We are looking for highly motivated and creative PhD researcher at the Institute of Advanced Materials in the framework of the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network MAESTRO for a three years contract.

Monthly salary for the fellow before tax would be approx.:Living Allowance €3035.36/month+ mobility allowance = €600/month + family allowance if applicable = €500/month.

Eligibility crireria:
• The applicant shall at the time of recruitment be in the first four years of their research career and have not been awarded a doctoral degree. (This time is measured from the date of award/diploma of the most recent taught degree.)
• The applicant must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the host institute for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account.
• The applicant can be of any nationality.

Academic requirements:
• Candidates should preferably have a scientific or techno-scientific degree (Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Materials engineering...) and good skills both for laboratory and modeling work.
• We would normally expect the academic and English Language requirements to be met by point of application. Basic Spanish/Catalan will be desirable
Other requirements:
• Willingness to travel around Europe and Israel.
• Highly motivated candidate wishing to develop their skills and work with mixed environments (scientific research and industry) to improve the impact of their work, whilst still producing high quality academic output.

During the course of employment/enrolment in PhD programme you will undertake 2-3 secondments, each lasting 2 months or more. We are looking for an Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to be appointed as staff at the host organisations within MAESTRO. ESRs will be enrolled in a three years PhD programme at the Institute of Advanced Materials, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

Please, provide your CV with a covering letter

Deadline date: 
Thursday, May 17, 2018

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