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'.
Since its creation in 1998, the research group is focusing its scientific activities on the research of melatonin effects and its analogy on the intraocular pressure (IOP), corneal wound healing, Dry Eye syndrome, Glaucoma, and Ocular surface pathologies.
The director of the group is the Professor, Gonzalo Carracedo, PhD.
During 2000 and until now our group has worked intensively to understand the role of melatonin and its analogues on intraocular pressure. At that time the company INSPIRE PHARMACEUTICALS contacted us because of our interest in research on the effects of nucleotides on intraocular pressure. After the knowledge of our experiments with melatonin and analogues, that company has designed new analogues of melatonin which have been tested in our laboratory. The interest of this company in the search for more effective melatonin analogues reducing the intraocular pressure, leaving in the background the cellular and molecular mechanisms, the subject of this project.
The gains we've made on the issue have been, first, to describe that topical application of melatonin and the compound 5-MCA-NAT reduces intraocular pressure very significantly. This effect was found that is mediated by a receptor for melatonin because it could be inhibited with the non-selective antagonist luzindole. Another of the most important aspects of this work was presented prolonged effect in particular compound 5-MCA-NAT (5 carboxyamido methyl N-acetyl tryptamine). This suggested that this compound, with the hypotensive property so marked and prolonged effect that could be employed in the treatment of ocular hypertension.
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.
