STARS: SupercompuTing And Related applicationS Fellows Programme

Scholarship Description

STARS Fellows Programme

STARS: SupercompuTing And Related applicationS Fellows Programme invite applications from international researchers who want to pursue post-doctoral research at Barcelona Super-computing Center, Spain. STARS Fellows Programme will provide annual living and mobility allowances (35,000€ gross salary), annual Family allowance Researchers (1,500€ gross salary) and annual budget for Travel and Research & Training activities (5,400€).

 BSC STARS International Research Fellow programme aims at promoting the training of highly skilled post-doc in all fields of High Performance Computing and related applications, specifically in Earth Science and Meteorology, in Life Sciences, Genomics and Personalized Medicine and in Computational Engineering and Physics and Computational Sciences. Participation in the BSC STARS programme will be a unique opportunity for young researchers to boost their careers and enhance their professional growth.

Focus Areas:

• Earth Science and Meteorology
• Life Sciences
• Genomics and Personalized Medicine
• Computational Engineering and Physics
• Computational Social Sciences

For more information about BSC research lines and groups available in the STARS programme click here.

Program Period:

• 3 years

Scholarship Coverage

STARS Fellows Programme will provide:

• Annual living and mobility allowances (35.000€ gross salary).
• Annual Family allowance Researchers (1.500€ gross salary).
• Annual budget for Travel and Research & Training activities (5.400€).

Eligibility Criteria

To qualify for STARS Fellows Programme, candidate must fulfill all of the following requirements below:

• Required Language: English. 
• Eligible Countries: All world countries
• Candidates may not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline (Time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention, compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account).
• Candidates must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience at the date of the call deadline.
• Candidates must not have been awarded a PhD degree for more than 6 years prior to the call deadline or may not have more than 10 years of research experience prior to the call deadline (Exceptions are made for documented periods of parental leave and sick leave. Women may claim up to 12 months for child, for a maximum of 3 years).

1. Fill the Application form with the following information:
   • Personal and contact details.
   • Contact details of the referees.
   • Contact detail of the PhD Supervisor.
   • Date and institution of the PhD award.
   • Definition of Main research area of interest at BSC and Selection of the 3 BSC groups, in order of interest, that the fellow would join at BSC.
2. Provide the following documents with your application:
   1. A Resume/CV which has to include all the fields of the attached PDF. (maximum 4000 characters with spaces).
   2. A Cover/Motivation Letter explaining your interest in joining the Programme and BSC and specifically explaining the interest that you have in the research group(s) that you have chosen, and indicate the match between the group with your research experience (maximum 4000 characters with spaces).
   3. Your Research plan (maximum 4000 characters with spaces).
   4. 2 References letters (maximum 4000 characters with spaces): indicating the contact information of the referees.
3. Submit your application.

Website

To know more about STARS Fellows Programme, please visit official website:

Official Website

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