The UAB receives seven MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowships

Seven UAB projects have received MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF) funding under the MSCA-PF-2022 call of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. The projects last from two to three years and are awarded to experienced researchers with the aim of developing their research project and improving their training skills. 

The awarded projects are:

• CHAOS: Computational Studies on Heterogeneous Astrocatalysis of Space-Abundant Transition Metals. The project’s principal investigator is Albert Rimola, from the Quantumgrain group of the Department of Chemistry, and the beneficiary is Gerard Pareras. The project will be conducted at the Department of Chemistry and will last two years.
• CripRJ: Advancing Crip Reproductive Justice: Understanding women with intellectual disabilities' experiences of reproductive control in Spain. The principal investigator is Diana Marre, from the AFIN research group of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the beneficiary is  Hannah Gibson. The project will be developed in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and will last two years.
• CryOVAlue: A political economy of ova banking in Spain and Ukraine. The principal investigator is Diana Marre, from the AFIN research group of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the beneficiary is Polina Vlasenko. The project will be developed in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and will last two years.
• PnocMDDSex: Sex differences in BNST prepronociceptin-expressing neurons in modulating chronic stress-induced depressive-like behaviour in mice. The principal investigator is Raül Andero, from the Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory Laboratory of the Institute of Neuroscience at the UAB, and the beneficiary is Antonio Luis Florido. The project will be developed at the Institute of Neuroscience for one year, and then at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for two more years.
• PostReNex: Tackling the paradox of growth and sustainability - A SDG indicator framework for water, energy, land, and materials based on postgrowth and resource nexus thinking. The principal investigator of this project is Giorgos Kallis, from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), and the beneficiary is Theodoros Semertzidis. The project will be developed at the ICTA-UAB and will last two years.
• PURC: The Politics of Urban Regime Construction in Spain: 2015-2019. The principal investigator of the project is Ismael Blanco, from the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP), and the beneficiary is Adrián Bua Roberts. The project will be developed at the IGOP and will last two years.
• REFUTURE: The most important think tank you’ve never heard of: Resources for the Future and the history of economic thought in environmental practice. The principal investigator of the project is Giorgos Kallis, from the ICTA-UAB, and the beneficiary is Richard Lane. The project will be developed at the ICTA-UAB for one year and at the Center for the History of Political Economy at the Duke University (EE.UU), for 18 months.