Kanokwan Jarukamjorn
I am Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kanokwan Jarukamjorn from Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. I spend 2 months from June to July, 2016, in Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, under the supervision of ....read more
Maria Pichou
I am extremely satisfied from my experience with Euraxess. First, I found the grant on the Euraxess webpage and I applied afterwards. Second, the guide on Luxembourg I was provided with was very helpful. The people working for Euraxess Luxembourg have always been very close to the researchers....read more
Sandro Lino Cardoso Pereira
I was dealing with the difficulty of getting a suitable place to stay. We had exhausted all the possibilities we have been informed of. We have contacted different people and institutions we believed could be of some help to us, but we were unsuccessfulI was dealing with the difficulty of ....read more
Rudrani Gajraj
EURAXESS was much needed by me at that moment in my life through which I got Marie Curie Interactive Training Networks fellowships. It gave me the exact opportunity I was looking for and my research interests matched with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences....read more
Miguel Oliveira
In general, Euraxess Network was important for me in the process of finding research opportunities throughout Europe, although the most unique feature was the ability to compare these opportunities based on the job conditions offered by the employer....read more
Narasimha Rao Bolla
I worked as a Marie Curie fellow in an EU funded program at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Warsaw, Poland, for three years (2013 September - 2016 August).During this period of my stay in Poland, I have received enormous support from the EURAXESS Centre in Warsaw....read more
Sharmin Nadkarni
I went to Warsaw, Poland, in September 2013 to work at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute for almost 3 years as a PhD student in a European Marie Curie project (Initial Training Networks). From the beginning of my stay in Poland I was helped by EURAXESS with lots of different issues....read more
Dikhi Firmansyah
I came to Poland in July 2011 to work as a Marie Curie early stage researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology. My stay was funded by Initial Training Networks (ITN) under the TOPBIO (TwO Photon absorbers for BIOmedical applications) project....read more
Jan Rozendaal
After completing my PhD in the Netherlands, I came to Warsaw, Poland, for a postdoc position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since I am a European citizen, securing a visa for myself was not a problem. However, my fiancée is from the United States and....read more
Junya Yagi
I came to Poland with my family to join Prof. Piotr Sułkowski's group at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher for his project "Quantum Fields and Knot Homologies" funded by European Research Council....read more
Danil Korelskiy
I am working with developing of zeolite membranes for efficient production of biofuels and chemicals. Such a membrane can act as a very fine filter able to separate molecules from each other. For instance, I am trying to separate butanol from water or carbon dioxide....read more
Shyamala Doraisamy
The project ‘Ultra-layered perception with brain-inspired information processing for vehicle collision avoidance’ (ULTRACEPT), is being funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions....read more
Gladys Wojciechowska
I studied and worked in Indonesia until 2015, where I studied molecular genetics and was a research assistant for a human genetics research group. in 2015, I was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for a Master’s degree in Human Genetics. Genetics has been my main research interest....read more
Azirah Hashim
My research interests are in the areas of Language Contact, English in Southeast Asia, Language and Law. I have been involved in research projects such as the study of loan words in the media in Malaysia, arbitration and courtroom discourse in Malaysia....read more
Lai Zon Weng
After completing my bachelor degree at The University of Melbourne (Australia) in 2004, my first scientific training began with a 10-week summer vacation scholarship in the Monash Biomedical Proteomics Facility at Monash University (Australia), where I....read more
Bhamini Bhujun
My research deals with supercapacitors. These are energy storage devices that can charge in the space of seconds and retain the charge for several days. Supercapacitors aim at replacing batteries in the near future....read more
Patchanita Thamyongkit
I am from Bangkok, Thailand. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree at Chulalongkorn University and received my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. After that, I had conducted research at....read more
Anna Liza Bais & Mun Li Yam
Malaysian Ms Mun Li Yam is currently a senior scientist with a Scotish biotech company while Ms Anna Liza Bais hails from the Philippines and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria University in Vienna, Austria....read more
Ari Sadanandom
I am the director of the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology and Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Durham, UK. In my relatively young career as a plant biologist I had the privilege of discovering novel genes and....read more
Svetlana Klessova
Svetlana Klessova is Director and senior consultant at inno TSD, Sophia Antipolis, France. Svetlana started her research career as visiting research fellow at Harvard University in 1990 and then moved into innovation consultancy....read more
Annelies Wilder-Smith & Sazaly AbuBakar
Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith was the Principal Investigator for the adult cohort in a Phase 2b trial for the chimeric dengue vaccine in Singapore. Professor Sazaly AbuBakar is the Director of the Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Center (TIDREC) and the WHO Collaborating....read more
Philip Ingham
Philip Ingham is Professor of Developmental Biology at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University and at Imperial College, London. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has used genetic approaches to analyse developmental processes both in Drosophila and zebrafish....read more
Florent Ginhoux
Florent Ginhoux graduated in Biochemistry from the University Pierre et Marie CURIE, Paris VI and obtained a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies in Immunology from the Pasteur Institute, Paris. He then started his PhD in the Immunology Team of GENETHON, Evry and obtained his PhD in 2004....read more
Mangala Srinivas
Mangala Srinivas was born in India, moved to Indonesia and then to Singapore, where she completed her B.Sc. (Honours) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From there, she went to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) for her Ph.D. She has since been working at....read more
Martha Loleit
Martha Loleit works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart (Germany) and is Head of the interdisciplinary team “Sustainable Mobility Concepts”. In the project Morgenstadt: City Insights she is in charge of the sector mobility in the selected six cities and ....read more
Wieslaw Nowinski
Dr Wieslaw Nowinski is the creator of the “world‘s most gorgeous” human brain atlases. Born and educated in Poland he is currently working as principal scientist and director of A*STAR‘s Biomedical Imaging Lab in Singapore. His research includes....read more
John Fazakerley & Jamal I-Ching Sam
Prof John Fazerkely is Director of The Pirbright Institute in the UK and coordinator of ICRES. His colleague Dr Jamal I-Ching Sam is a researcher at the Department of Medical Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine in University of Malaya in Malaysia....read more
Martine Reicherts
What does the Directorate General Education and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission have to offer researchers and HEIs outside Europe? Erasmus+ has four main actions offering opportunities for students, researchers....read more
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Prof. Bourguignon, what has brought you to India this time? The ERC visit to India is part of the awareness raising campaign, "ERC - Open to the World", to promote the ERC to the global scientific community. This has two....read more
Sabeena Mannilthodi
EURAXESS India has interviewed Sabeena Mannilthodi, a woman that promises contributing to her research field and to society at large. Sabeena can already serve as role model to other female researchers. She was finalist at the....read more
Anand K Das
Anand Kant Das, PhD student at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and winner of 2nd EURAXESS Science Slammer India title with a slam on "A forgotten life..." What is your research background and interests? My present research....read more
Shreejata Gupta
Shreejata Gupta, PhD student at National Institute of Advanced Studies (Bangalore) and one of the five finalists of ‘EURAXESS Science Slam India 2014’ with a slam on “Towards the Roots of Language: Development of communication systems in macaques leading to....read more
Arathi Kizhedath
Arathi Kizhedath is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher/PhD student at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University in England, United Kingdom. What took you to Newcastle University? I got an offer to....read more
Bhavna Rani
Bhavna Rani is currently residing in India and was a Marie Curie fellow in Italy from 2013-2016. She was part of various MCAA* committees including the Communication group (in the newsletter team) and one of the co-founding member of ....read more
Dr. Matthew DiFranco
Born and raised in New Jersey, I did my undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After 3 years as an IT consultant, I moved to London in 2003 with the intention of completing a....read more
Priyanka Dasgupta
Priyanka won the Science Slam Crown in 2017 with her outstanding live performance called: Theatre and the Mind: Effect of theatre on creativity and cognition; What goes on? As the 1st prize winner, she was given a round trip to....read more
Dr. Praveen Kumar
Dr. Praveen Kumar is Assistant Professor at the School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in Kolkata, and Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Indian Chapter. He has a PhD in Physics from the....read more
Mr. Stephan Lanzinger
Summary of bio-data: In July 2015, Mr. Stephan Lanzinger has taken over as Counsellor and Head of the Science and Technology Section at the German Embassy, New Delhi. In June 2019 he will be posted back to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. From 2009 to 2012....read more
Mr. Prabahan Chakraborty
Prabahan won last year’s Science Slam title with his scintillating live performance called: How does stress affect our brain, and how can we fight back? As the 1st prize winner, he was given a round trip to Europe to visit research institutions of his choice....read more
Viraj Torsekar
Viraj was one of the 5 finalists of the 2018 EURAXESS India Science Slam. He is currently living in Israel, where he is doing his postdoc studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the interview Viraj shares with us interesting insights about his experience....read more
Charuta Kulkarni
