Three MSCA grant holders arrive at the Institute of Physics of the CAS
29. 03. 2022
A total of 11 postdoctoral researchers have headed back from abroad to Czechia as grant holders of the Horizon Europe’s “Excellent Science” programme. Three of the researchers who will be developing their career path at the Institute of Physics have received a total of 498 836,16 Euros awarded to them as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships in order to finance their research in physics. In addition to this, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has received an ERA Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Each of the grants allows its holder to participate in a research project at a selected research institution and, at the same time, develop the holder’s professional career in tailor-made training curricula. One of the conditions for receiving a grant was that the prospective researcher will return back to their original institution from abroad. In fact, the aforementioned EU programme was conceived, among other things, to remedy brain drain and as such the programme can be used by successful applicants as a “return ticket” officially known as a return home fellowship.
The awarded grants have already been used as return tickets by two researchers Ivana Ebrová and Barbora Špačková, who have already returned to the Institute of Physics, while Hamad Ahmed, a postdoctoral researcher and the third grant holder, will arrive from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain any time soon. He will start his research project at the research centre in Dolní Břežany. As part of the ERA Postdoctoral Fellowship, we are also receiving the latest addition to our cosmology team, namely Leonardo Trombetta.
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