Postdoctoral fellowships in Agro-Food, Nutrition, Health, Technology, Energy, Sustainability, Social Sciences and Humanities.

by Joaquin Capablo

23 Nov 2021

Campus Iberus is the Campus of International Excellence (CEI) of the Ebro Valley, which is the consortium of four universities in North-Eastern Spain: University of Zaragoza, Public University of Navarra, University of Lleida and University of La Rioja. The consortium aims at the smart specialization in 5 strategic research areas: Agri-food and Nutrition, Health Technology, Energy and Sustainability, Social and Territorial Development and Circular Bio-economy.

As part of the international strategy, the consortium coordinates talent attraction programmes for researchers of excellence under Marie Sklodowska-Curie cofund actions.

At the moment, the Iberus Experience application call for postdoctoral researchers is open until January 31st in any of these research fields:

  • Biomedicine; Cancer; Organ and system pathophysiology; Immunology, Infection and new therapies; Clinical Medicine; Biotechnology; Materials for biomedicine.
  • Food science and technology; Agriculture and Farming; Sustainable systems of plant production and protection.
  • Agriculture and Forestry; Forest pathology; Biodiversity; Earth and Water sciences; Climate and atmosphere; Environmental technology.
  • Chemistry; Chemical science and technology; Chemical engineering.
  • Energy; Materials for Energy and Environment.
  • Information and Communication technologies; Computational science and information technology; Microelectronics, Nanotechnology and Photonics.
  • Psychology; Educational science; Linguistics and languages.
  • History; Archeology; studies of the past.
  • Economy and its applications.

Employment terms: 3 years full-time (37,5 h/week) contracts. Gross salary of 37.828 EUR/year (researchers with family have a greater gross salary of 39.185 EUR/year). Research budget of 28.800 EUR for research costs, trainings and networking. Social health care included under the regime of Spanish Social Security System. Vacation of 22 working days/year, besides 3 days of personal duties. Maternity/paternity leave of 16 weeks.

The call is open for researchers from any nationality. Applicants must hold a PhD degree before the application deadline, and they should not have resided, worked or studied in Spain for more than 12 months in the previous 3 years. 

All the information about the Iberus Experience programme and the application process is described at www.iberusexperience.com.

Furthermore, 2-minutes videos from the available research lines are available in the following link:

Research lines videos – Iberus Experience