Postdoctoral ProgrammeEMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD)
Welcome to the EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD) initiative.
With the new EIPOD initiative, EMBL underlines its strong commitment to promote interdisciplinary research. The institution has a long-standing tradition of scientific excellence that builds on highly interactive research between the research units: Cell Biology and Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Director's Research, Genome Biology and Structural and Computational Biology at the main laboratory in Heidelberg, Bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton (UK), Structural Biology in Hamburg (Germany), Structural Biology in Grenoble (France) and Mouse Biology in Monterotondo (Italy). EIPOD projects bring together scientific fields that are usually separate or transfer techniques to a novel context.
In the 2011 selection rounds, EMBL and Marie Curie Actions will fund a minimum of 30 EIPODs supported by at least two labs, preferably located in different units. Each project will have one scientific supervisor who will officially host the EIPOD, but all projects will involve extensive collaboration with the partner labs. Applicants are invited to design and propose an interdisciplinary project of their choice according to scientific interest. All EMBL faculty are eligible to be co-ordinators or partners of self-designed project but should be contacted to pre-discuss potential projects. Alternatively, applicants may select from a list of pre-designed projects.
The second EIPOD call of 2011 has closed.
Interviews will take place in Heidelberg from 14-15 November 2011.
In addition to the three years of secure funding, complementary funding can be used to extend postdoctoral training up to a total duration of five years. EIPODs will join the EMBL Postdoctoral Programme with its broad range of advanced training and career development opportunities.
| EIPODs are supported by EMBL and a EU Marie Curie Actions Cofund grant. |
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