The Seal of Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellowship@OeAW Programme will promote young, promising scientists who submitted to the 2025 call for proposals within the MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship programme and who were awarded a Seal of Excellence by the European Commission.
Deadline
31 March 2026
Application
The call is open to researchers who
have submitted a proposal in the MSCA-PF-EF Call 2025 and
chose the Austrian Academy of Sciences as their Host Institution and
are assigned the Seal of Excellence – MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship (score ≥85%).
The following documents shall be sent in SURNAME_PROJECTACRONYM_pdf format:
Application form (Attachment 1)
Proposal as submitted in the EU Funding & Tender Portal (Form A and Form B) in the MSCA-PF Call 2025
Evaluation Summary Report Letter incl. the Seal of Excellence Award by the EC
Copy of the certificate awarding the PhD
Declaration of consent signed by the institute’s director (Attachment 2).
CDP V1.0 (Attachment 3)
Applications referring to the SoE Calls 2025 shall be sent to SoEapplications(at)oeaw.ac.at no later than 31st March 2026.
Funding
The call for applications aims at granting € 110.000,- as of 1st July 2026 for each year of activity for the whole duration as applied for in the MSCA-European Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal excluding an optional placement in the non-academic sector after the end of the fellowship (i.e max. 24 months). The budget shall be used for covering the salary of the researcher (max. € 95.000,-) and research, training and networking activities (incl. secondments of max. 6 months if applicable) € 15.000,-p.a.
Duration of Funding
Funding will be available for max. 24 months as stipulated in the MSCA application. Part-time employment and a respective extension of duration are not provided. Project starting date: 1st July 2026.
Award
The SoE_PF@OeAW is awarded according to the respective call programme and will be based on an employment contract according to Austrian law and a complementary SoE-Fellowship Agreement (template).
| Fellow | Supervisor | Acronym | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christos Kyprianou | Nicolas Rivron | INTERIM | Building an interstitial human embryo implantation model | |
Dusan Nikolic | Eva Reinisch | PROLEX | Processing of Acoustic Properties of Lexical Prosody | |
Fernando Fernández Garcia | Barbara Maier | cancerTLS | Evaluating the relevance of tertiary lymphoid structures as antigen presentation niches in cancer | |
Riccardo Falcone | Časlav Brukner | QCFT | Quantum-to-classical transition in quantum field theory |
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Lubos HLADEK
RELCOM – Recovery from Effortful Listening and Communication
Supervision by Piotr Majdak
Ebano Resende de Souza
APMUS –„Is absolute (perfect) pitch a hinderance for musical ability?”
Supervision by Marisa Höschele
Marjolein Bosch
"Organic technology: Palaeolithic tools, beads and art; their uses in life and death"
Supervised by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Martina de Santis
"Engineering a uteroid hydrogel platform for human implantation"
Supervised by Nicolas Rivron
Ann-Katrin Hopp
"Uncovering the Role of Metabolites in Regulating Mesenchymal Cell Fate Decisions."
Supervised by Giulio Superti-Furga