This program focuses on women at post-doctoral level who have great scientific potential. In concrete terms, the chosen candidates will benefit from a position as "maître assistante" for a period of three years, attached directly to faculties’ deans offices in order to ensure the independence of the researchers. Whilst they are in principle full-time, these posts entail at most 20 % teaching or clinical work. During the programme the grantholders should be capable of satisfying, for example, the conditions for obtaining a grant for a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Selection criteria
The application will allow the organisers to judge the candidate’s potential in terms of:
Personal and scientific ability to plan and successfully complete a project over three years;
Potential for a high-level university career;
Quality of her scientific research;
Scientific independence;
Mobility;
Good scientific and personal integration in the unit in which she will work.
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