MSCA programme in HE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fund excellent research and innovation and equip researchers at all stages of their career with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. The MSCA help build Europe’s capacity for research and innovation by investing in the long-term careers of excellent researchers.

The MSCA also fund the development of excellent doctoral and postdoctoral training programmes and collaborative research projects worldwide. By doing so, they achieve a structuring impact on higher education institutions, research centres and non-academic organisations.

The MSCA promote excellence and set standards for high-quality researcher education and training in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the recruitment of researchers.

There are 5 types of MSCA targeting different objectives.

Doctoral Networks (DN)
Supporting programmes to train doctoral candidates in academic and non-academic organisations.
Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF)
Supporting career perspectives and excellence of postdoctoral researchers.
Staff Exchanges (SE)
Encouraging collaborations between organisations through staff exchanges.
COFUND
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes.
MSCA and Citizens
Bringing research and researchers closer to the public at large.

More information on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions is available here.

MSCA Doctoral Networks (DN) Projects

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) projects

CavityMag: Cavity quantum electrodynamics control of magnetic phases in twisted van der Waals heterostructures

Specific programme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Ángel Rubio Secades

Project start: 01/05/2023
Project end: 30/04/2025

Brief description:

To further increase performance and reduce energy consumption in technological devices, a new paradigm is needed exploiting quantum mechanical phenomena. An attractive route to enter this paradigm is by interfacing light and magnetic excitations in new optomagnetic devices, which ensures processing frequencies comparable with electronics and hold great promise for future memory, spintronics and quantum computing devices. This, however, requires a deeper understanding of strongly coupled light-matter systems and the interplay between magnetic, electronic, photonic and lattice excitations. A promising platform to explore exotic magnetic phenomena is magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials, since the competition of anisotropy, quantum fluctuations and spin-orbit coupling make these materials prime candidates to host such states and susceptible to material engineering techniques. This can be exploited in cavity quantum electrodynamics (c-QED) and Moiré engineering to control the magnetic state. By combining c-QED with Moiré engineering, the goal of CavityMag is to construct schemes to control the magnetic state of vdW materials and to induce exotic magnetic phases. This will be achieved by developing state-of-the-art computational tools based on quantum electrodynamical density functional theory (QED-DFT) in combination with effective spin-photon models. This computational framework will be used to perform a systematic study of light-induced magnetic phases in twisted vdW materials, to gain a deeper understanding of how microscopic magnetic interactions can be modified, and to establish concrete protocols to control the macroscopic magnetic state. It will also be used to guide experimental efforts by identifying candidate materials and parameter regimes likely to host exotic states of great promise for the construction of new high performance and energy efficient technological devices

MSCA Staff Exchanges (SE) projects

AHEAD - AI for Health: Evaluation of Applications & Datasets

MSCA COFUND projects