Marieke Hoekstra wins a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship

Branco Weiss Fellow Marieke Hoekstra has received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship (MSCA). Marieke Hoekstra’s project “A function for sleep-dependent tau dynamics” is one of 8039 projects that applied to the European Research Executive Agency (REA) for this call, out of which 15.8 % were selected for funding. In total, the European Commission will award 260 million Euro to fund 1,249 post-doctoral researchers to work at top universities, research centres, private and public organisations and small and medium-sized enterprises. Approximately 221 million Euro go to 1110 researchers through European Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing them to carry out their projects in the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe, 39 million Euro are for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing 139 researchers to carry out research outside the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe, mostly in the United States, Switzerland, Canada and Japan.

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