CENTURI Training course
Learn to Have an Individual Fellowship - Part 1
The Learn to Have an Individual Fellowship - Part 1 is a half-day session providing an overview of individual fellowships, the key knowledge required to prepare an application, and the different types of available funding. It will also include discussions with post-doctoral researchers and researchers sharing their own experience, choices, successes, failures and advice to get an individual fellowship during their academic career.
This session is intended for PhD students at any stage, as well as for post-doctoral researchers.
This course is open to all, no registration needed.
About the Trainers —
Julia Schaeffer
Julia Schaeffer obtained her PhD in 2018 from the University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Roger Keynes, studying axon guidance mechanisms for spinal nerve patterning during embryogenesis. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, working across the teams of Homaira Nawabi and Stéphane Belin on axon regeneration in the adult visual system. In November 2024, she launched her own research team, "Axon regulation and regrowth," at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), supported by the ATIP-Avenir programme, investigating the molecular mechanisms of local protein synthesis in injured and regenerating axons. In 2024, she received the Prix des Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie from the French Académie des Sciences for this work.
From neuronal cell organization to axon regeneration and circuit reconnection
Felix Rico
Felix Rico is Associate Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille Université, based at the Laboratoire Adhésion et Inflammation (LAI). He studied physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and earned his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Barcelona, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Miami and Institut Curie in Paris. Since 2013, his research at the LAI has focused on adapting high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) to measure the mechanical properties of single molecules and living cells at unprecedented speeds — down to the microsecond timescale — supported by an ERC Consolidator grant. He also co-organizes the international AFMBioMed summer school.
Measuring the forces inside cells and molecules, one microsecond at a time