How did you get to know about the MSCA Individual Fellowship and what motivated you to apply? While in the United States, my doctoral work actually involved studying history of European landscapes located in the Danube valley. So I always saw Europe as a....read more
Sayani Das
Tell us a bit about yourself My dad had to leave his favorite subject Chemistry due to the sudden demise of my grandfather and started working in a tea estate at the age of 22. My entire childhood was amidst the greeneries. My journey to school (30 km), was most adventurous because....read more
Dr Marco Masia
Marco Masia, Italian by origin, obtained a so called International Outgoing Fellowship which will allow him to gain experience in his field in the US for two years and take back the knowledge gained and expand it in Europe for another one year also covered by the fellowship ....read more
Daniel Abbott
Daniel Abbott is a PhD Candidate at the Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA. His first mobility experience was in Prague, Czech Republic where he spent almost two years of his PhD. He would never imagine his stay in Europe to be so crucial for his....read more
Dr Mark Eldridge
Mark Eldridge works at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Mark and his family moved to the USA two years ago, as he was offered a post-doc position in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology. Mark was one of the participants at the ‘Destination Europe’ event in Washington....read more
Dr Sylvain Zorman
Sylvain Zorman works at Yale University, Connecticut. Sylvain and his family moved to the USA four years ago, as he was offered a post-doc position in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University. Sylvain was one of the....read more
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the newly elected President of the European Research Council (ERC). There are misperceptions in North America concerning European funding sources, such as the complexity of the submission and review processes....read more
Dr Victoria Virador
Dr. Victoria Virador talks about her experience as a scientist in the US, how important the EU-US collaboration is and how she dealt with being a female scientist and a mother of 3. Originally from Spain, Dr. Virador has a very good experience with....read more
Kurtis Baute
Kurtis Baute is from rural Ontario, Canada. He holds a B.A. in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University, and is currently finishing a M.Sc. candidate in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph. Kurtis, please tell us about your research background....read more
Snezana Krstic
Snezana Krstic, Chem. Eng., Independent researcher and consultant, Belgrade, Serbia. She holds several international and national awards for scientific achievements and excellence. Her Marie Curie grant experience was undertaken in the....read more
Dr Albert Quintana
Dr. Albert Quintana is a Starting Grantee at the Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. EURAXESS Links North America conducted an interview with Dr. Quintana at the Destination Europe event in Boston....read more
Dr Alexander Suma
IBIS Power company, founded in November 2012, is currently testing and finalizing our new wind turbine PowerNEST- a product with a captivating history throughout Europe and the United States. In 2016, the first fully functioning PowerNEST’s will be ....read more
Dr. Christina Schneider
Christina Schneider is an Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 2006, and worked at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena (2006-2007), the University....read more
Dr. Jodi Schneider
Jodi Schneider is an assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She studies scholarly communication and social media through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. She is developing Linked Data....read more
Alanna Higgins
Alanna K. Higgins is an MSc graduate from Newcastle University, earning an ESRC accredited research training degree in Food and Rural Development Research. Her master's dissertation focused on the discourse of the food ....read more
Dr. Gerry Alons
After receiving her Master’s degree in International Relations at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Gerry Alons undertook a PhD in Political Science at Radboud University, Institute for Management Research. Her research focuses on foreign economic....read more
Dr. Catarina Ferreira
Dr. Catarina C. Ferreira has been a conservation biologist for over 15 years with vast experience working for the private and the public sectors, and academia. Her expertise spans topics in terrestrial ecology, reintroduction biology....read more
Dr. Michael Ellison
The music of Michael Ellison seamlessly integrates contemporary and traditional influences into a unique and personal idiom. His first opera, Mevlana, Say I am You (Rotterdam Operadagen and Istanbul Music Festivals, 2012) broke new ground in transcultural music....read more
Ms Mugiko Komatsuda
Mugiko Komatsuda is in her second year as a Ph.D student majoring Veterinary Medical Science in University of Tokyo. She’s working on physiological control of appetite and treatment for overeating in animals. She won the first-ever EURAXESS Science....read more
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Professor Bourguignon, you became the ERC president at the beginning of the year. Is this your first trip to Japan in your new capacity? What is the purposeof your visit this time? Although I have visited Japan more than 30 times during my career....read more
Dr. Snezana Krstic
