MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
The SSH laboratories of the University of Strasbourg are seeking to attract outstanding international researchers eager to develop ambitious, high-impact projects within a dynamic and intellectually stimulating research environment.
Through this initiative, we offer a dedicated support programme designed to help MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants prepare a highly competitive proposal for the 2026 call. Candidates selected by their prospective supervisors will benefit from close scientific guidance and tailored support throughout the proposal preparation phase.
Below you will find a list of hosting offers proposed by our SSH laboratories. We strongly encourage interested candidates to carefully review the specific details provided in each offer (eligibility criteria, application modalities and deadline) before submitting their application.
We look forward to supporting outstanding international researchers in transforming ambitious research ideas into strong MSCA-PF proposals !
Offers by laboratory
Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) – UMR 7522
Mortality Inequality, Poverty Measurement and the “Missing Poor”
Supervisor : Mathieu Lefebvre
Keywords : Mortality inequality, Poverty measurement, Missing poor, Differential mortality, Health–income gradientsAgeing, Inequality and Long-Term Care
Supervisor : Mathieu Lefebvre
Keywords : Ageing, Long-term care, Health inequalities, Social protection, Redistribution, Informal careEconomic Impact of the Alsace-Moselle Health Insurance System in a historical and comparative perspective
Supervisor : Philippe Gillig
Keywords : Health insurance system; welfare state; history of economics; natural experimentCoordinating Support Mechanisms in University Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Supervisor : Pauline Brunner
Keywords : Student entrepreneurship, university entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial ecosystemDynamic capabilities for anti-corruption: reinterpreting historical evidence through a theory of the firm lens
Supervisor : Thierry Burger-Helmchen
Keywords : Dynamic capabilities, microfoundation, corruption, theory of the firm
Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) – UR 4375
Hosting offer for a MSCA fellow in the field of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor : Jean-Marc Deltorn
Keywords : Intellectual property Law, Artificial Intelligence, PatentsHosting offer for a MSCA fellow in the field of Copyright
Supervisor : Stéphanie Carre
Keywords : Intellectual Property Law, CopyrightHosting offer for a MSCA fellow in the field of Trademarks, Intellectual property Law
Supervisor : Yann Basire
Keywords : Intellectual property Law, Trademarks
Culture et histoire dans l'espace roman (CHER) – UR 4376
Work, Society, and the Environment
Supervisor : Carlo Baghetti
Keywords : Labour narratives; Cultural studies; Environmental humanities; Representation of work; Interdisciplinary humanities; Digital humanities; Transnational studies; Southern Europe; Industrialisation and deindustrialisation; Ecology and labour; Film and media studies; Literary studies; Corpus-based analysis; Digital corpora; NLP and textual analysis; Social inequalities; Migration and gender; Comparative cultural analysis
Centre de recherches en philosophie allemande et contemporaine (CRePhAC) – UR 2326
Modern and contemporary philosophical genealogies
Supervisor : Emmanuel Salanskis
Keywords : Nietzsche studies, Foucault studies, nineteenth-century German philosophy, post-structuralism, history and philosophy of the theory of evolution
Droit, religion, entreprise et société (DRES) – UMR 7354
Revisiting Laïcité: Legal Norms, Practices and Discriminatory Effects
Supervisor : Lauren Bakir
Keywords : Laïcité; Equality; Non-discrimination; Indirect discrimination; Religious freedom; Public policy; Socio-legal studies
Groupe d'études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques (GEO) – UR 1340
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociolinguistics of Multilingualism
Supervisor : Maria Zerva
Keywords : Sociolinguistics, Multilingualisme, Heritage language education, Complementary schools, Modern GreekStudying Russian literature after 2022
Supervisor : Victoire Feuillebois
Keywords : Russia, Ukraine, literature, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, EmpireHosting offer for a MSCA Fellow in Early Islamic History and Digital Humanities
Supervisor : Adrien de Jarmy
Keywords : Islam; Early Islamic History; Sira; Hadith; Digital Humanities; Textual Database
Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa) – UR 1339
EMO-TRACK Emotion Modeling in Clinical Discourse for Narrative Medicine
Supervisor : Helene Vassiliadou
Keywords : Emotion detection, Clinical discourse, Implicit and explicit emotion, Narrative medicine, Text and speech annotation- Automatic text adaptation for French L2 language learners
Supervisor : Amalia Todirascu
Keywords : automatic text simplification, evaluation metrics for text simplification, LLMs, NLP resources for language learners, NLP for text adaptation, readability measures.
Mondes germaniques et Nord-européens (MGNE) – UR 1341
- Hosting offer for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 in German Studies and Environmental Humanities
Supervisor : Aurélie Choné
Keywords : literature, ethics, religion, spirituality, nature, culture, ecology, ontologies of nature
Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe (SAGE) – UMR 7363
- Lower classes and institutions
Supervisor : Vincent Dubois
Keywords : public services, social class, administration, street-level bureaucracy
Théologie catholique et de Sciences religieuses (TCSR) – UR 4377
- Ancient Christian history or literature
Supervisor : Christophe Guignard
Keywords : Ancient Christian history, Arian Crisis, Fourth Century, Ancient Biblical exegesis, Christ's genealogy, Virgin Mary, iconography, manuscripts - Virgil in Hilary of Poitiers: Implicit reception of classical literature, Christian exegesis, and digital intertextuality analysis
Supervisor : Michele Cutino
Keywords : ancient Christian literature; classical and Christian intertextuality; poetry, exegesis and theology
Théologie protestante (TP) – UR 4378
- Exploring the connection between spirituality, religion, and ecology
Supervisor : Christophe Monnot
Keywords : ecology; eco-spirituality; eco-psychology; eco-feminism; dark green religion; deep ecology; sub-polity
