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'.
We use Discovery Proteomics, to acquire an overview of the proteome Candida cells. Then focusing on a selected set of proteins of interest, we use Targeted Proteomics, which enables validation and quantitation for the target set with very high reproducibility and sensitivity.
We have a great interest in the study of particular proteomes with great potential clinical applications. In this respect we study the phosphoproteome; the surfome, i.e. the set of proteins present in the fungal surface which first contact cells of the host immune system; proteins present in secreted vesicles, and the set of proteins involved in apoptosis, since those would make an ideal target to selectively trigger this process.
We are also involved in the Human Proteome Project (HPP) focusing on missing proteins and proteins involved in the defense against infectious diseases.
The proposed projects are:
1. Monitoring the changes in the phosphoproteome and acetylome during C. albicans-macrophage interaction and in the presence of H2O2 as apoptosis inducer. Mass spectrometry analysis, data mining and functional validation of the results. These results will shed light to C. albicans biology and to the signaling networks involved in its death, which could be applied for the design of new therapies
2. Global proteomic study in C. albicans after treatment with metformin, an oral antidiabetic drug that was recently found to have synergic antifungal activity with common antifungal drugs. Mass spectrometry analysis, data mining and functional validation of the results.
3. Study of C. albicans interactome, using native electrophoresis, mass spectrometry and machine learning will allow an integrated description of Candida cellular processes and of the important proteins involved in this response, including those with unknown function. Six hours of interaction with macrophages will be the selected condition for this study
- Two Letters of recommendation
- Motivation letter
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.
