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INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY PAS, Team 18, Functional Polymers

NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE

- Motivation letter/employment application;
- professional curriculum vitae;
- university degree diploma;
- PhD certificate;
- a list of scientific achievements (publications, patents, conference presentations, etc.);

• The application deadline is on the
12th June 2026 , 12:00 noon
Applications should be sent to rekrutacja@ichf.edu.pl. IMPORTANT! email subject: “Recruitment no 20/2026 ” (emails without this number will not be considered)

• Top candidates can be invited for an online or in-person interview (15-26th June 2026). We reserve the right to contact and reply to only selected candidates.
• The position will be offered to the person with the highest evaluation by the Recruitment Committee.
• The results of the recruitment are planned to be announced on the 6th July 2026.
• Employment will take place in accordance with the provisions of the competition documentation of the National Science Center (NSC) for the OPUS 24, https://www.ncn.gov.pl/ogloszenia/konkursy/opus24
and Employment policy of the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS https://ichf.edu.pl/files/csr/ipc-procedures.pdf .
• The incomplete applications may not be considered
• The results of the competition are made public.
• Candidates who have been issued a negative opinion by the Competition Committee or candidates not selected for employment have the right to appeal against the results of the evaluation. The appeal shall be lodged with the Director of the Institute within 7 days from the date of receipt of the appropriate information. The decision of the Director of the Institute shall be final.
Appeals should be sent to the following email address: dzgran@ichf.edu.pl.
If the top candidate does not sign the contract due to the resignation, we reserve the right to choose the next candidate from the ranking list.

The successful candidate for the postdoctoral position shall, for the full term of their employment within the project, be obligated to maintain compliance with the following conditions:
- their PhD degree has been awarded by another institution than the one planned to employ them at this post or they have completed a continuous and evidenced post-doctoral fellowship of at least 10 months in another institution than the host institution for the project and in another country than the one in which they have been conferred a PhD degree
- when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no remuneration from the funds allocated as direct costs under research projects funded in NCN calls;
- when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no remuneration from another employer pursuant to an employment contract, including an employer with registered office outside of Poland; and
- when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no pension under the social insurance scheme

For more details about the position please visit:

Contact person: Dr Maciej Cieplak, mcieplak(at)ichf.edu.pl
Phone: 22 3433188

Name of the post and its definition in the meaning of the grant documentation:

Postdoc
A post-doc type post is a full-time post, scheduled by the project’s principal investigator for a person who has been conferred a PhD degree in the year of employment in the project or within 7 years before 1 January of the year of employment in the project. For researchers with multiple PhDs, the date of the first PhD award is deemed the reference date. This period may be extended by a time of long-term (in excess of 90 days) documented sick leaves or rehabilitation leaves granted on account of being unfit to work. In addition, the period may be extended by the number of months of a childcare leave granted pursuant to the Labour Code and in the case of women, by 18 months for every child born or adopted, whichever manner of accounting for career breaks is preferable.
The following conditions are met by the person to be employed at that position: a) they are selected by means of open competition procedure, carried out by a recruitment committee appointed by the head of the project’s host entity, composed of the project’s principal investigator as its chair and at least two other persons appointed by the principal investigator, who have necessary scientific or professional qualifications. The assessment of the candidates is carried out pursuant to the criteria outlined in the call announcement and the results are made public by posting on the website of the project’s host institution; b) they did not have the principal investigator as their research supervisor or auxiliary supervisor of their PhD dissertation. c) their PhD degree has been awarded by another institution than the one planned to employ them at this post or they have completed a continuous and evidenced post-doctoral fellowship of at least 10 months in another institution than the host institution for the project and in another country than the one in which they have been conferred a PhD degree; d) they will be employed for a period of at least 6 months; e) when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no remuneration from the funds allocated as direct costs under research projects funded in NCN calls; f) when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no remuneration from another employer pursuant to an employment contract, including an employer with registered office outside of Poland; and g) when the remuneration is paid, they will be receiving no pension under the social insurance scheme.