Call Expression of Interest MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships at UNIGE – N. aut

Description - Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026

University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Skln'towska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. Our University has been beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie  (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of funding scheme of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersect oral exchanges.

MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training and networking costs. The research projects will have 2- or 3-years duration.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development
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The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the concerned Masterclass MSCA@Uni Ge
. Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-days online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal рэ
. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposal, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organisation of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of Uni Ge, National Contact Point and other experts.

The masterclass will take place in Spring 2026
.

MSCA domain: Information Science and Engineering (ENG)

Research concerns intelligent, affective, and social human-machine interaction. Activities address multimodal interactive systems, i.e., systems that can analyse the behaviour of their users by capturing and processing data from different sensory channels (e.g., gesture, facial expression, and speech) and that can generate multisensory feedback (e.g., auditory and visual feedback). Research primarily focuses on the real-time MSG automated analysis of nonverbal affective and social behaviour, with a particular emphasis on full-body movement and social signals in small groups of users.

Applications are expected in the areas of education, cultural heritage, rehabilitation, and the performing arts.

An expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Gualtiero Volpe (gualtiero.volpe , Orcid :

-4627) within 15th April 2026.
Your file should contain the following elements:

For MSCA-PF 26 call (opening foreseen on 10th April 2026), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (9th September 2026) postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global mahdoll) for more bolezni than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the above mentioned deadline.

Info on MSCA PF available at the following link: