
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 |
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Negative ion formation in electron transfer processes within clusters of biomolecules |
Paulo Limão Vieira |
SOC |
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 |
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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 |
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Set-valued Estimation using CCGs to certify Neural Networks and Nonlinear Systems |
Daniel Silvestre |
ENG |
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/LAQV |
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Lithium Ion Fluorescent Sensors and Materials for Clean and Sustainable Processes |
Artur J. Moro |
CHE |
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/MARE-NOVA |
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CoastTrace: Tracing the Consequences of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands |
Carlos David Santos |
ENV, LIF |
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/NOVA Math |
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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 |
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NANOIMMUNOSERS |
Ricardo Franco |
CHE |
Study of a novel host-internalization mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus |
Rita Sobral |
LIF |
Host Institution: NOVA FCT/UNIDEMI |
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Assessing the sustainability of manufacturing as a service (MaaS) business model |
Rady Godina |
ENG, ECO |
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CESEM |
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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 |
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AI Translation Literacy for Healthcare Settings |
Hanna Pieta |
SOC |
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/CHAM |
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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 |
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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 |
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IELT |
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Portuguese Dialogues |
Margarida Santos Alpalhão/Isabel Barros Dias |
SOC |
Zoofictions and geopoetics: cartographies of animality |
Márcia Neves |
SOC |
Host Institution: NOVA FCSH/IEM |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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CARDIOTWINcare |
Jorge M. Mendes |
LIF |
Host Institution: NMS/iNOVA4Health |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Super-Bug within: decoding host-persister interaction spatiotemporal dynamics |
Pedro M. Pereira |
LIF |