Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1- Hosting offer for a MSCA Post-doctoral fellowship candidate i[...]

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Résumé du poste

A prestigious French university is inviting applications for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Laboratoire de Chimie Organique 2. The fellowship focuses on researching the origin of life and homochirality, lasting 12 to 36 months. Candidates will be supported throughout the application process and must submit a CV, motivation letter, and a research proposal. Applicants should possess a relevant PhD and have experience in chemistry. Interested candidates should include the position reference in their email title.

Prestations

Professional grant application support

Access to advanced research facilities

Qualifications

• Less than 8 years of post-PhD research experience is required.
• Proficiency in organic and systems chemistry is essential.

Responsabilités

• Conduct research on the origin of life and homochirality.
• Prepare a one-page research proposal related to systems chemistry.
• Receive supervision and support for grant application.

Connaissances

Research experience in chemistry

Understanding of Systems Chemistry

Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Knowledge of Nucleic Acids

Formation

PhD in a relevant field

MSc in Chemistry or related

Description du poste

Organisation / Company Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Department Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires, ICBMS – UMR5246 Laboratory LCO2 – Glyco-SysChem Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

With 62 laboratories and more than 7000 publications per year, and leading French university in terms of the number of patents filed in collaboration with industry, Lyon 1 contributes to scientific and innovation progress in numerous fields: health, mathematics, IT, physics, chemistry, earth and space sciences, life sciences, etc. Creator of emerging knowledge and new technologies, the University is consolidating its research excellence on a global and international level by developing inter- and multidisciplinary approaches targeting the major challenges facing today society.

Host research lab/team

The Laboratoire de Chimie Organique 2 (LCO2) is a leading research lab in Europe. The Laboratoire de Chimie Organique 2 is a team composed of three independently publishing research groups: "Methodology and Synthesis", "Systems Chemistry" and "Biological Membranes". The members of each research group collaborate in the team and complement each other's scientific work with know-how and instrumentation specific to each group.

The LCO2-SysChem research team focuses interests in Systems Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Peptides and Nucleic acid chemistry and uses, Phospholipids chemistry and uses, vaccines developments and Nanomedicine, Fluorophores preparation and cellular cartography.

Hosting Offer

The LCO2-SysChem at the Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires, ICBMS – UMR5246 offers to host a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship candidate (typically a post-doc of less than 8 years research experience since PhD defence), submitting an application to the next MSCA-2026-PF call for proposals (deadline 09th of September 2026), interested to work on the following research topic:

• Origin of life
• Homochirality emergence
• Protocell preparation

The fellowship could last for 12 to 36 months, depending on the type of Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Supervision

The successful Marie-Curie Post-doctoral fellow will be supervised by Michele Fiore, HDR, Associate Professor at the Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires, ICBMS – UMR5246. His research interests include Systems Chemistry, Prebiotic Systems Chemistry, Origin Of Life (OOL), Lipid and membranogenic compounds and protocells formation, autocatalysis, self-evolvable systems, peptide chemistry and nucleic acid chemistry.

Make sure that you include the reference to this offer in the title of your email. Please attach a CV, a motivation letter, your MSc marks, as well as a one-page research proposal in the frame of Homochirality emergence within origin of life and systems chemistry domain.

Professional grant application support

Candidates will receive the support of the supervisors, as well as online training from a professional grant application company, and advices from successful applicants, to prepare and submit their application with the Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires, ICBMS – UMR5246 located at the University of Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 as a host laboratory, to the next MSCA-PF call for proposals.