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The advisors must be selected among the 4 recruiting universities, AMU, UAM, SUR and ULB. Co-advisors must be selected among the 10 universities listed on the Partner Universities section (recruiting universities + associated universities).

It is not mandatory to select an advisor from this database; this search tool is meant as an assistance to candidates, but you may contact potential advisors from the four recruiting universities who are not on this list. Please visit the research centers links.

Note that for AMU and ULB, only one contact person per research institute is listed, who will assist you in finding a supervisor that matches your research subject. Use the CIVIS3i contact form to request assistance.

When contacting a potential advisor, CIVIS3i recommends that you present yourself, attach your CV including links to your online academic profiles (which should be updated), indicate what is the reason for your contact, the fellowship programme name (mention it is a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND programme) and website, your tentative title and an abstract if you have one ready, and why do you think this researcher is the best fit for your project. Add also what is required from the advisor (eg, contribution to the proposal preparation, typical postdoctoral supervision, duties during the fellowship such as progress reports, etc). You may indicate that if this researcher is currently not available to supervise you, you’d be grateful if she/he could recommended colleagues suitable to supervise your research. Kindly ask for a reply and indicate the maximum reply date ("please kindly reply by XXX"). Please translate the email into the language of the country (eg, French if you are contacting a researcher from AMU) and include also the English text at the end of the message.

Marc TABANI

Aix-Marseille University - Centre de Rechercche et de Documentation sur l'Oéanie (CREDO UMR 7308)

Scientific area : Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise : Kinship, cultural dimensions of classification and cognition, identity, Myth, ritual, symbolic representations, religious studies, Political systems and institutions, governance, Cultural memory, intangible cultural heritage, Prehistory, palaeoanthropology, palaeodemography, protohistory, Cultural history, History of collective identities and memories

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Yannick CARISSAN

Aix-Marseille University - Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (iSm2 - UMR7313)

Scientific area : Life Sciences (LIF) / Chemistry (CHE)

Expertise : Bioinorganic chemistry, Coordination chemistry, Chirality, Heterocyclic chemistry, Molecular architecture and structure, Natural product synthesis, Organic chemistry, Peptide chemistry, Organic reaction mechanisms, Supramolecular chemistry, Stereochemistry, Synthetic organic chemistry, Chemical reactions: mechanisms, dynamics, kinetics and catalytic reactions, Chromatography, Homogeneous catalysis, Method development in chemistry, Photocatalysis, Physical chemistry, Physical chemistry of biological systems, Quantum chemistry, Separation techniques/extraction, Spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques, Theoretical and computational chemistry, Surface chemistry, Biological chemistry, biochemistry, Graphene, carbon nanotubes, Green chemistryMolecular interactions, Protein synthesis, folding, modification and turnover, Metabolomics (including glycomics), Microbiology, Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, molecular diagnostic), Biocatalysis, synthetic biology, organocatalysis, metallocatalysis

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Alain Barrat

Aix-Marseille University - Centre de Physique Théorique CPT

Scientific area : Physics (PHY) / Mathematics (MAT) / Life Sciences (LIF)

Expertise : Mathematical physics, biophysics (affiliated to the Centuri Institute), interdisciplinary statistical physics, epidemiology, complex systems, complex networks

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Pascal Rihet

Aix-Marseille University - Theories and Approaches of Genomic Complexity (TAGC, U1090)

Scientific area : Life Sciences (LIF)

Expertise : Molecular interactions, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Epigenetics and gene regulation, Genetic epidemiology, Genomics and functional genomics, Genetic and genomic variation and related disorders, Biological systems analysis, modelling and simulation, Transcriptomics, Genome editing, Immunogenetics, Parasitology, Immunotherapy (vaccine discovery, genetic vaccines), Computational biology, Molecular genetics, reverse genetics and RNAi, Quantitative genetics, Cancer and its biological basis, Cardiovascular diseases, Biological basis of other immunity related disorders,

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Frederique Magdinier

Aix-Marseille University - La Timone, Faculty of Medical and paramedical sciences

Scientific area : Life Sciences (LIF)

