Post Doctoral at MIT

The Progetto Rocca awards up to two 12 months post-doc Fellowships a year to recent Politecnico PhDs in the areas of biotechnologies and health, material sciences, micro and nanotechnologies, energy, information society technologies, aerospace, environment, transportation, buildings and infrastructures, planning, industrial products and processes. Priority will be given to proposals that focus on the novel use of materials, and mathematical and physical modeling. These awards are meant to recognise and support young researchers of exceptional promise, but also to encourage ambitious collaborations between MIT and Politecnico faculty. The merits of the propsed collaboration will be essential in selecting the Fellows.
Proposed collaborations need to be at least two years long. In the second year, as specified by the Roberto Rocca Agreement, the Rocca post-doc fellows will return to Politecnico where they will continue to work on the joint project with funding provided by the Politecnico Principal Investigator.

The proposals may be submitted either by a MIT or Politecnico faculty, and must be signed by two Principal Investigators—one from MIT and one from Politecnico. Only regular faculty can sign as PI.

Please note that availability of second year funding from Politecnico is a prerequisite for a successful application to this type of fellowship.

Funding is currently available for two such projects a year—only one 12 month fellowship per project. The deadlines for the submission of Roberto Rocca two-year collaboration proposals are May 20th and October 30th. The selection will be made by members of the MIT-Italy Scientific Committee.

Conditions and Regulations:

Candidates must have held their PhD for a maximum of 2 years at the time of their application

Applications must be sent by e-mail to the President of the Milan Politecnico, progettorocca@polimi.it

Fellowships, unless otherwise specified, will begin in January and end in December

Research projects must be signed by two P.I.-- Principal Investigators—one from the Milan Politecnico and one from MIT

Applications must include:

A project description –three pages maximum—signed by the two P.I.

The Curricula Vitae of the two P.I’s –no more than two pages each

A letter signed by the Politecnico P.I. and the Deparment Head indicating financial support for the collaborative project at Politecnico for the year following the stay at MIT

The candidate’s CV

Academic record and grades

TOEFL or other evidence of English proficiency.