is currently a Post Doc. Group leader at the University of Potsdam in Germany, paid for with a five year personal grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research. His group is working on new materials for dielectric elastomer actuators, which might in the future be used "artificial muscles". He was born in Glostrup, Denmark, and lived his first four years in Bruxelles, when his mother was working as a secretary in the EEC. After receiving his Doctorate from the Danish Technical University, Denmark, he worked for one year at the Danish Institute for Fundamental Metrology, then for two years as Assistant Professor at Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines, teaching undergraduate students in both the physics and chemistry departments. 2006-2007 he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Potsdam.
has just completed her PhD in molecular pharmacology at the University of Catania (Italy) and she is currently collaborating with the Dept. of Biology at the University of Catania. She graduated in Biology at the University of Catania in 2001 with a thesis in molecular genetics. After graduation, she moved to France and worked at Institut Cochin in Paris. She then moved back to Italy and started a PhD in November 2003. In 2004 she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (FP6-EST) which she spent at CNRS in Villejuif (Paris-France). Her current research is focused on RNAi (RNA interference).
is currently holding an Incoming International Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where he studied biophysics at KarazinKharkivNatl.University. In 2005 he got PhD from the same university and moved to Finland. He started his MC Fellowship in March 2007 on the Medical Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His current work is focused on interactions of lipid membranes with peptides or short proteins in view of their role in the mechanisms of innate immunity (against bacteria, fungi, viruses) and in some pathologies related to amyloid deposition (diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, scrapie, etc.).
graduated in Physics from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD from Université Paris Sud and Università di Firenze. During one more year in Florence, he was a research assistant funded by a Research and Training Network (FP5) and became a member of MCFA. After a stay at ImperialCollege, London, and a CNES research fellowship, he is now a CNRS researcher at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. He is working on turbulence in the solar corona and the solar wind.
is since its foundation director of ENVIROpro – European Environmental Project Management, Germany (www.enviro-pro.eu). She studied Geological Sciences at the ComplutenseUniversity in Madrid and made in 1992 her doctoral thesis in the framework of an ECSC project. After her PhD, she went in 1994 to Germany with a post-doc DAAD fellowship and stay at the same research institute (www.fehs.de) further with a Marie Curie individual fellowship. Since her arrival to Germany she has been working also at the women network Connecta – Das Frauennetzwerk e.V. in the area of Gender Mainstreaming. After her Marie Curie Fellowship she jointed as active member the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA). Last year she was treasurer and previously member of the MCFA Advisory Board.
is a former Marie Curie Fellow (EIF 2005-2007) and a current holder of a Marie Curie ERG at University College London where she have been recently appointed as a Lecturer in Bioengineering. She is also the PI and coordinator of "MeDDiCA", a Marie Curie Initial Training Network to start in 2009. She has also been recently appointed as the Coordinator of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence, an initiative funded by the EC.
She was the Vice-Chair of the MCFA during 2006-2007 and played a central role in rebuilding the MCFA in its present form. She was also an active member of the Women in Science working group.
is an Italian citizen and former EIT Fellow of Marie Curie. She is graduated in Computing, and spent 20 years in industrial research and 4 years in academic research. Gianna is currently working at Innova Puglia SpA, the in-house company of Apulia Region to promote Technology Transfer and Innovation to PAs. She is leading researcher in Mobile Learning and has large experience as project manager of European R&D projects in Software Engineering, Mobile Telecommunication, Multimedia and Education. She serves the EU Commission and other regional agencies of research as Independent expert evaluator. She was awarded a HCM (Human Capital and Mobility) fellowship of 18 months at ImperialCollege, London, UK, as experienced researcher, in Software Engineering. Gianna is currently interested to investigate how scientific mobility can enhance the career of women in SET, and founded to this purpose mobile Women in Science and Technology (m-WiSET) Working Group in MCFA, and ITWIIN (Italian Women Innovators and Investors Network) www.itwiin.it , the Italian branch of the European EUWIIN.
is an Italian citizen, who, after the PhD in Materials Science, has decided to experience the mobility of researchers within Europe (for the moment) and so make a sweeping change in the lives of husband and kids. After spending three years in Germany, first with a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and then at the University of Bochum as research assistant, she has got the Marie Curie fellowship at EMPA in Duebendorf near Zurich in the Division of Hydrogen & Energy since September 2007. EMPA is the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Research and Testing, a research institute of the ETH domain in Switzerland. Riccarda's research interest is the field of First-principles calculations in materials science, and in particular in quantum theory and modelling of materials with specific properties on demand.
graduated in chemistry (spectroscopic methods) from "Université Pierre et Marie Curie," with a thesis in NMR methodology for the study of biomolecular assemblies. Thanks to a one year ESR Marie Curie fellowship (2005-2006) she participated to the study of the magnetocaloric effect in molecule-based magnets at the "Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia", in Italy. Afterwards she has been appointed in Germany as a team member of a Marie Curie Exellence grant team at the "Universität Duisburg-Essen" (2006-2009), to be involved in the study of nanoparticle-based diluted magnetic semiconductors as a PhD work. Unfortunately she had to quit her position.
is an Indian national. From February 2008, she have joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the Marie Curie Research Training Network in the Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands. She is a bioinorganic chemist and now during this Marie Curie training fellowship she have switched to biophysics. Nusrat studies the electron transfer and tunnelling properties of molecularly wired metalloproteins to the surface.
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