Snezana Krstic, Chem. Eng., Independent researcher and consultant, Belgrade, Serbia. B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD from University of Belgrade where she has started her academic career. She has been actively involved in activities related to the European research....read more
Mr Kai Narita
In mid-June (14th-17th), the six winners of the EURAXESS Science Slam 2014 came together in Bonn, Germany to claim their prize: a two-day science communication training; a trip to Brussels, Belgium to meet with European Commission officials involved in....read more
Dr Maria VASSILEVA
Maria received her university degree in veterinary medicine in her home country of Bulgaria, and after working as a small animal surgeon, followed by a position at a national regulatory institute, she has pursued a PhD in Japan, working on molecular epidemiology....read more
Dr Mai IWASAKI
Mai is a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience, at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in the research group on Molecular Determinants of Pain. She started her fellowship in November in 2015. Mai, please tell us a bit about your current roles....read more
Ms Kiyoko UEMATSU-ERVASTI
Kiyoko is a doctoral student at University of Oulu in Finland. Kiyoko’s research examines the process of globalisation of education. She particularly focuses on surveying opinions amongst students in teacher education in Finland and Japan. She moved back to Japan in....read more
Ms Lucy LAHRITA
Lucy’s research project mainly deals with living cells for various purposes of application in the nexus of food, health, and energy to jointly tackle global challenges, thus promoting sustainable development. Lucy participated in the EURAXESS Science Slam....read more
Dr. Marian MATEJDES
Marian is a Slovakian citizen who followed an undergraduate and graduate cursus in Physical Chemistry at the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he also obtained his PhD degree in 2011. Until 2015, he was an associate researcher to the....read more
Dr. Michiru NAGATSU
Michiru is a researcher in practical philosophy currently based at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT). His field, the philosophy of economics, is a sub-discipline of the philosophy of sciences that addresses....read more
Dr. Ery Odette Fukushima
Ery Odette Fukushima received her Bachelor degree in Biology from the Major University of San Andrés. Later, she received her Master and Ph.D Science degrees from the Yokohama City University. From 2013 she works as Assistant Professor at the....read more
Martine Reicherts
Martine Reicherts began her career as a lawyer in Luxembourg. She joined the European institutions in 1984 and has worked in a wide range of senior positions, mainly within the European Commission – the executive branch of the EU. In September 2015....read more
Dr. Louise WALPORT
Louise received her Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, where she undertook her final year research project with Professor Timothy Donohoe. Following this she undertook a DPhil in the laboratories of Professor Christopher....read more
Dr. Isabelle VEA
Isabelle Vea obtained her Ph.D in Comparative Biology in 2009 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. She was a postdoctoral fellow for three years in the School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences at Nagoya University before starting her MSCA....read more
Dr. Eri SAKATA
Eri Sakata is a project group leader at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany). She received her Ph.D from Nagoya City University at Prof. Koichi Kato lab and carried out a joint postdoc at the laboratories of Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister at....read more
Interviews with Japanese researchers-JSPS-ERC
Meet Masaya Uesugi, post-doc at Ritsumeikan University; Meet Kazuyo Suzuki, researcher at Kyoto University; Meet Fumikazu Furumi, post-doc at Kobe University ....read more
Prof. Dai AOKI
Prof. Dai Aoki: 2000 PhD degree at Osaka Univ. 2000-2002 Postdoc at CEA-Grenoble 2002-2007 Assistant Prof. at IMR, Tohoku Univ. 2007- Researcher at CEA-Grenoble 2010-2015 ERC project (ERC starting grant 2009, NewHeavyFermion) 2012- Professor at IMR, Tohoku Univ.....read more
Interviews with researchers-DFG tour
Meet Hiroki Higuchi, Ph.D student in Neuroscience; Sachiko Takehara, Ph.D in Dental Science; Yu Qiansheng, PhD student in Social Welfare Law; Taiga Kajiwara, Doctoral student of Kumamoto University....read more
Interviews with three Japanese-MSCA IF
Meet Taichiro Iki, Assistant Profesor, Osaka University; Takuma Suda, Research associate, University of Tokyo; Katsumasa Tanaka, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies....read more
Albert Mufundirwa
Albert Mufundirwa, is from Zimbabwe. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fuels and Energy Engineering from Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. He then moved to Japan and graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ....read more
Tetsuya Komabayashi
About Tetsuya Komabayashi: I’m a theoretical petrologist at the University of Edinburgh. I study equilibrium properties of deep Earth materials based on experiment and thermodynamics. As part of my Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in ....read more
Ana Verissimo
I'm Ana Verissimo and I am originally from beautiful Portugal. My first degree was marine biology, which was a lot of fun, as we learnt pretty much the same as biochemists and a few extra subjects, but were outside quite a lot. Then, I did a Master....read more
TBC
Isabelle Vea obtained her Ph.D in Comparative Biology in 2009 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. She was a postdoctoral fellow for three years in the School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences at Nagoya University before starting her MSCA....read more