Marie-curie Post-doctoral Fellowship

**Company Description**

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fund excellent research and innovation and equip researchers at all stages of their career with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. The MSCA help build Europe’s capacity for research and innovation by investing in the long-term careers of excellent researchers.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organisation.

**Please note that we do not offer 'Global Postdoctoral Fellowship positions'.**
**Qualifications**
In order to qualify you will need to meet the following requirements:
At the time of recruitment:

- You have a maximum of 8 years experience in research from the date of the award of the PhD degree.
- Proficiency in English is required.

**Additional Information**
The Postdoctoral Fellowship position offers:

- An employment contract for the corresponding duration of the Individual Fellowship (typically 2 years).
- A basic stipend between of 7239 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax) according to your professional experience.
- Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
- Depending on your individual circumstances: an installation grant, family, child and infant allowances as well as travel expenses to and from Geneva.
- 2.5 days of paid leave per month.
- Access to formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

This is how you can apply:

- A CV
- A brief research statement summarising what you would like to achieve with the postdoctoral fellowship hosted at CERN (half a page)
- A list of your most important publications, indicating your particular contribution

For this position we do not require a reference letter. This is why you may disregard in the ‘acknowledgement of receipt message’ the paragraph which refers to the reference letter’.