Results of the first PASIFIC Call have been announced
35 foreign scientists will come to the institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences to conduct their research. The winners of the first Call of the PASIFIC Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme have just been selected.
Independent evaluators have chosen 35 excellent researchers who will come to Poland between January and March 2022. The competition was very strong, as there were about 10 applicants for every place. To select the winning proposals, the evaluators assessed the projects according to three main criteria – excellence, impact, and feasibility. Each project also had to pass the ethical evaluation.
In the first Call, 10 projects will be financed from the Life Sciences panel, 10 from Social Sciences and Humanities, and 15 from Physical Sciences and Engineering. The number of Fellowships granted in each panel depended on the number of applications submitted in each discipline. Similar to gender distribution in the whole Call, in the ranking list, there are 69% of male (24) and 31% of female researchers.
In terms of research experience, its length varied greatly, but not as much as in the whole Call – it ranged from 0.32 of the year to 17 years – with an average experience of 6.43 years and a median of 5.92 years.
The Fellows are of 15 nationalities and will come to Poland from 15 countries. They represent 17 different disciplines. The laureates will conduct their research in 22 different Polish Academy of Sciences Institutes. The largest number of Fellows will be working on their projects at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (3) and in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology (3).
The PASIFIC Fellows will receive a monthly salary of approx. EUR 2500 net. Those who decide to come to Poland with their families will be entitled to a family allowance. In addition, researchers will have a research budget of up to EUR 60 000 for direct costs at their disposal.
Call 1 – summary
The PASIFIC Programme attracted many researchers from all around the world – the Excellence in Science Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which coordinates the competition received 348 proposals from researchers of 60 nationalities. 147 applications were submitted in Physical Sciences and Engineering panel, 109 in Social Sciences and Humanities, and 92 in Life Sciences.
In the Call, 27 disciplines were covered. The largest number of applications, i.e. as many as 33, were submitted in the Cultures and Cultural Production areas.
Almost all of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institutes (61 out of 70) were chosen as a Host Institute at least once. The majority of proposals were submitted with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (27), followed by the Institute of Physical Chemistry (22). The average number of applications per Institute was close to 6, and the median – 4.
In the Call, 70% of all proposals were submitted by men (242) and 30% (106) by women. Interestingly, the research experience of the applicants varied significantly – from 0.01 of a year to 34.09 years. The average experience was 5.67 years, while the median – 4.09.
The majority of Applicants were of Indian origin (80), followed by Ukrainian (30), Pakistani (23), Polish (22), and Iranian (19). The researchers resided in 62 different countries – mostly India (53), China (22), Germany (22), Ukraine (21), and the United Kingdom (15).
The Excellence in Science Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences has announced the results on November 16, 2021.
The full ranking list, as well as reserve list, can be found here https://pasific.pan.pl/call-1/
PASIFIC Call 2
The PASIFIC Call 2 is open from September 15 to December 30, 2021. Researchers who were not accepted as PASIFIC Fellows in Call 1 can re-apply in Call 2. For more information please visit https://pasific.pan.pl/.
