Hi all,

Here are some pieces of information that we hope you will find useful.

• Graziano Carriero, a PhD student from University of Basilicata (Unibas), will visit us from September until February. He arrived last week and is hosted by Yiannis. He shares office with Anton.
• Bassam Bamieh from University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) will visit us for a month in October.
• Enrico Bini from University of Turino will visit us next week. From 2012-2014, he was Marie-Curie IEF fellow at the department.
  

Received funding

• Björn and Kristian have attracted about 0.5 MSEK for lab development w.r.t. digitalization. The plan is to use it, e.g., for basic course lab development.

Open calls

• EU
• MSCA Staff Exchanges, 19/9 2024-5/2 2025.
  
• MSCA COFUND 2025 opens 23 January 2025.
• The European Research Council:
• ERC Proof of Concept 17 September 2024. (Be quick :))
  
• ERC Starting Grant 15 October 2024.
• ERC Consolidator Grant opens 26 september.
• ERC Synergy Grant 6 November.
• ERC Additional opportunities
• The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation:
• Postdoctoral Fellowships at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.
• Scholarship Program for Postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.
• Postdoctoral Scholarship at Stanford University, USA, 18/10 - 15/11 2024.
• Nomination to Wallenberg Academy Fellows, 7/1-15/2 2025.
• The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund:
• Horizon, 16 September. (Be quick :))
  
• Research grant for assistant professors (BUL), 25 September.
• Walter Gyllenberg Foundation, 25 September.
• Donations for science, medicine and technology - Technology 25 September.
• Märta and Erik Holmberg's donation 25 September.
• Torsten and Karin Almén Foundation 1 December.
• Travel grants for young researchers.
• The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research:
• Research Institute Doctorate 29 November.
• The Swedish Research Council:
• International Postdoc in Science and Engineering 21 August - 17 September.
• Research Infrastructure of National Interest 4/12 2024-18/2 2025.
• LU
• Invite junior researcher from Singapore, Berkeley eller Melbourne, September 30.
• WASP
• Industrial PhD Student Positions 2024, October 1
• Industrial Postdoc Positions 2024, October 1
• Call for Joint WASP and DDLS NESTs, October 30
• Call for WASP-WISE Pilot projects 2024, November 8
• Call for WASP-WISE NESTs 2024, December 1
• Affiliated WASP PhD student positions, opens September 16 and closes October 31
• WASP International Postdoctoral Scholarships, opens October 16 and closes November 15
• Other sources
• The Sweden-America Foundation for PhD studies and postdoctoral research in North America. 16 September.
  
• Horizon Europe Workshop for early career researchers from LU, Imperial College, and KU Leuven. Workshop 27–28 November 2024. Deadline 20 September.

(Let us know if you know of other relevant calls.)

Miscellaneous

• Charging of e-bike batteries. Three sets of lockers will be put in place in September for storing and charging e-bike batteries. The lockers will be located outside the E Building (ready to use), the A Building, and Kemicentrum and can be used by staff and students.
• The PhD day will be organized by Anton and Yde.
  

Best,

Karl-Erik, Eva, Pontus