MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

The University of Siegen is a young, modern, mid-sized institution of higher education (around 14,400 students) in Germany, located about 80 km east of Cologne. In Siegen, education and research, the core tasks of a German university, are performed by over 247 professors and 1,172 scientific employees who are supported by around 880 administrative staff. The University of Siegen focuses its human resource activities for researchers within the framework of the European Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R). In 2017 the HR Excellence Research label has been received from the European Commission. The University of Siegen mainly consists of 4 highly interdisciplinary faculties covering a wide range of scientific areas including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and technology, economical sciences, as well as healthcare and wellbeing. We are interested in MSCA-PF projects within the framework of our Profile and Areas of Competence: Research profile | Universität Siegen

The University of Siegen has a special interest in offering young academics cross-border options for a successful career. We would like to invite you to visit our website to find out what research is being carried out in the different faculties (https://www.uni-siegen.de/en)) and chairs. If you have identified a potential supervisor who might serve as a host for your MSCA-PF application, please contact Mr Peter Stolpp (EU advisor at the University of Siegen) with a short abstract of your research idea, an up-to-date CV and the name of the potential supervisor: peter.stolpp@zv.uni-siegen.de. For the forthcoming MSCA-PF call, the deadline of 10 September 2025 must be assumed. Please contact us early enough to be able to discuss and write a possible joint application! We look forward to hearing from you!