PSI FELLOW Program

As every year, on September 18, the annual PSI FoKo poster event took place; for the very first time at ParkInnovaare. PhD students and postdocs from both PSI research centers, CNM and CPS, presented their work/projects. Among them, many PSI-FELLOW postdocs from the 2 research centers showed their current projects and results.

The 2024 PSI Symposium took place last Thursday, June 13^th. Involving more than 50 PSI postdocs and Ph.D. students, as well as six guest speakers, attendees were able to gain valuable insights into the challenges of integrating academic research, private industry, and personal life conditions. The main addressed topics throughout the symposium centered around the nuanced complexities of real-life scenarios of the speakers. These are individuals who have successfully blended their academic pursuits with the dynamic demands of industry, all while managing familial and administrative responsibilities. While the symposium dealt with scientific isssues, its real value was revealed through the unscripted, authentic journeys of individuals from diverse socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. The primary aim was that through the speakers’ narratives, PSI's Ph.D. and postdoc community would be able to gain insights into the perspectives and pitfalls of venturing into such uncharted territories. The PSI FELLOW board and program management unit consider the event as a full success! Thanks to everyone who joined and a special big thank you to our speakers!

The PSI-FELLOW postdocs were invited by Michal Studniarek (Research Team Manager, Power Device Physics) to a site visit in Baden-Dättwil. We tremendously enjoyed the talks, presentations and lab tour, providing us with great insights of ABB's various activities. Further networking and discussions with the ABB team took place during the offered lunch and was highly appreciated. With Michal being a former MSCA PSI-FELLOW postdoc (PSI-FELLOW-II-3i program, 2016 – 2021), future possible career paths were clearly shown. 

For many of the 33 employed PSI-FELLOW postdocs (1st call 2020), it will be soon time to say good-bye to the Fellow program. This has been celebrated with a lovely dinner on Wednesday, April 19 in Baden. Our best wishes for a bright and challenging future - from the Management Unit to all who are leaving or have left already.

Our current in-house PSI-FELLOW-III-3i postdocs (1st call, 2021- 2023) were presenting their work due to a poster session at PSI's "Tag der offenen Tür" on October 23, 2022.

New PSI-FELLOW-II-3i postdocs taking up their duties (2nd call, 2019 - 2021)

Within the second call, 29 out of 59 eligible applicants were employed during the last months. On September 19, 2019, they were all invited to join the "welcome meeting" in which the program management unit (PMU) was providing essential information about the program and its continuos education program. The PSI-FELLOW-II-3i program offers these researchers the opportunity to perform their innovative scientific project in one of the four attractive scientific fields tackled at PSI: i) materials and matters, ii) life-sciences, iii) energy and environment and iv) accelerator technologies.

This second call was the last call for applications under this program.