Project “CONTRA – Computational Oncology Training Alliance” for Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network - invites 15 PhD students to cooperation
15 PHD/RESEARCH POSITIONS ON CANCER GENOMIC EVOLUTION
Application deadline: 23:59 CET on the 15 February 2018
CONTRA is a H2020 Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network aimed at providing a structured training programme to 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to study tumor evolution using computational techniques upon novel experimental data including, but not limited to, single-cell genomic data. The list of projects are available at our website.
The training structure of CONTRA will include local and network-wide activities and secondments to other labs in the network. Most positions are for 3 years and some for 4 years, contracts starting approximately July 1, 2018, but all of them lead to a PhD degree. Specific conditions may apply to individual positions depending on local regulations. Top-level graduates (master degree or equivalent) in bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics, computer science or evolutionary biology are encouraged to apply. No discrimination will be made on the basis of nationality, gender, race, religion or disability.
H2020 EU funding imposes strict eligibility criteria. At the time of recruitment the researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc…) in the country of the host institute for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to his/her recruitment. The researcher should also be in the first four years of their research careers at the time of recruitment by the host organisation and have not been awarded a doctoral degree. The successful candidate will receive a very generous financial package. The exact conditions varies across the universities, but the gross amounts of EU funding for an ESR is in the range 3710€-4210€. The net salary will result from deducting all compulsory (employer/employee) social security contributions as well as direct taxes from the gross amounts, according to the law applicable to the agreement concluded with the ESR. Some universities will also supplement the EU funding. EU Guide for applicants.
Candidates may apply for the positions through the KTH application system.
The application should include the following documents:
- Curriculum vitae with at most 3 pages
- Transcripts from University / University College
- Contact details for three references
- Brief description of why the applicant wishes to become a PhD student within this network
- Ranking of 3 ESR projects based on the applicant’s preference
Each project supervisor will revise the candidates’ documentation and, on the basis of the completeness and adequacy of the requested material and eligibility, will score candidates based on: (1) academic profile; (2) personal motivation; (3) scientific skills and relevant experience; and (4) English proficiency. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to teleconference interviews with the relevant project supervisor(s).
Application deadline: 23:59 CET on 15 February 2018. Candidates are invited to contact the supervisors for more details. For individual descriptions of the 15 projects, please use the following link: itn-contra.org/esr-projects.