We fund five reserves who applied for funding from the EU’s MSCA programme

The Swedish Research Council has main responsibility for Swedish participation in the EU programme Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, MSCA. We have now decided to fund five of the researchers who did not receive funding from MSCA under the call Post Doctoral European Fellowship, but received the quality award Seal of Excellence. All the researchers have a Swedish host organisation that the Swedish Research Council has approved – a requirement for receiving funding from us.

EU made the decision on the call this spring. In total, 54 researchers with Swedish host institutions have now been awarded funding.

The grant funds activities in Sweden, and the grant period is 12–24 months. Researchers in all scientific fields can apply for the grant.

The following researchers will receive funding from the Swedish Research Council:

• Michael Quin, University of Gothenburg with the project: PlasmaHEP - Plasma-based source of high energy photons
• Vida Ranjabar, Chalmers University of Technology med projektet: HOLA-ISAC
• Bastien Dauphin, Umeå University with the project: WHISPER – Wall-integrated HIgh Sensitivity PERception
• Alba Escalera Balsera, Karolinska Institutet with the project: Stratifying Autism by Deciphering Genetic and Sensory Diversity
• Wout Magits, Karolinska Institutet with the project: Delivering a '1-2 punch' to RAS-driven cancers

The total funding for the five projects is nearly 16 million SEK.