COFUND MULTIPLY: 33 Marie S. Curie Postdoctoral fellowships in Photonics 5479 views

The 6^th call of MULTIPLY is now OPEN. MULTIPLY is a 5 year Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action co-ordinated by the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, that will offer interdisciplinary training. There will be six calls over a period of 3 years, from 2017 to 2020. The first call was in January 2017.

Number of Fellowships: 33

Research areas:

• Optical communications
• Laser Technology
• Biomedical photonics
• Sensing
• Nano and integrated photonics
• Emerging photonics applications

Eligibility:

• Applicant must be an experienced researcher, be in possession of a doctoral degree as on reference date**; and if the applicant does not have a doctoral degree, they shall have at least four years of full-time research experience.
• Applicant must meet the mobility criteria; applicant must not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of your host organization for more than a year in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.
• Applicant must produce a letter of COFUND commitment from the host organization.
• There is no age limit

** For Call 3 the applicable Reference Date will be July 1 2018 (subject to the ranking list being finalised before this date). To be eligible for funding, you have to demonstrate that you comply with both eligibility and mobility criteria on the Reference Date

How to apply:

Follow the following steps:

• Step 1: Find a host of your choice, and approach them with your research idea. Ensure that you meet the mobility criterion when choosing your host.
• Step 2: Agree on the specifics of the work plan and research goals with your host. At this point, ensure that the host also will be able support you with their share of the mandatory COFUND commitment over the whole duration of the proposed fellowship.
• Step 3: Write your research proposal together with your host.
• Step 4: Obtain the letter of COFUND commitment from your host that guarantees your host will support your fellowship with their share of the COFUND commitment over the whole duration of your fellowship.
• Step 5: Apply to the MULTIPLY fellowship programme before the call deadline.

Partner Organization:

1. Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Birmingham UK.
2. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
3. Institute for Complex Systems, National Research Council
4. L’université de Bourgogne (uB)
5. Universite’ de Lille 1
6. Chalmers University of Technology
7. IESL-FORTH
8. University of Belgrade
9. Universita Degli Studi Di Brescia
10. The FEMTO-ST Institute
11. Tampere University of Technology
12. Athens Information Technology
13. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
14. Technical University of Denmark
15. CRHEA-CNRS
16. Université Paris Diderot
17. Institut Non Linéaire de Nice
18. University College London
19. Cyprus University of Technology
20. Royal Institute of Technology
21. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Instituto Nazionale di Ottica
22. University of Mons
23. Cork Institute of Technology
24. Instituto de Optica CSIC
25. Università di Torino
26. Technische Universiteit Delft
27. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
28. Laser Zentrum Hannover
29. Leibnitz Universitaet Hannover
30. Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light
31. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, China
32. Universiti Putra Malaysia
33. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
34. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
35. Novosibirsk State University
36. The Australian National University
37. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
38. Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica Y Electronica
39. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
40. Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A.C
41. Nankai University
42. Xian’s Institute of optics and precision mechanism
43. IOFFE Physico-technical institute of the Russian sciences.
44. Huazhong University of Science and Technology
45. Lomonosov Moscow State University
46. Tyco Electronics Raychem bvba
47. University of Rostock, Institute of Physics
48. KAUST, Saudi Arabia
49. University of Southern Denmark
50. UPV/EHU – University of the Basque Country, Spain
51. Center for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath
52. National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom