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

Department of Political and International Sciences (DISPI)

Organisation / Company University of Genoa Department Department of Political and International Sciences (DISPI) Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

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 Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. Our University has been beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie (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
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.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
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Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

The main research areas focus on medium- to long-term analyses of changes in the social composition of cities, with particular attention to residential segregation dynamics, housing prices, real estate markets, welfare systems, environmental factors, and mobility flow dynamics. The preferred approaches are transdisciplinary, combining sociology, urban studies, statistics, demography, economic geography, and computer engineering. The department provides a supportive environment for the development of innovative, data-driven and theoretically grounded research projects, and actively encourages MSCA applicants to propose original research ideas aligned with these themes.

The Department of Political and International Sciences is a transdisciplinary environment of excellence in research and teaching at the University of Genoa.

The researcher will be integrated into the DIAMETROIT research group (), coordinated by Prof. Niccolò Morelli, recipient of a FIS2 Starting Grant awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in 2024, with a total budget of €1.3 million.

The research group consists of six members with expertise ranging from general and urban sociology to social statistics and demography. Its core research focuses on the analysis of the social composition of Italian Functional Urban Areas from 1991 to the present, using census data integrated with additional data sources.

By employing urban grid–based approaches, the group is currently laying the foundations for fine-grained international comparisons of cities. The department is therefore interested in research projects that can contribute to advancing international comparative urban research, with particular attention to Functional Urban Areas and high spatial resolution analyses aimed at investigating neighbourhood effects.

An expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Niccolò Morelli (niccolo.morelli , ORCID:

-8640) 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 Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the above mentioned deadline.

Info on MSCA PF available at the following link: