Dust-DN recruits 17 doctoral candidates

The Dust Doctoral Network (Dust-DN), led by CARE-C of the Cyprus Institute, has been selected with full marks to contribute to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) of Horizon Europe, and will officially start operations on 1 November 2024. A recruitment campaign for seventeen doctoral candidates within our prestigious network has now started, with a deadline at the end of August 2024.

Dust is a major atmospheric aerosol, and it gives us one of the most visible and detectable aspects of transboundary transport of atmospheric constituents, impacting visibility, radiation and climate. It affects the environment, society, and several economic sectors, with impacts on the transportation and energy sectors for example, the nature and cost of which is not fully understood and quantified. Dust-DN will train a cohort of scientists to become leaders in this field of research.

Dust-DN in a nutshell:

  • The first doctoral network on a European scale (to our knowledge), bringing together expertise on mineral dust in the atmosphere, combining multidisciplinary aspects.
  • A strategic international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral alliance of high-profile beneficiaries and associated partners, able to leverage on unique state-of-the-art facilities
  • A careful blend between individual research projects and integrated combined training and networking, and a critical mass on dust-focused studies using complementary methodologies.
  • Exposure of the doctoral candidates to differing research and working environments, multiple technologies and methodologies.
  • Training in the atmospheric sciences, dust science questions, transferable skills and on the partners’ unique research infrastructures, enabling to tackle the bigger picture of dust challenges.
  • Dedicated applied research projects with direct contributions and impacts embedded with the societal and industrial sector.

You can find out more information about the network’s objectives and the job adverts on the project website: https://dust-dn.cyi.ac.cy/

For any queries, you can contact the project coordinator Assoc Prof Franco Marenco here.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No: 101168425

This project has received funding
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant agreement
No. 856612 and the Cyprus Government
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