ARTICLE UPDATED ON 21 FEBRUARY 2024.
A first INFN call for applications (available on the Job Opportunities page on the website www.infn.it/en/) for research grants to support Ukrainian scientists is open. This call offers to researchers and technologists the possibility to work at one of the INFN facilities.
"The objective of the positions offered by our Institute - explains Antonio Zoccoli, president of INFN - is to give concrete help to Ukrainian colleagues whose personal and professional lives have been devastated by this atrocious war. If this call is successful, the number of positions offered could be increased in the future." "We hope to be able to give useful and effective support to those in need, by being able to go back to work in a context of peace, dialogue and collaboration, in the full spirit of science."
The INFN call offers research grant positions, funded through a dedicated allocation of € 200,000 from ordinary INFN funds, approved by the INFN Board of Directors last March 31.
The candidates eligible to apply to the call are Ukrainian citizens with a master's degree or PhD in physics, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, computer science.
It is possible to apply through the dedicated page at the link https://reclutamento.dsi.infn.it/, attaching a CV and a list of the main scientific publications.
The submission of the application will be followed by a remote interview with the examining committee, which will evaluate the applications within 7 working days from the reception.
The gross annual amount of the grant, which may range from 25.000€ to 50.000€, will be established by the examining committee taking into consideration the professional and scientific curriculum and the experience of each winner.
At the end of the selection process, the outcome will be communicated to the candidates and published on the call web page.
INFN will help the winners for an initial relocation, while the scientific activity will be carried out under the supervision and direction of the person in charge of the research, project or experiment for which the research grant has been awarded.
UPDATE OF 21 FEBRUARY 2024 The INFN continues to support Ukrainian researchers with the renewal, at the end of the first year, of the positions assigned on the basis of the dedicated call. Currently, 17 Ukrainian researchers work at INFN facilities.
