Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 30 Innovative T[...] GENOVA

Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 30 Innovative T[...]
Genova
Liguria, GENOVA

Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transport Engineering - DIME

Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 The University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.

Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the funding schemes of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.

The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs.

The research projects will have 2- or 3-year durations.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.

The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal.

This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.

The masterclass will take place in May and June 2025, with the first online training session scheduled on the 8th May 2025 afternoon.

MSCA domain: Information Science and Engineering (ENG); Environmental and Geosciences (ENV); Physics (PHY) Research Project Description Buildings are Europe's single largest energy consumer, responsible for over 40% of the energy we use and a third of our greenhouse gas emissions.

They offer significant potential for energy efficiency gains and the integration of renewables.

The recently strengthened legislation on the energy performance of buildings delivers on the EU's Renovation Wave strategy, launched in 2020, which aims to double the renovation rate and foster deep renovation.

A proper energetic design of buildings is crucial for enhancing energy efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and ensuring occupant comfort.

By optimizing insulation, ventilation, heating, cooling, and lighting systems, buildings can significantly lower energy consumption and operational costs.

This approach contributes to sustainability by minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and improves indoor air quality and thermal comfort, promoting healthier living and working environments.

Research on the subject is broad, and the topics that can be developed can range from the energy design of buildings in a dynamic regime through free tools such as ESP-r, Radiance, OpenFOAM, etc. , to the innovative design of thermal bridges, considering heat and mass transfer in a transient and three-dimensional regime, modeled with the aid of the Lattice Boltzmann Method.

Innovative materials such as PCMs, VIPs, thermal reflective insulators (radiant barriers), and aerogel are also worthy of study.

Renewable energy communities can also be at the core of the study, promoting efficient sharing of energy resources and intelligent demand management.

The goal is to create a replicable model that can be adapted to different contexts, promoting the transition to a clean energy-based economy.

Research Group Our research group is active in the fields of thermodynamics, heat transfer, plant design HVAC, acoustics, and lighting.

Several professors, researchers, grant researchers, and Ph. D. students of various nationalities are involved, leading the applicant to be part of an international multi-disciplinary research group, which can also take advantage of cutting-edge software, computing resources, and labs.

Regarding building energy, our group deals with transient numerical modeling, phase change materials, thermal reflective insulators (radiant barriers), natural gas demand, optimization of the building envelope, thermal bridge simulations, green roofs, and façades.

Your file should contain the following elements:

For the MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.

More info on MSCA PF at the following link:

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