Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists
ARISE Programme Overview
ARISE offers you employment at EMBL for three years, a chance to work on method and technology development of your interest, career support and exclusive training curricula.
Career support
Supervision and mentoring
Secondments in non-academic sector
Career advising
Personal Career Development Plan
Training in transferable skills and outreach
Research and development time
You will work on the techdev project of your interest
Collaborate with ARISE partner organisations
Improve understanding of life sciences though internal seminars, courses and confereces
Training
Learn how to manage service providing research infrastructures at ARISE school, ARISE courses, expert and use case webinars
Shadow users of core facilities to learn how they approach technology
Learn about different ways to provide service through secondments
Employment
Three years contract
Competitive salary
First class health insurance
Excellent social benefits (family and child allowances, generous vacation days)
Which technology or methods are fitting ARISE focus?
Technology or methods that you can develop at EMBL should:
have potential to be provided as a service to life science researchers – this means that the technology cannot be easily applied in a standard laboratory and requires either specific machines, tools or expertise to use. At the same time, it should be useful to multiple researchers, coming from other groups or institutes, and
be of interest to you and
be of interest to EMBL groups and teams in which you wish to work (you can also read here what the groups and teams are planning to work on in the next years, so that you get inspiration for your project) .
As you are working on the development you will start to offer it to the users from the group, then from the institute and if possible to the external users. This will teach you how to optimize the tool to be more user friendly, to optimize the amount of support users need from you and to be more versatile and interesting for a variety of researchers.
ARISE Webinar recording
ARISE Women in RI and Technology Development recording
My projects’ main aim is to provide computational tools to the scientific community, in particular to experimental scientists who are not used to coding, in order to enable them to perform fast and streamlined analysis of protein structure ensembles and binding sites in the context of drug design.
Professional training to become a Research Infrastructure Scientist
Topics covered by the ARISE professional curriculum are
management of research infrastructures,
provision of services and support of users,
leading staff of your team,
managing your available resources (e.g. financial, equipment, space) and
strategically positioning your service providing infrastructure and planning it’s development.
Format of training: This training will be provided in the forms of courses and secondments at EMBL and over 40 ARISE partner organisations from industry and academia, distributed throughout the 3 years of the fellowship.
Goal of training: to train the engineers and researchers for the careers in core facilities, service units, data services, big infrastructures, in academia or industry.
I come from a background in engineering physics. Developing novel imaging techniques has been my main interest throughout my career, but I have found that this can be done much more effectively in an environment where there are biologists with real problems they want to solve. Working in an EMBL facility allows me to interact with biologists to help them solve their imaging challenges.al scientists who are not used to coding, in order to enable them to perform fast and streamlined analysis of protein structure ensembles and binding sites in the context of drug design.
James Swoger
Head of Mesoscopic
Imaging Facility
EMBL Barcelona
Classroom photo taken during a Bio-IT course. Credit: Marietta Schupp/EMBL
Advanced Light Microscopy Core Facility, Dr. Beate Neumann, Dr. Stefan Terjung. Credit: Kinga Lubowiecka/EMBL
Your job after ARISE
Jobs in researcher infrastructures are diverse, but in general they can be sorted in
management positions: operational and strategic management
experts positions: providing service and support to users of the services and
developers positions: developing novel methods, tools, technologies and in general improving services.
We aim to prepare you for any of these positions, depending on your affinities and background. They exist in both academia and industry, and require high level of expertise and good understanding of topics related to management and service provision, which you do not learn in classical academic or engineering training.
Alternatively, you might decide to
stay a method and technology developer and to run a team that is not providing service directly but is developing advanced technologies and methods that will be picked up by the service units, either in academia or in industry or
start your own service company.
Which expertise you need if you want to work in RIs?
We created a list of competencies that experts working in RIs need to have, regardless of the technology field that they work on.
Competency list for experts working in Research Infrastructures
Employment conditions at EMBL
As an ARISE Fellow, you will be employed for three years by EMBL, as an EMBL Research Fellow.
You will receive a contract that comes with
competitive monthly salary – see HERE the EMBL fellowship rates that are specific to each EMBL site and increase annually.
Depending on the site, other different types of support are available, for example support with organisation of the child care, temporary accommodation in the first week after joining EMBL, sport clubs memberships, language schools etc.
We also have a strong staff association, and various clubs (sports, arts, cooking, …) and groups that work on improvement of working conditions at EMBL.
Special support
EMBL and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) pay particular attention to providing equal opportunities for all researchers.
EMBL can apply to the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency for additional financial support for the costs required to support fellows with disabilities. These dedicated grants cover the additional costs that researchers with disabilities face. They can be used, for example, to adapt the working environment for fellows with disabilities, or ensure someone to assist them where necessary. More information about these grants is available from the ARISE Programme Manager.
Timeline of ARISE Fellowship
Learn more
Further information on the programme can be found in the following sections.
ARISE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945405.
