Call for post-doctoral students n°5 (PART 1)

Context:

The "Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie" of Aix-Marseille University is launching its Human Resources 2024 call for proposals, which will fund up to 4 post-doctoral research projects lasting a maximum of 24 months (12 months renewable once), each with a mobility budget of 5k euros/year.

This year, the call for proposals will take place in a single round between two calls (September and December), and it will be the project/applicant pairing that will be directly evaluated.

Call conditions:

• Proposals will have to address scientific issues that fall primarily within one of the 5 societal challenges defined in the 2024-2027 IMI roadmap:
  1/ Engineering for health (biomechanics, pharmaceutical processes, diagnostics, etc.)
  2/ Energy transition (wind, nuclear, biomass, energy efficiency, etc.)
  3/ Transport and sustainable mobility (aeronautics, automotive, rail, space)
  4/ Natural and living environments (fire, geophysics, granular, water treatment, plant biomechanics,biomimetics, etc.)
  5/ Urban environments and sustainable cities (buildings (thermal, acoustic, aerodynamic, etc.), pollutants, etc.)

• With the aim of providing the most relevant responses possible to a major scientific challenge and strengthening the dynamic of the site, proposals will involve teams from at least two of the Institute'slaboratories.
• The post-docs recruited are expected to take part in training activities and/or seminars, and/or anyother events aimed at disseminating scientific culture.
• Applications from AMU graduates are not accepted.

Evaluation:

• The scientific committee of the institute will be in charge of evaluating the proposals on the basis of the quality of the applicants and on the ability of the projects to demonstrate the added-value providedby this call, such as the use of complementary methodologies and/or skills in the responses provided, the innovative nature and risk-taking, associated training activities, etc.