Postdoctoral Fellowships
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) aim to support the career development and training of researchers in all scientific disciplines through international and intersectoral mobility.
The fellows carry out their own research project in collaboration with a host institution, which is indicated at the time of their application. Researchers of all ages, nationalities and scientific disciplines can apply.
Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) provide an extremely enriching experience, that enhance the career perspectives for researchers by developing new scientific competences and gaining international and collaborative research experience.
Complutense as a Host Institution
Complutense
The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) is a public research university located in Madrid, and one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in 1499).
The UCM enrols over 80,000 students, almost 6,000 faculties and more than 3,000 administration and service staff and consistently ranks as one of the top universities in Spain.
Research Groups
There are more than 200 UCM research groups interested in hosting researchers through MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships.
They are looking for ambitious, creative and scientifically curious researchers who meet the MSCA-PF eligibility criteria.
If you are ready to take the next step in your research career look into our university's host offers.
European Office
The Complutense University of Madrid as host institution, through a dedicated European Research Office, supports MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship candidates both in the application process and in managing the grant.
We offer, among other specific support services, an in-depth review of the proposal by experienced advisors: internal deadline to send the draft proposal to office is August 31, 2021.
Expressions of Interest
The next section include information about several UCM supervisors that have expressed their interests to host MSCA experienced researchers in their research group. If you are interested in one of them, you should contact the corresponding Scientific Supervisor directly.
The web search application will help you find the offer that best suits your interests. Just enable and use the filters (click on the filter icon). You can search by faculty, research area, and research topic to be proposed / description of the research group (by means of keywords). Visit the links provided in the search results (table below) to display further information.
Some offers the supervisors ask for particular documents. If you are required to submit a project proposal or you do not know exactly what send to present your candidature, you can use our template 'One Page Proposal'.
The research activity of the ArTeCS group covers a wide range of subjects related with high performance computing, computer architecture and system design. Furthermore, the ArTeCS group is one of the groups in UCM graded as “Excellent” by an evaluation commissioned by the State Research Agency.
Two of the most relevant researching lines of the group is the use of Specialized Arithmetic and Approximate Computing as well as Multimedia, both critical for performing visual recognition in real time. Furthermore, recently in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine (UCI), some of the researchers have started a promising line regarding Deep Neural Networks and logarithmic Arithmetic to improve the performance and power consumption of accelerators leveraging this technology.
Some of the resulting code is publicly available at:
https://github.com/albertodbg/log-arithmetic
Nevertheless, Computer Vision is one of the toughest problems in Artificial Intelligence. Perceiving the surroundings accurately, quickly and energy efficiently is one of the most essential and challenging tasks for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars. Besides this real-time recognition requirement, recent works have proved that the output of DNNs can easily be fooled by adding relatively small perturbations to the input vector. And, what is more, with the irruption of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) this process of mimicking reality can even be automated. For instance, in a different scenario, Christie’s sold a portrait for $432,000 that had been generated by a GAN, based on open-source code written by Robbie Barrat of Stanford. Although not related with self-driving, this case gives an idea about the importance of reinforcing security in DNNs.
The proposal would then be focused on devising a real-time platform able to deal with the aforementioned issues and, regarding DNN security, being able to detect and counteract these threats.
* Your CV (including a list of publications) limited to a maximum of 4 pages
* Short summary of your proposed project idea (max 1 page)
Tenure-Track Position for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowships?
The "Plan de Actuaciones en Profesorado 2020-23 (ES)" of the Complutense University includes among its calls several options for further hiring of researchers with a PhD. All options require an excellent CV and being granted National Accreditation.
Among the requirements for the stabilization of a Researcher to Assistant Professor, it is required that the researcher has spent at least 3 years as a researcher hired by the UCM in a competitive public call.
Global Fellowships are open to researchers currently within or outside Europe who want to move to a Third Country for 1-2 years and then come back to the Complutense University for an additional year. Therefore, researchers who have been awarded a three-year Global Fellowship would be, after the end of the project and with the current regulatory framework, in a position to meet this condition.
In certain situations, it has been possible for a researcher with at least 2 years working at UCM to opt for a position as a junior Associate Professor.
