3 to 5 Month Residency: Postdoctoral Residency at Iméra – « This is not another fellowship »

RESEARCHER PROFILE: Postdoc / R2: PhD holders 

RESEARCH FIELD(S)1: Agricultural sciences, Anthropology, Arts and Culture, Astronomy, Architecture and Design, Law, Linguistics, Medicine, Education, Psychology, Physics, Geoscience, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Business and Economics, Architecture, Arts, Astronomy, Biological sciences, Chemistry, Demography, Economics, Educational sciences, Environmental sciences, Geography, Information science, Juridical science, Language science, Management sciences, Medical sciences, Cultural studies,

JOB /OFFER DESCRIPTION

Are you a scholar under the age of 35 and currently doing your research under a postdoctoral fellowship contract with a university? If so, Iméra, The Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille Université offers you the possibility of spending from three to five months of your research contract in a unique work and living settings, where scientists and artists from all over the world and all disciplines significantly transform the most common frameworks for thought and action.

Why submit an application?

What difference can a residence make in an institute for advanced study for you? What particular experiences and offers can we provide?

• In a career phase of pressure, stress, new and time-consuming challenges, you will find space, time and support for research, intellectual and academic development.
• In a career phase when personal and scientific autonomy is undermined by overly close and conditional university ties, you will find individual freedom, independence and autonomy as a necessary basis for your research.
• In a career phase with a strong focus on individual success, you will find a scholar’s community, communication and possible new networks for your research. After a discipline-specific PhD, you will find interdisciplinarity, reflexivity, criticism and openness as driving factors of your research.

What can we offer you?

The opportunity to spend a short-term residency, from three to five months of your postdoctoral research at Iméra during the year 2025-26.

You will be provided with free accommodation in one of Iméra’s fourteen apartments, located in the Parc Longchamp in Marseille, one of the most fascinating and extreme cities in Europe:  a historical melting pot and a “refuge city”, “port city”, “transit city”, “Mediterranean city”. You will live and work in a small campus located on a hill where for centuries astronomers have observed and searched for comets, a few hundred meters from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Europe.

You will benefit from an office in an open co-working space.

You will participate to the CBS (Community Building Seminar), the only mandatory time of collective activity for each resident at Iméra, which takes place regularly during the year (3 hours on Thursday morning), intended as a moment of mutualization of knowledge, meetings and exchanges sometimes unexpected, a real collective intelligence device.

Website: https://www.imera.fr/en/applications/postdoctoral-residency-at-imera-this-is-not-another-fellowship/

TYPE OF CONTRACT: TEMPORARY / JOB STATUS: FULL TIME / HOURS PER WEEK 39

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10/01/2025

JOB NOT FUNDED THROUGH AN EU RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

WORK LOCATION(S): 

Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille Université, 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille, France

WHAT WE OFFER: 

The postdoctoral fellows benefit from travel expenses coverage and free accommodation on the Iméra site.

At Iméra, an office in a co-working space

Additional information: The Euraxess Center of Aix-Marseille Université informs foreign visiting professors, researchers, postdoc and PhD candidates about the administrative steps to be undertaken prior to arrival at AMU and the various practical formalities to be completed once in France: visas and entry requirements, insurance, help finding accommodation, support in opening a bank account, etc. More information on AMU EURAXESS Portal 

QUALIFICATIONS, REQUIRED RESEARCH FIELDS, REQUIRED EDUCATION LEVEL, PROFESSIONAL KILLS, OTHER RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible applicants must meet the following conditions:

• To be less than thirty-five years old;
• To have a postdoctoral contract at the time of the residency, which enables a research residency abroad of at least three months;
• Must not have lived in France for more than twelve months within the three years prior to this call for applications.

REQUESTED DOCUMENTS OF APPLICATION, ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, SELECTION PROCESS

For preparing your application and learning about the conditions of the residency, please ensure you read the PDF document accessible below as well as the information on the research program(s) to which the residency you are interested in is attached.

Applications are evaluated based on, but not limited to the following criteria:

• Quality of research;
• Future potential;
• Creative originality;
• Ready to use scientific and intellectual freedom – not only solving research established questions;
• Openness and non-discipline-specific curiosity – avoiding an overly narrow focus on one’s discipline.

The online application file consists of the following documents:

• Complete the application form (including mandatory fields);
• Upload a curriculum vitae including a list of publications (maximum three pages);
• Upload your postdoctoral research contract for us to confirm your eligibility status;
• Upload your best article;
• Upload a presentation of the research project to be carried out during the residency (maximum five pages) followed by a selective bibliography;
• Indicate and justify which of Iméra’s four research programs is the most appropriate for your research project: 
  • Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge
  • Interdisciplinary Explorations
  • Mediterranean
  • Necessary Utopias

Timeline

• Application deadline: January 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM (French time).

The results will be known by early March.

Research contacts 

• Enrico Donaggio (academic director) : enrico.donaggio@univ-amu.fr
• Constance Moréteau (research coordinator) : constance.moreteau@univ-amu.fr

HOW TO APPLY: constance.moreteau@univ-amu.fr