The Dahlem Research School at Freie Universität Berlin has established a new research fellowship program called “COFUND” for international researchers. The program is co-funded by the Marie Curie COFUND program of the European Commission. Its purpose is to reinforce the international dimension of junior researchers by supporting highly-qualified postdocs from abroad.
For this purpose, Dahlem Research School offers Postdoctoral Fellowships
Starting in January 2012, each research fellowship is awarded for fifteen months to support postdocs carrying out their research projects in one of Freie Universität’s Excellence Programs.
We expect you to propose your own project plan focusing on the research area of your own choice, based on the research areas of the participating Excellence Programs.
The program is designed to support the further academic career development of the researchers by enhancing their research experience integrated in excellent research groups, by facilitating new co-operations in a stimulating research environment, as well as by promoting their teaching and leadership skills. Aiming at submitting a successful grant application for a subsequent project at the Freie Universität by the end of the fellowship, the program will provide professional guidance essential to preparing grant proposals.
Deadline for applications: August 31st 2011
Incomplete applications and applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Please check your documents carefully before submission.
For further information regarding this call for proposals please goto
www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/promovieren/drs/drs_grant_postdoctoral/cofund_fellowship/index.html
Participating Excellence Programs
TOPOI
Research fields: Spatial Environment and Conceptual Design, Constructing Historical Space, Perception and Representation, Theory and Science.
NeuroCure
Research fields: Glia cells in the normal and pathologic brain; Learning and neuroplasticity in the dopamine system, Exo-endocytic membrane traffic inneurons.
Languages of Emotion
Research fields: Interaction of emotion and cognition; Interaction of affect and language, imagination and symbolic thought; Constitution of emotions on thelevel of cultural codes.
Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies
Research fields: From Stimulation to Control - Using Bone Morphogenetic Protein for Controlled Regeneration under Compromised Conditions; Direct Cellular Migrationto Sites of Injury.
Berlin Mathematical School
Research fields: Differential and Discrete Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, AlgebraicTopology, Discrete Mathematics, Visualization, Numerical Mathematics,Scientific Computing, Geometric Analysis, Differential Equations.
GraduateSchool for East Asian Studies
Research fields: The interdisciplinary analysis of institutions in East Asia from asocial science perspective and historical grounding; Trans-regional phenomena or interregional comparisons.
UniCat –Unifying Concepts in Catalysis
Research fields: Biophysics of water splitting and hydrogen production by metalloproteins and biomimetic catalysts; development of homogeneous transitionmetal catalysts and asymmetric catalysis, multifunctional dendriticarchitectures, analysis of complex hetreogenous catalyst surfaces.
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold a PhD degree and have at least 4 years of research experience (incl. PhD).
- The call for application is open to postdocs from abroad who have lived in Germany for no longer than 6 months at the time of application and are not German citizens.
- Demonstrated by the research idea in the application the intended research proposal has to fit with regard to the research areas represented by each of the Excellence Programs.
Duration
15 Months, starting January 2012
Funding
- Postdoctoral research fellows receive a working contract according to the collective agreement for the publicarea of Berlin (TV-L FU E13 pay grade of approx. 1960 Euro per month after tax)
- Social security and health insurance are covered by the salary.
- Monthly mobility allowance
- Travel allowance (once)
- Research allowance of 1200 Euro per month for lab-based projects or 300 Euro per month for non-lab-based projects
Application procedure
- Please fill out the entire online application form at www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/promovieren/drs/drs_grant_postdoctoral/cofund_fellowship/index.html.
- After having filed the electronic application form, we kindly ask you to send us the required application materials listed in the following section via email to fellowship-drs(at)fu-berlin.de
Reference:DRS-COFUND-2012
Application Materials
The following documents must be included in an application for a fellowship:
- CV including personal information, academic and professional career, credentials and references (names and contact details of at least two referees including their position, department/institution or company and its function). Please note that each named referee should provide a letter of reference to be submitted with the CV.
- Project proposal (max. 5-10 DINA4-pages), including a 1-page work-/time schedule. The template for the schedule is provided for you here. Please note that the project proposal should be a complete outline of your proposed work which will be read in addition to the project summary requested in the electronic application form.
- Letter of Motivation (max. 1 DINA4-page)
- Abstract of your PhD-thesis (max. 1DIN A4-page)
- Proof of scientific excellence (a list of outstanding and relevant publications)
- A list of granted projects/third-party-projects and important research co-operations (please include the department or company, its function, contact information, topic ofresearch/project title and type of cooperation)
- Specifics (e.g. parental leave, carefor family members, etc.)
For all written materials please use the following formatting: 2 cm top, bottom andside margins, font Arial, font size 10, 1.5 line spacing.
Please combine all records into one pdf-document (max. 10 MB). Applications exceeding 10MB will not be considered. All application documents must be submitted in English.
Selection procedure
Once your application is complete, you will receive online acknowledgement together with an individual code number for your application. In addition, you will receive a link and login details for a secure web page to be able to view the selection procedure at any time. The results of the selection procedure will be anonymized and only the code numbers will be published. Applicants are notified by e-mail each time new results are announced.
For further information regarding this call for proposalsgo to
www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/promovieren/drs/drs_grant_postdoctoral/cofund_fellowship/index.html
