Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Part of Horizon Europe, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the European Union’s flagship funding program for doctoral education and postdoctoral training of researchers. Through a highly competitive application process, the program supports excellent research and innovation collaborations, knowledge transfer, methodologies and content, and offers training, supervision and career guidance.

In the most recent call for postdoctoral fellowships, 8,039 candidates applied for 1,249 grants. Eight applicants applying from ICFO received MSCA fellowships, giving ICFO a success rate of 40% in this call, well above the 15.8% global rate. Two ICFO applicants received scores of 100%.

One incoming and six current ICFO postdoctoral researchers received the European Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out their projects at ICFO: Mir Alimuddin (will join the Quantum Information Theory group), Nicolas Linale (Optoelectronics group), Michal Gwizdala and Chunyu Li (Photon Harvesting in Plants and Biomolecules group) , Sarah Hirthe (Ultracold Quantum Gases group), Blazej Jaworowski (Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics group) and Lu Xia (CO₂ Mitigation Accelerated by Photons group). Federico Centrone, currently in the Quantum Information Theory group was awarded a Global Fellowship which will allow him to carry out his research outside the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe before returning to Europe.

We are very proud of ICFO’s exceptional results in this call and congratulate all the MSCA Fellows for your successful applications.