REF: POSDOC-FAW-06.26


IMPORTANT: The interested person must send the Curriculum Vitae, the degree and the work life report MANDATORY through the CNIC application web, which can be found at the following link:
https://www.cnic.es/es/convocatoria/postdoctoral-researcher-cardiac-tissue-engineering-and-regenerative-therapies-0

Requests that are not sent through the CNIC website cannot be accepted

The Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) CNIC has been conceived to develop research of excellence, competitive and of international relevance in relation to cardiovascular diseases. The CNIC has a research centre of 24,000 m2, located in Madrid, with more than 6,000 m2 for laboratories equipped with a state-of-the-art infrastructure and equipment.
Functions:
The selected candidate will get training in engineering regenerative therapies to improve cardiomyocyte engraftment in an injured heart. Work will involve the culture of iPS cells, experimental models, use of molecular and biology techniques and microscopy techniques as well as data analysis.
This contract is funded by the European Union through the European Innovation Council, with funding awarded under the EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 call, Project GA 101258941 and acronym HeartVISION.


Mandatory Requirements
1. PhD in the area of life science.
2. At least one first author publication in the cardiovascular research field is required
3. Accreditation for functions A, B and C in experimental models.

Valuable Requirements:
C1. Experience in cardiovascular techniques in experimental models, including echocardiography and ECG analysis.
C2. Experience with gene therapy studies including studies with adeno-associated viruses.
C3. Experience in cell culture includes human pluripotent stem cell culture and cardiac differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells.
C4. Experience in fluorescence microscopy and image analysis.
C5. International experience, scientific contribution as first author, fellowships and awards.
C6. Interview (it will be conducted in English).
Positive action: a correction index of 1.5 is established for each year of experience in the evaluation of the number of years in those criteria where experience is evaluated, in the event that the disable person greater than 66% and 1.2 in the event that the disable person greater than 30%.

We offer:
• Joining a modern Research Center of international relevance in the scientific field.
• Integration into young teams in an environment of scientific excellence.
• Access to a modern infrastructure with the most advanced technology
• Training in the latest advances, both technical and scientific.
• “Contrato de actividades científico-técnicas, de duración indefinida”, in accordance with “Artículo 23‐bis de la Ley de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación (texto refundido Ley 14/2011, de 1 de junio, de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación)", funded by EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 call, Project GA 101258941 and acronym HeartVISION, as long as the selected candidate complies with the legal requirements for the formalization of the contract in accordance with the Spanish labor law.
• Immediate incorporation

Recruiment Plan:
The RESOLUTION OF THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE FOR PUBLIC FUNCTION APPROVING THE COMMON ACTION CRITERIA FOR THE RECRUITMENT PROCESSES IN THE STATE PUBLIC SECTOR ENTITIES of April 11, 2022, sets forth in point 6.1 that “Unless a specific regulation establishes a merit-bases recruitment system (“concurso”), the competition (“concurso-oposición”) must be the recruitment system”.
In CNIC, the specific regulations approved by the Foundation's board of trustees establish a merit-based recruitment system (“concurso”) including a personal interview.
At least the 3 candidates with the highest score (as long as they reach the minimum of 60 points as a sum of criteria C1‐C5) will be interviewed. The candidate with the highest score will be hired given the total score (C1-C6) is 75 points or higher.

Recruitment Commission:
• Head of the Group
• Posdoc researcher
• Manager, Research Office
• Manager, Research Office
• HR member

The CNIC guarantees, in its field of action, the principle of equality in access to employment, and cannot establish any discrimination, direct or indirect, based on reasons of origin, including racial or ethnic, sex, age, marital status, religion or convictions, political opinion, sexual orientation and identity, gender expression, sexual characteristics, union affiliation, social condition, language within the State and disability, provided that the workers are in conditions of aptitude to carry out the work or employment for which try they are assigned.
By participating in the selection process, the participant agrees that their data appear in the public resolutions of the selection process. Such resolutions (provisional list of admitted and excluded, definitive list of admitted and excluded and resolution of the process) are published on the CNIC website.
In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Ley Orgánica 3/2018, de 5 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos Personales y garantía de los derechos digitales (LOPD-GDD), your personal data will be processed by CNIC solely for the purpose of managing your application and retained for the duration of the selection process. You may exercise your data protection rights by contacting the CNIC Data Protection Officer (protecciondedatos@cnic.es).

Criterios de puntuación:
C1 - Experience in cardiovascular techniques in experimental models, including echocardiography and ECG analysis (assessed globally considering the time/specialization relationship and number of known techniques) - 20%
C2 - Experience with gene therapy studies including studies with adeno-associated viruses (assessed globally considering the time/specialization relationship and number of known techniques) - 10%
C3 - Experience in cell culture includes human pluripotent stem cell culture and cardiac differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells (assessed globally considering the time/specialization relationship and number of known techniques) - 20%
C4 - Experience in fluorescence microscopy and image analysis (assessed globally considering the time/specialization relationship and number of known techniques) - 20%
C5 - International experience, scientific contribution as first author, fellowships and awards (it will be evaluated according to years of experience (2%), number and recognition of international centers (2%), number and bibliometrics of the publications (6%)) - 10%
C6 - Interview (it will be conducted in English) - 20%

"En caso de ausencia de alguno de los evaluadores se nombrará un evaluador alternativo de la misma área"