CRAG is offering a 4 years predoctoral grant part of the "National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability in R+D+i" (FPI fellowships). These fellowships are awarded to “Knowledge Generation Projects” and actions for the training of predoctoral research staff associated with these projects (PREP2025) from the 2025 call: PID OB-C31 Plant-Virus-Vector Interactions Knowledge-based Innovative Control Strategies.(PLANT-ViVe). The recruitment of fellows consists in an open and international student selection process according to the selection criteria indicated below: Criteria selection for FPI fellowships 2025
The criteria for evaluation will be:
Criterion 1. Academic and/or scientific-technical trajectory of the candidate (up to 50 points) Sub criterion 1 a) Scientific-technical contributions (up to 45 points). It will be valued academic record and other curricular merits of the candidate, as well as the adequacy of the same to the tasks to be carried out based on the training and professional experience. Sub criterion 1.b):
Mobility and internationalization (up to 5 points). It will be valued relevance and impact on their research career of the candidate's stays in national and international centers and/or in the industrial sector, attending to the prestige of the entity receiving the stay and the activity carried out. Criterion 2. Adequacy of the candidate to the research activities to be carried out (up to 50 points). The adequacy of the candidate to the program, project or research activities to develop based on their training and experience previous. For this, the added value that the realization of the project will represent for his research career, as well as the value contributed to the center and to the hosting team. About Us: Plant viruses pose a significant threat to agriculture and food security, accounting for half of plant diseases. Our team works in different aspects of virus biology, including interference with vector-mediated transmi