Faculty of Health Sciences and Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA Organisation / Company University of Granada Department Nursing Laboratory Faculty of Health Sciences and Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Nursing. Professor Rafael A. Caparros-Gonzalez, from the Department of Nursing at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidatesinterested inapplying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF)in 2026 at this University.

Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2026 call, please consult this link ). Brief description of the institution: The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With more than 57,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and almost 7,000 members of staff, the UGR offers 97 undergraduate degrees, 157 master’s degrees (7 of which are double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers.

Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain. The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflectsthe institution’s commitment to continuously improve its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.



The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D; projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2025 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 301-400th position in the world and as the 3-8 highest ranked University in Spain, reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research.
From the perspective of specialist areas in the ARWU rankings, the UGR is outstanding in Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Dentistry & Oral Sciences (ranked between 51th-75th position), Computer Science & Engineering, Education and Hospitality & Tourism Management (between 76-100th position), and in the areas of Food Science & Technology and Business Administration (between 101-150th position).
A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in the areas of Earth Sciences, Law, Management, Nursing, Psychology and Statistics,



in which the UGR is positioned in the 151-200th position. Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union.
For the duration of the prevoius Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a totalof124 projectswith a total funding of more than€30 million. For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained136 projects, so far, with a total funding of more than€38 million.
Brief description of the Centre/Research Group: Research group focusing on health care with a special interest on: 1) Interventions and outcomes in health care. Objective: Generate interventions and treatments to increase the health outcomes of vulnerable populations.
a) Develop a nutritional intervention for overweight hospitalized people; b) Generate an intervention to increase the medical and psychological health of pregnant women and their newborns; c) Implement a program for care and assistance in grief and at the end of life.

2) Biopsychosocial and cultural factors in health organization and transfer of knowledge to clinical practice. Objective: Generation and development of data to improve the health of people at risk. a) Nutritional, medical and psychological evaluation of the health of hospitalized people through the use of Tanita, cortisol and interview; b) Analyze the level of the biomarker cortisol in hair and maternal psychopathology in the #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Nursing.
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