Expertise : RNA synthesis, processing, modification and degradation, Bioinformatics, Applied genetic engineering, transgenic organisms, recombinant proteins, biosensors, Computational biology, Epigenetics and gene regulation, Genomics and functional genomics, Genetic and genomic variation and related disorders, Molecular genetics, reverse genetics and RNAi, Chromosome structure organisation and dynamics, Transcriptomics, Systems biology, Genome editing, Developmental biology and technology, Pattern formation and embryology in animal organisms, Stem cells and cellular programming, Cell differentiation, physiology and dynamics, Ageing, Rare/orphan Diseases, Endocrinology, Cardiovascular diseases, Neural development and neuroplasticity, Physiology of nerves and motor systems, Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, molecular diagnostic), Gene therapy, cell therapy, regenerative medicine,

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Nathalie Bonnardel

Aix-Marseille University - PSYCLE (research center on the Psychology of Cognition, Language and Emotion - UR 3273)

Scientific area : Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise : Development studies, Information & communication technology and the world of work, Information society and education, Crisis communication theory and procedures, Social communication, verbal and non verbal communication, Cognitive psychology: learning, cognition, Development across the life-span and developmental psychopathology, Ergonomics, human factors, user modelling, and neuroergonomics, Education systems, institutions and policies, sociology of education, Theories of conflict, violence and security, Negotiation and mediation, Work, employment, precariousness, Educational assessment, feedback, Learning technologies, e-learning, tutoring systems, learning analytics, Teaching and learning methodologies, pedagogy, andragogy, psychology of education, Visual arts, performing arts, film, design, Ageing, health social policies, Socio-cultural psychology and social cognition, Sports and entertainment law, Use of language: pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, second language teaching and learning, lexicography, terminology, Communication networks, media, including social media, information society Creativity, Human-Computer Interaction

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Tristan Vigliano

Aix-Marseille University - Aix-Marseille Interdisciplinary Center for Literature Studies, UR 4235, CIELAM

Scientific area : Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise : Literary theory and comparative literature, literary styles, Modern literature, African literature, Medieval literature, History of literature, Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Globalization, glocalization, antiglobalism, Migration, refugees, asylum, interethnic relations, conflicts and integration of migrants Creative writing , Travel writing , Ecocritic , Ecopoetic , Nature writing

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Vincent Hok

Aix-Marseille University - Laboratoire de Neuroscience Cognitive LNC, UMR 7291

Scientific area : Life Sciences (LIF) / Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise : Gender studies, Development studies, Biological psychology: mind-body connection, health, stress and disease, Cognitive psychology: learning, cognition, Development across the life-span and developmental psychopathology, Ergonomics, human factors, user modelling, and neuroergonomics, Evolution of mind and cognitive functions, animal communication, Formal, cognitive, functional and computational linguistics, Neuropsychology and neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: acquisition, comprehension , production, Social communication, verbal and non verbal communicationAgeing, Cognitive neuroscience (e.g. learning, memory, emotions, consciousness), Behavioural neuroscience (e.g. sleep, rhythms, speech, handedness), Sensory perception (nose and smell, tongue and taste, eyes and vision, ears and hearing, skin, pain, touch and movements), Psychiatric disorders and clinical psychology (e.g. schizophrenia, autism, Tourettes syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, addiction), Neurological disorders (e.g. Alzheimers disease, Huntingtons disease, Parkinsons disease), Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience, Physiology of nerves and motor systems, Molecular and cellular neuroscience, Neural development and neuroplasticity,

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Francesca Petrella

Aix-Marseille University - Faculty of Economics and Management/Faculty of Arts, Letters, Languages and Humanities/ Institute of Labor Economics and Industrial Sociology (LEST)

Scientific area : Economic Sciences (ECO) / Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise : Migration, refugees, asylum, interethnic relations, conflicts and integration of migrants, Qualitative methods, ethnography, case studies, Social economy, social entrepreneurship, Social integration, exclusion, inequalities, participation and prosocial behaviour, Sociology of education, Migration policy, Work, employment, precariousness, Transformation of societies, democratization, social movements,Social economics, welfare economics, Circular economy, Labour economics, Human resources management, Start-ups, new business models in entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship interdisciplinarity, international comparison

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Bénédicte gastineau

Aix-Marseille University - Population-Environment-Development Laboratory, LPED

Scientific area : Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Expertise :

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