• CRAG is offering a 4-year predoctoral grant part of the "National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability in R+D+i" (FPI fellowships).
• These fellowships are awarded to Plan Estatal project (PREP) from the 2022 call:  PID2022-136834OB-I00.
• The recruitment of fellows consists in an open and international student selection process according to the selection criteria indicated below:

Criteria selection for FPI fellowships 2022

The criteria for evaluation will be:

• Criterion 1. Academic and/or scientific-technical trajectory of the candidate (up to 50 points)
  • Sub criterion 1 a) Scientific-technical contributions (up to 45 points). The academic record and other curricular merits of the candidate will be evaluated, as well as his/her adequacy to the tasks to be carried out based on training and professional experience in the fields of genetics, molecular biology and animal sciences.
  • Sub criterion 1.b): Mobility and internationalization (up to 5 points). Stays

in national and international centers and/or in the industrial sector and their relevance and impact on the career research of the candidates will be considered. The scientific prestige of the host institution and the scientific activities carried out there will be also taken into account.

• Criterion 2. Adequacy of the candidate to the research activities to be carried out (up to 50 points). The adequacy of the candidate to the program, project or research activities to develop based on their previous training and experience on genomics, animal breeding, bioinformatics, molecular genetics and related fields will be considered. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of the tasks associated with the project on the scientific career of the candidates as well as on the fostering of the research done by the hosting team and CRAG.

Requirements to apply:

Candidates must hold a degree that allows admission to the official doctoral program at the time to join the host institution (it is not requested the candidate to hold the degree when the candidate applies).

Application submission

Applications will be submitted via the CRAG Jobs application: https://recruitment.cragenomica.es/

Documents required:

-Curriculum Vitae *

-Higher education qualifications*

-Higher education academic transcripts in English (if different from Catalan, Spanish or English).

Deadline for submission of applications: February 27, 2025.

The contract/publication/output/outcome/equipment/video/activity/other is part of the grant AID REFERENCE, funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ESF+’,

Evaluation and selection.

Evaluation Process:

-Eligibility check: HHRR staff at CRAG will check the eligibility of the applications received.

-Assessment process: applications will be evaluated by the principal investigator (PI). The PI could ask for an interview to selected candidates.

Following the assessment process, the PI will select the candidate.