Description

Dr. Orkun Hasekioğlu, Director of the TBAE, welcomes postdoctoral candidates interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) call 2025 at this Institute. For more information about the MSCA-PF 2025 call, please consult this link.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) programme is a famous EU-funded scheme. It offers talented scientists a unique chance to participate in two-year research and training projects with the support of a supervising team. Besides providing an attractive grant, it represents a major opportunity to boost the career of promising researchers. The final proposal submission deadline to the programme for this year’s call is on the 10th of September 2025. 

TUBITAK TBAE is expecting postdoctoral researchers to submit applications to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025 in the topics mentioned below.

• About TUBITAK

TÜBİTAK conducts research and development (R&D) activities. The primary mission of these institutes is to conduct basic and applied research in the field of positive sciences for public and private sector organizations. Many of the projects are carried out in collaboration with universities. Additionally, there are units that facilitate R&D activities in terms of function.

• About TBAE:

TÜBİTAK Research Institute for Fundamental Sciences (TBAE) is a research institute that supports knowledge production in basic sciences, conducts studies and encourages interdisciplinary romance. As TBAE, it aims to understand the universe and the laws of nature more economically and to provide scientific formations and technological services to society through studies conducted in basic science fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.

 Research fields:

1. Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Chemistry, Physical Chemistry of Biological Systems
2. Protein folding - OCW
3. IDP and soft robotics - OCW
4. Inorganic and nuclear chemistry
5. Radiation and Nuclear Chemistry
6. Radiopharmaceuticals
7. Applied and Industrial Chemistry: Porous materials
8. Quantum Computation and Communications
9. Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, LLMs, multi agent systems
10. Complexity and cryptography, electronic security, privacy, biometrics
11. Drug development (clinical phases)
12. Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
13. Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Physics
14. Nuclear Physics:
15. Fusion
16. Fission
17. Observational Astronomy: cosmic rays, neutrinos
18. Optics laser and quantum
19. Photonics
20. Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
21. Condensed matter physics: Superconductivity
22. Cosmology
23. Exoplanets
24. High energy astrophysics, detectors
25. Nuclear astrophyscis
26. Communication Systems
27. Computational Modeling
28. Photonic integrated circuits:
29. Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena, superconductivity
30. Statistical Physics - Phase Transitions, complex systems
31. Philosophy

Basic eligibility conditions for MSCA postdoctoral researchers:

Before starting your application process please double-check the following eligibility criteria of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call 2025

• Have a Ph.D awarded before the call deadline (10th September 2025)
• Have less than 8 years of research experience after your PhD
• Comply with the mobility rule: you must not have resided or carried out your main activity in TÜRKİYE for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline (10 September 2025)

Requirements 

• Must be high performing, propose and manage new proposals and projects in one of the specified research areas
• Have experience in writing project proposals
• Knowledge of the international literature on the chosen thought current within the research field. 

Contact information: 

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents to Dr. Orkun Hasekioğlu orkun.hasekioglu@tubitak.gov.tr and to tbae.iletisim@tubitak.gov.tr

Application process

We encourage all motivated and eligible postdoctoral researchers to send their expressions of interest before 23 June 2025. Your application shall include:

• a CV detailing: (i) for each position you had, the exact dates and location (country) and (ii) a list of accepted publications;
• a research project proposal (up to 2 pages) containing the candidate's ideas for the research project.
• The ‘Declaration of Eligibility MSCA-PF’ filled and signed.

TUBITAK will choose the best candidates to be hosted and will contact those and actively support their application.  

Estimated timetable

• Deadline for sending an expression of interest: 23 June 2025
• Selection of the applicant: 7 July 2025 at the latest
• Writing the MSCA-PF proposal with the support of the supervisor(s): 7 July – 10 September 2025
• MSCA-PF 2025 call deadline: 10th September 2025
• Publication of the MSCA-PF evaluation results: February 2026
• Start of the MSCA-PF project (if funded):  May 2026 (at the earliest)