Call for Expression of Interest for MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships at UNIGE – N. 21 Safety and S[...]

Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering

Organisation / Company: University of Genoa

Description: Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

The University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025. Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the funding schemes of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.

The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs. The research projects will have 2- or 3-year durations.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.

The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@UniGe. Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.

The masterclass will take place on May/June 2025.

MSCA domain: Information Science and Engineering (ENG)

Research Project Description:

1. AI Attacks and Defenses: mechanisms behind evasion and poisoning attacks against artificial intelligence.
2. Secure AI for Cybersecurity: AI-driven cybersecurity solutions to detect threats and vulnerabilities.
3. Large Language Models Security: techniques to assess the robustness of Large Language Models.

The sAIfer Lab is a virtual lab founded to strengthen and expand the activities of the two founding partners, the PRA Lab and the SmartLab, in the strategic areas of AI and Cybersecurity. The Lab has a special focus on the development of safe and secure AI systems that ensure no unintentional or intentional harm can occur to people, IT systems, society, and critical infrastructures.

Application:

An expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Fabio Roli (fabio.roli@unige.it, Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4103-9190) by 5th May 2025.
Your file should contain the following elements:

For MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.

More info on MSCA PF at the following link: