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University of Göttingen was awarded another five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

In the last call of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, the University of Göttingen was awarded five grants with a total budget of more than 1MM euros. This is despite MSCA fellowships being among the most competitive and prestigious awards in Europe, aimed at supporting the best and the most promising scientists.

  1. European Fellowship: Dr. R. Arató (Hungary)
    Towards automated fission-track age determination via artificial intelligence
    Coordinator: Dr. K. Lünsdorf, Faculty of Geoscience and Geography
  2. Global Fellowship: Dr. L. Steinhübel (University of Göttingen)
    Rural Transformation and Structural Change
    Coordinator: Prof. S von Cramon-Taubadel, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
    Outgoing host: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Myanmar
  3. Global Fellowship: Dr. E. Cisneros (University of Göttingen)
    From human to planetary health: Global land-use impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic Coordinator: Prof. K. Kis-Katos, Faculty of Business and Economics
    Outgoing host: University of Texas, USA
  4. Global Fellowship: Dr. S. Kara (UK)
    Textual integrity of the Qur’an: Sunni and Shi’i Historical Narrations on Falsification
    Coordinator: Prof. J. Scheiner, Faculty of Humanities
    Outgoing host: University of Toronto, Canada
  5. Global Fellowship: Dr. J. Gerlings (Denmark)
    Kant, a Cosmopolitan in Königsberg: an Idea for a Local History with a Cosmopolitan Aim
    Coordinator: Prof. M. van Gelderen, Lichtenberg-Kolleg
    Outgoing host: University of Chicago, USA

EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships:

Individual Fellowships support the mobility of researchers within and beyond Europe – as well as helping to attract the best foreign researchers to work in the EU. Postdoctoral researchers of any nationality can enhance their qualifications and diversify their competences by conducting a research project at one or several host institutions in/beyond Europe:

  • European Fellowship (EF): Mobility within/to Europe
  • Global Fellowship (GF): Mobility outside of Europe with an obligatory 12-month return phase to Europe


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