The laureates of the CIVIS3i Second Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships are finally selected! After a difficult choice among the 34 pre-selected outstanding candidates and projects, 17 international researchers will begin their research projects at the four CIVIS3i partner Universities soon: five at Aix Marseille University in France, five at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, four at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and three at Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy.
The 17 researchers were selected by independent, international, evaluators from a pool of nearly 150 individuals. The laureates will come to the CIVIS3i Universities to carry out their research projects until January 2024. The second evaluation stage, an interview with the Selection Committee, was very challenging as there were 34 excellent shortlisted candidates for 17 fellowships. The evaluators assessed projects in three main categories – excellence, impact and feasibility. Each project also had to pass an ethical evaluation.
Funding was awarded to 9 interdisciplinary projects in Social Sciences and Humanities (Political Science; Archaeology and Chemistry, Classical Archaeology; Archaeology, Ancient DNA and Environmental Sciences; Phylosophy and Economics; Culture; Environmental Social Sciences), and 8 interdisciplinary projects in Exact Sciences (Neuroscience; Structural Biology; Immunology; Medicine; Mathematics; Physics; Physics and Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Chemistry and Environmental Sciences).
The second cohort of CIVIS3i fellows are 11 men and 6 women comprising 10 nationalities, from Europe, the Americas and Western Asia.
The table below contains the final ranking list of the Second Call with the final results (projects selected for funding, projects in the reserve list and projects not retained).
| Recruiting University | Application ID | Name | Project acronym | Final score | Rank | Decision |
| Aix Marseille University | 132 | Davide Reato | ELECTROSTATE | 118.50 | 1 | Selected for funding |
| Aix Marseille University | 240 | Ana Devic | MemorAct | 116.75 | 2 | Selected for funding |
| Aix Marseille University | 101 | Sumesh Sasidharan | MYOCAR3 | 115.00 | 3 | Selected for funding |
| Aix Marseille University | 288 | francesca coletti | FABRIC_ID | 112.73 | 4 | Selected for funding |
| Aix Marseille University | 412 | Giustino De Michele | DEED | 112.67 | 5 | Selected for funding |
| Aix Marseille University | 45 | Andreia Rodrigues | MerSeFood | 112.57 | 6 | Reserve list |
| Aix Marseille University | 348 | daniel-joseph macarthur-seal | EMeNTAP | 112.33 | 7 | Reserve list |
| Aix Marseille University | 403 | Cristobal Cerda | Onco immune evasion | 109.67 | 8 | Reserve list |
| Aix Marseille University | 216 | Emily Cottrell | QuraBib | 109.58 | 9 | Reserve list |
| Aix Marseille University | 283 | Juan Javier Rivera Andia | O.O. | 105.58 | 10 | Not selected for funding |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 304 | Blanca Gonzalez | REACT-Seafood | 118.75 | 1 | Selected for funding |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 180 | Christian Mazet | PoTS | 115.58 | 2 | Selected for funding |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 433 | houman alimoradi | SyNeRgIC | 115.00 | 3 | Selected for funding |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 363 | George Chiduza | HATinASD | 112.77 | 4 | Selected for funding |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 162 | elena apostoli cappello | ISLE | 111.65 | 5 | Reserve list |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 163 | Sadia Agsous-Bienstein | AFAC | 111.50 | 6 | Reserve list |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 146 | Lotte Pummerer | CAUSEIDENT | 106.43 | 7 | Reserve list |
| Université libre de Bruxelles | 108 | Vinícius De Morais Gomes | LACMETAT1D | 100.23 | 8 | Not selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 314 | Ruth Tichauer | QOMQER | 114.33 | 1 | Selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 128 | Edouardos Loukopoulos | AQUASORB | 113.48 | 2 | Selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 76 | ELIA ROMERA | Gendering AntiFranco | 111.33 | 3 | Selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 231 | Luca Volpi | EnEAp | 109.90 | 4 | Selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 126 | Felipe Abellan | RTDmol | 106.33 | 5 | Selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 245 | Andrei Egorov | DMLG | 104.32 | 6 | Reserve list |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 274 | Caspar Groiseau | SQRT | 103.93 | 7 | Reserve list |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 300 | Camila Andrea Palla | 3DP-SUPERFOODS | 103.85 | 8 | Reserve list |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 308 | Rosa Maria Voghon Hernández | Diasporas-TRANSACT | 103.58 | 9 | Not selected for funding |
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 268 | Nadezda Konyushikhina | GSLDCS | 101.87 | 10 | Not selected for funding |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 327 | Gonzalo Oteo-García | V2O | 118.00 | 1 | Selected for funding |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 346 | Daria Dyakonova | TNCWN | 117.50 | 2 | Selected for funding |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 303 | Antonio Michele Miti | MultiSymORI | 114.30 | 3 | Selected for funding |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 358 | Borja González Rabanal | FIND-US | 108.48 | 4 | Reserve list |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 7 | Eduard Iricinschi | FERMENT | 107.75 | 5 | Reserve list |
| Sapienza Università di Roma | 311 | Francesco Valletta | CLEAV-DIV | 105.75 | 6 | Not selected for funding |
