Marie Curie Post-doc Positions in Germany, Template Marie Curie Post-doc Positions in Germany 2014/20151: “Expression of Interest” for hosting Marie Curie Fellows This template should be used by institutions interested in hosting post-doctoral fellows within the Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship programme. Hosts should be located in Germany. 1. Interested institution (legal person): Institut für Verbundwerkstoff (Institute for Composite Materials), Kaiserslautern, Germany The IVW GmbH is an internationally operating non-profit R&D organization of RhinelandPalatinate. We develop composites with thermoplastic and thermoset polymers as well as with functionalized fiber- and particle- reinforcements. Composites enable advantages for applications in automotive, aerospace, machine building industry, energy, construction, sports and recreation, medical engineering and many other sectors. 2. Institute/Department: Post-doc fellowships can be performed in any of our competence fields: - Design of Composite Structures - Crash and Energy Absorption (Modeling, Simulation and Testing) - Fatigue & Fatigue Life Analysis - Impregnation and Joining Technologies - Press Technologies - Process Simulation - Roving and Tape Processing - Tailored & Smart Composites - Tailored Thermosets & Biomaterials - Tribology - Material Analytics 1 Deadline of the next call for proposals for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships: 11 September 2014, 17:00 Brussels time Marie Curie Post-doc Positions in Germany, Template 3. Position, scientific requirements, topic, discipline*: Post-doc Position, Polymer Composites *Please tick: (according to scientific subject areas, defined by the German Research Foundation) Life Sciences X Natural Sciences X Engineering Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities 4. Contact person: (name and e-mail address) Dr.-Ing. Birgit Bittmann Erwin-Schrödinger-Str., Geb. 58 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany E-Mail: birgit.bittmann(at)ivw.uni-kl.de Tel: +49 (0) 631 2017 427 Fax: +49 (0) 631 2017 199 Internet: http://www.ivw.uni-kl.de/index.php?id=37&L=1 5. Deadline** for considering interests by postdoctoral applicants: **Please consider that the preparation of a Marie Curie proposal requires some time. Fellow and supervisor have to agree on a project and training opportunities for the fellow. If you want to extend your expression of interest to the second deadline in 2015 (September 10), just leave this column open.