Advance your Research Career with Europe

INVITATION:

Join us for EURAXESS event “Advance your Research Career with Europe" co-organised by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The experience-sharing workshop will introduce hands-on information by outstanding researchers’ who carry out their research between Europe and China.

All speakers will give their thoughts and advice on how to develop research careers with EU funding within the framework of European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), two prestigious funding instruments under Horizon 2020, the EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

The event is for researchers of all career stages (incl. PhD students and up), all nationalities and all research fields (incl. social sciences and humanities), who are interested in pursuing their careers within Sino-European research networks, as well as for research-related professionals from universities, research institutions or funding agencies from Shanghai and beyond.

The event will help build awareness about researcher mobility opportunities offered by European Commission.

It will also offer a unique opportunity to network with the community of Chinese and expatriate European researchers.

This event is for free. Please register by clicking the green "Register" button and filling in the information.

Please address Andrea Střelcová, EURAXESS China, on china(at)euraxess.net for questions.

Agenda:

13.30 – 14.00 – Registration

14.00 – 14.20 Opening

• Prof Li Weidong, Deputy Director of Research Management Division, SJTU
• Ms Andrea Střelcová – EURAXESS China representative - introduction to event
• Dr Laurent Bochereau – Science Counsellor, EU Delegation to China (EU funding – ERC and MSCA within the context of H2020)

14.20 – 15.20 Part 1 (ERC): European Research Council: Opening up new frontiers in academic research between Europe and China

• 14.20 – 14.40 Testimonial by Dr Manuel Perez Garcia (Renmin University of China/Universidad Pablo Olavide Sevilla; ERC Starting Grant holder): “How to prepare a winning ERC proposal from China”
• 14.40 – 15.00 Testimonial by Dr Eugene Ch’ng (University of Nottingham Ningbo China; part of ERC Advanced Grant research team)“How to participate on ERC projects from China”
• 15.00 – 15.20 Q & A

15.20 – 15.40 Coffee break

15.40 – 16.30 Part 2 (MSCA): Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: EU-China Mobility Fellowships

• 15.40 – 15.50 Testimonial by Dr Ludovico Dreni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) “How to apply for MSCA Global Fellowship and come to China”
• 15.50 - 16.10 Testimonial by Dr Jin Bao (University of Science and Technology) “How to Apply for MSCA European Fellowship and go to Europe”
• 16.10 – 16.30 – Q & A

16.30 – 17.00 Conclusion, announcements

SPEAKERS' PROFILES

Prof Dr Manuel Peréz García’s main interest lies in consumer behaviour and trade networks in Mediterranean Europe, circulation of exotic goods such as tea, silk and porcelain from India and China. He has been based in China since 2011, firstly working at Tsinghua University, and later, in 2013, he moved to Renmin University of China where he is fully based as faculty staff member. He founded the Global History Network in China (GHN) and as a first (European) researcher who won funding from the European Research Council applying from China. Dr. Pérez García was awarded the ERC grant in December 2015 with his project “GECEM: Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840”, in which the Universidad Pablo Olavide (UPO) of Seville (Spain) will act as the European host institution.

Dr Eugene Ch’ng is an associate professor in computer science and deputy director for the International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC) Digital Economy Strand at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China campus. He leads the Big Data and Visual Analytics Research Lab at Nottingham’s China campus. Eugene is also an associate scientist for the Nvidia APJ Technology Centre in Singapore. Eugene’s research has an overarching theme in Complex Systems Science related to the reconstruction and modelling of terrestrial, social, behavioural, political and virtual landscapes. Dr Ch’ng is part of the research team of ERC Advanced Grant project of Prof Vincent Gaffney (University of Bedford, UK) “Europe’s Lost Frontiers” that searches for evidence of Stone Age human activity on Britain’s very own ‘Atlantis’ – a vast prehistoric land, once located between England and southern Scandinavia, which was engulfed by rising sea levels some 7500 years ago.

Dr Ludovico Dreni ‎is a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Spanish Council for Scientific Research and Shanghai Jiao Tong University - ‎Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP). He is based at the Laboratory of Plant Developmental Biology of Prof. Dabing Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Proposal title: “Carpel evolution: a walk in the rice side” (acronym "RiceStyle"). His research interest focus on the transcription factors regulating carpel development in rice and in other model plants, in their functional conservation and in understanding the importance that they had for the evolution of angiosperm plants.

Dr. Jin Bao is an associated professor in University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. She was trained as an engineer in Zhejiang University and then moved to Tsinghua University for graduate studies in physics. In Tsinghua University, she was a teaching assistant for a German professor, from whom she learned about Europe, European Union, European culture and scientific research. Later she became a PhD student of international Max-Planck Research School in Goettingen, Germany. From there Dr. Jin Bao started her research career in neuroscience, and discovering the whole Europe. After her PhD, she applied for a Marie-Curie fellowship to continue her research in Dr. Alain Marty’s lab in Paris. Dr Bao has settled down in her hometown, Hefei, and is working in the USTC’s school of life sciences, laboratory of brain function and brain disease.

ABOUT EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL

The European Research Council (ERC) is the EU’s top funding body, encouraging the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding. ERC supports bottom-up driven, frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence.

ABOUT MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) provide grants for all stages of researchers' careers - be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers - and encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. The MSCA enable research-focused organisations (universities, research centres, and companies) to host talented foreign researchers and to create strategic partnerships with leading institutions worldwide.

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