Research fellowshipsMSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

The University of Strathclyde invites expressions of interest from researchers seeking to apply to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 with Strathclyde as their host institution

The fellowship

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility.

The suitability of the research environment of the host institution is an important aspect of the fellowships. Applicants should make a strong case for the suitability of the opportunities for mentoring, training and networking that can be provided to them by the University of Strathclyde.

Research areas

We are particularly interested in projects related to the following main research areas:

Humanities & Social Sciences

  • children, young people & families
  • social justice & inequalities
  • health & well-being
  • culture, media & journalism
  • gender studies, race & migration
  • education, teaching & learning
  • public policy, elections, governments & democracies

Science

  • cellular basis of disease: the use of cell, tissue, & animal models to understand the molecular, cellular, & systems-level changes that drive disease
  • pharmaceutical sciences: the development, manufacture, & testing of the next generation of medicines
  • pharmacoepidemiology & health service research: the effective use of medicines & public health improvement
  • bionanotechnology & analytical chemistry
  • synthetic chemistry & chemical biology
  • materials & computational chemistry
  • quantum technologies for information processing, computing, or sensing
  • photonic devices & systems from fundamental science to applications-driven research
  • plasma physics, laser-plasma interactions, & high-power sources
  • digital cultural heritage
  • generative AI applied to information retrieval
  • program verification & correctness: the development of the mathematical foundations of programming languages & logic
  • mathematical models in epidemiology
  • marine science modelling
  • modelling for sustainable agriculture & forestry
  • mathematical properties of algorithms for predictive modelling & classification in large linked health data sets
  • causal inference methods in observational health data
  • reliable numerics for scientific machine learning
  • biologically-inspired active matter

Strathclyde Business School

  • measuring the modern economy
  • applied microeconomics of health, labour, education
  • economics of energy & the environment
  • systems & risk modelling
  • optimisation
  • AI & strategy
  • entrepreneurial ecosystem
  • inclusive entrepreneurship (gender, race, developing economies, for example)
  • entrepreneurship & enterprise policy
  • innovation
  • organisational performance & behaviour

To be eligible, applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

Applicants must hold a PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) by the deadline for applications. Those who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but have not yet formally received the degree are also eligible to apply.

Candidates must have no more than eight years of research experience since the award of their PhD. Periods spent outside research, as well as career breaks, will not count towards this limit. Likewise, research undertaken in third countries will not be counted for nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries seeking to reintegrate into Europe.

Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, study, for example) in the country of the host institution (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or in the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships), for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately preceding the call deadline.

Supported researchers can be of any nationality. However, candidates for the Global Postdoctoral Fellowship must be nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

Details of the scheme and several useful documents can be found on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships page.

All potential candidates are encouraged to carefully check the full eligibility criteria in the 2025 Guide for Applicants.

Financial details

The salary and expense allocations for the fellowships can be found in the Horizon Europe Work Programme - 2023-2025 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions.

Submitting your expression of interest

Expressions of interest should be sent to rkes-international@strath.ac.uk by 28 May 2025.

Please send the following:

A maximum three-page CV covering education, any relevant employment, publications, awards.

A two-page fellowship proposal consisting of:

  • an indication of whether you would like to apply for a European or Global Fellowship
  • a statement of your eligibility to apply referencing the specific candidate eligibility criteria, specifically addressing the mobility and research experience since PhD
  • a summary of the proposed research project including the aims and objectives, methodology and outputs
  • a statement on the suitability of the research environment at the university referencing research areas (as listed above), research groups and potential supervisor(s) for the fellowship
  • a description of potential scientific, social and economic impacts that your project can make
  • details of opportunities for training and networking activities that the fellowship would provide (including any secondments and placement in the non-academic sector)

An internal university selection process will determine which candidates will be invited to go forward to develop a full application with the university.  

The university will endeavour to provide all candidates with a decision on their expression of interest by mid-June.

If you have any questions, please email: rkes-international@strath.ac.uk