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'. 

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MSCA Group
Scientific Supervisor
Arantzazu Mascaraque
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Research group
Surface Science and Nanostrutures
Department
Meterials Physics
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Physical Science
Group description
The research team is led by researchers from UCM belonging to the Surface Science and Nanostructures Group of the Faculty of Physics (Profs. A. Mascaraque, M.A. Gonzalez-Barrio and L. Perez), in collaboration with the Electronic Properties Group of Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Profs. E.G. Michel, P. Segovia and C. Polop), belonging to Ifimac Research Center (www.ifimac.uam.es ). The group has a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories-SNL (USA) and Laboratoire de Physique des Solides-LPS (France) on the topic of this project. A secondment at the LPS is foreseen. Our work focusses in the electronic and structural properties of surfaces and interfaces using state-of-the-art techniques like HR-ARPES, surface x-ray diffraction and scanning probe microscopies. Our work is complemented by research made in synchrotron radiation laboratories. We are currently running two projects on the topic of this proposal, entitled “Mott Physics for new applications in neuromorphic computing” (funded by Spanish Ministery of Science) and “Addressing the stress-related functional limitations of thin-film Li-ion components for energy-intensive applications” (M.era.Net project).
Research group website
Research topic
Energy consumption is a critical limitation for future devices. Semiconductor technologies have reached their intrinsic limitations and disruptive breakthroughs are required. Neuromorphic computing offers a new path towards devices with higher efficiency. Recent results of our collaborators in Sandia National Laboratories (USA) indicate that a device based upon a resistance switching mechanism using LixCoO2 offers a highly promising solution. LixCoO2 has been widely used as a charge storage material in batteries, but it may become soon critical for building a synaptic transistor. However, the physical mechanisms behind the operation of LixCoO2 are not yet understood. In particular, the electronic behavior of LixCoO2 is governed by a poorly understood metal-insulator transition that drives the compound from an insulating phase for LiCoO2 to a metal for the delithiated LixCoO2.
This project focuses on the electronic and structural properties of epitaxial thin films of LixCoO2, using photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy, surface x-ray diffraction and scanning probe microscopies, both in our home laboratories in Madrid and in European synchrotron radiation laboratories. Epitaxial thin films of LixCoO2 grown ex-situ will be characterized,in order to understand their complex electronic behavior and the structural parameters determining it. The delithiation process, related to hole doping and relevant for operation, will be analyzed. Third, model systems suitable to understand the relevant physical processes in the metal-insulator transition will be studied. The goal of the project is to achieve a much better understanding of the physical processes governing the electronic behavior of LixCoO2, to improve its features and to find new materials with better characteristics.
Research area
Physics (PHY)
Candidatures: requirements


Applicants should submit his/her Curriculum Vitae and a letter of motivation.
Candidatures: deadline
2021-07-15
Address
Avda. Complutense, s/n; Ciudad Universitaria; 28040 - MADRID

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.

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