHY
Misinformation and Polarization: Between and Within Social Media Spaces Flávio Pinheiro SOC, ECO, ENG, MAT, PHY
The Moral Foundations of Political Discourse Flávio Pinheiro SOC, ECO, ENG, MAT, PHY
Coordination and Cooperation in Heterogeneous Networked Multiagent Systems Flávio Pinheiro SOC, ECO, ENG, MAT, PHY
Science of Science – Academic Performance Indicators Flávio Pinheiro SOC, ECO, ENG, MAT, PHY
Host Institution: ITQB NOVA/GREEN-IT
Decoding the mechanisms of microbiota inheritance in plants: from seeds to soil and beyond Juan Ignacio Vílchez LIF
Root Exudates as Drivers of Beneficial Microbiota Recruitment Under Stress Juan Ignacio Vílchez LIF
Host Institution: ITQB NOVA/MOSTMICRO
Super-Bug within: decoding host-persister interaction spatiotemporal dynamics Pedro M. Pereira 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

NOVA FCT : Research Support Office (preaward@fct.unl.pt)
Nova SBE: Research & Innovation Funding (research.innov.funding@novasbe.pt)
NOVA IMS: MagIC (magic@novaims.unl.pt)
NOVA FCSH: Research Support Office (research@fcsh.unl.pt)
NOVA Medical School: Pre-Award Office (research.preaward@nms.unl.pt)
NOVA School of Law: CEDIS (cedis@novalaw.unl.pt)
ITQB NOVA: ITQB Funding (itqb.funding@itqb.unl.pt)
IHMT: GHTM (ghtm@ihmt.unl.pt)
ENSP NOVA: GAIDI office (gaidi@ensp.unl.pt)
NIMSB:  nimsb@unl.pt