The development of European HPC is recognised as a key element of European economic competitiveness, as recently described in several Recommendations of the European Commission to the European Parliament and Council.
The BSC STARS (SupercompuTing And Related applicationS) International Research Fellows program aims at fostering the training of highly skilled post-doc in all fields of High Performance Computing and related applications, specifically in Earth Science and Meteorology, in Life Sciences, Genomics and Personalised Medicine and in Computational Engineering and Physics and Computational Societies, providing them with all the necessary tools for developing their potentials, deepening their skills and knowledge in a stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment, offering them intersectorial secondments with private industry or non-academic Research centers, in order to boost their career perspectives as successful independent researchers.
The Beneficiary of the program is Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). BSC is the Spanish national supercomputing facility. Created in 2005, it quickly established itself as one of the main research centers in High Performance Computing in Europe. The Center houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a Tier-0 hosting member of the PRACE distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.
During the six years of the programme, STARS will award 20 outstanding post-doctorate researchers of all nationalities with 24 month INCOMING fellowships.
The fellowships are granted through a transparent and rigorous selection procedure, starting with wide publication of two calls awarding a total of 20 fellowships, followed by the evaluation of the candidatures, the selection of the best fellows and their incorporation procedure. The recruited fellows spend most of their period at BSC carrying out interdisciplinary research project of their choice involving at least 2 different research BSC lines, being incorporated into the group of the main research area. They will also have the possibility to spend a period of 1-3 months of intersectorial secondment in one of the Research Partnering Organisations