LS4FUTURE is pleased to invite you to the upcoming Online Informative Session dedicated to European Postdoctoral Fellowships Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with our guest speaker Ana Sofia Alves from IGC-FCG.

Online Informative Session – European Postdoctoral Fellowships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Date: 2 July 2024

Time: 12h00 – 12h45

Via Zoom

As part of our Online Informative Sessions series, we bring topics meant to inform and empower our community, as well as promote networking.

Marie Curie European fellowships are open to PhD holders moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career and can last between 1 and 2 years. Researchers of any nationality can apply. After a brief introduction to this funding scheme, this session will cover eligibility criteria, expenses covered as well as the application and submission process.

Meet our speaker:

Ana Sofia Alves has been serving as a Pre-Award Grants Advisor at the RFA Unit of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) in Oeiras, Portugal, since 2021.

Her main responsibility is to actively assist the IGC community in securing competitive funds for individual research projects and other scientific activities related to the institute’s strategic goals, following the internal policies and conditions of the different funding bodies. Ana Sofia is responsible for searching & disseminating funding opportunities tailored to the institute`s needs, checking the application regulations and addressing researchers` application-related queries, notifying researchers of relevant funding opportunities. In addition, she has been providing professional guidance and support for postdoctoral grant proposals to competitive calls from national and international funders.

Ana Sofia holds a PhD. in Biosciences from Universidade de Coimbra and has five years of experience in Marine Ecology research as a post-doc at the University of Lisbon, Évora, and ISA. She also has experience in Research Management, having worked as a project manager at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.