37.454, FYI: Call for Expression of Interest for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-PF)

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Date: 02-Feb-2026
From: Matteo Tarsi [matteo.tarsi at unipv.it]
Subject: Call for Expression of Interest for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-PF)


Call for Expressions of Interest: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral
Fellowships
The Linguistics Section of the Department of Humanities at the
University of Pavia (Italy)
(https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/ricerca/le-sezioni/linguistica-teorica-e-applicata)
encourages expressions of interest for applications alongside a local
research supervisor to the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (MSCA PF) financed by the European
Commission from excellent postdoctoral researchers in the fields of:
- Historical linguistics
- Indo-European studies
- Language typology
The staff of the section working in these areas are: Silvia Luraghi,
Simone Mattiola, Elisa Roma, Chiara Zanchi (tenured staff), Lucrezia
Carnesale, Martina Giuliani (postdocs), Matteo Tarsi (Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Fellow). In addition to permanent staff and
postdoctoral researchers, there are also PhD students working in these
areas: Elia Calligari, Cecilia Mignanti, Nadia Scanavino, Michele
Tron, Silvia Zampetta and Giulia Zhang
(https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/didattica/dottorati/dottorato-linguistica/dottorandi).
For an overview of all the research lines carried out by the members
of the Linguistics Section, please consult the following website:
https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/ricerca/le-sezioni/linguistica-teorica-e-applicata.
Selected candidates will be offered both academic and administrative
support from faculty, including one current Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Fellow (Matteo Tarsi), and the University Research Support Office with
regard to proposal development.
The Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
The Marie Skłodowska Curie Action is a funding scheme that supports
researcher mobility: European Postdoctoral Fellowships may last 12-24
months to pursue a research project, advanced training and knowledge
exchange at the host institution. It offers a competitive salary,
mobility and family allowances, plus a research budget.
NB: In view of the current rules on post-doctoral contracts in Italian
universities, we can only consider applications that are for 24-month
projects.
Applicants are expected to have an excellent CV and a strong
publication record. They must hold a PhD at the Horizon Europe MSCA PF
Call deadline, usually in the first week of September each year, have
a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research after
their PhD and must not have spent (or carried out their main
activities for) more than 12 months in Italy in the 36 months prior to
the call deadline. No nationality requirements apply. For the final
eligibility criteria please refer to the official call documents.
Full details on the funding scheme and the application process will be
available starting from the launch of the call for proposals, whose
indicative date is 09 April 2026. The deadline for the MSCA PF 2025
call is 09 September 2026
(https://rea.ec.europa.eu/funding-and-grants/horizon-europe-marie-sklodowska-curie-actions/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships_en).
Please note that resubmission restrictions will apply for applications
that scored below 70% in the previous year.
The University and the Department of Humanities
The University of Pavia is one of the most ancient universities in
Europe and relies on a solid tradition of research in all scientific
fields. In the field of Humanities, it has been the host of numerous
renowned scholars in the course of the last two centuries. Presently,
the Dept. of Humanities offers three BA and nine MA courses and
participates in four PhD programs. The Linguistic Section of the Dept.
of Humanities offers a MA program in General and Applied Linguistics,
focusing - among other topics - on historical and Indo-European
linguistics, language typology and corpus linguistics. The Section
also hosts a PhD program in Linguistics, which features a curriculum
in general, historical, and typological linguistics
(https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/didattica/dottorati/dottorato-linguistica).
Several members of the Section are committed to the creation of
electronic resources (annotated corpora and databases) for the study
of ancient and modern languages
(https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/ricerca/servizi-e-innovazione/laboratori-e-strumentazione/laboratorio-di-analisi-e-risorse).
In particular, over the past two years the Section has hosted two
projects funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
focusing precisely on the creation of language resources for
historical linguistics and language typology: the project “Verbs’
Constructional Patterns across Languages: a Multi-Dimensional
Investigation”, within which PaVeDa – the Pavia Verbs Database – was
created, and the project “Linked WordNets for Ancient Indo-European
Languages”, aimed at the creation of lexical databases for Ancient
Greek, Latin and Sanskrit.
In addition, in the recent past and in the near future, several events
related to these research themes have been and will be organized: the
Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (a
biennial event, which will reach its seventh edition in September
2026), the Global WordNet Conference (January 2025), the Transalpine
Typology Meeting (July 2025), the Nowele Biennial Conference (April
2026, “Perspectives on Germanic Syntax”), a workshop dedicated to
Constructions (April 2026) and the next International Colloquium of
Ancient Greek Linguistics (planned for June 2028).
The Linguistics Section at the Department of Humanities
The Linguistics Section is a large structure with several rooms, which
presently accommodate eleven tenured members and one non-tenured
member, three post-doc researchers (plus one upcoming opening) and
several PhD students. It also has a meeting room and three Labs: LARL
- Laboratorio di Analisi e Risorse Linguistiche, especially devoted to
the creation and management of linguistic resources, a laboratory for
psycholinguistics and one for experimental phonetics. It joins the
Department library, a large on-site facility with spacious reading
rooms that is open daily.
The initiatives organized by members of the Linguistics Section are
numerous and are advertised both through the University’s
institutional communication channels and through the social media
profiles and pages Linguistics in Pavia (we are active on Facebook,
Instagram, Bluesky and Telegram). Both at the Department and Section
levels, particular importance is given to initiatives that facilitate
collaborative and informal interaction between students and
researchers at different stages of seniority. In this context, we
mention Cantieri d’Autunno, annual departmental conferences devoted to
the ancient world, and Discorsi sul metodo, a series of seminars on
linguistic research methodology curated by PhD students and addressed
in particular to peers and MA students.
Steps to follow and Important dates
Selection of prospective applicants will follow a two-step process:
Please express your interest by 1 March 2026 sending the following
documents to chiara.zanchi at unipv.it and matteo.tarsi at unipv.it,
specifying ‘MSCA @ LinguisticsUNIPV’ in the subject of your e-mail
(Please include all contact details in the body of the mail):
1)      a two-page summary of your research proposal;
2)      a CV (maximum 2 pages long) and full publication list;
3)      a cover letter.
Short-listed applicants will be notified by 1 April 2026 and invited
to an on-line interview to be held on 7 April 2026.
After the interviews, all applicants will be notified of the results.
Selected applicants will be invited to an online meeting on 13 April
2026, where they will receive further information on grant writing and
deadlines. An on-campus visit is planned for June 2026 for them to get
a sense of the work environment and meet the prospective supervisor in
person, with whom they will already have started to work on their full
proposal.
Please note that a complete draft of the application must be ready by
30 June 2026. Follow-up on the first draft is planned to unfold during
the summer. The complete application must be ready by 1 September 2026
to allow for submission some time ahead of the deadline.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Indo-European



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