Career Development Plan

Each fellow must complete a Personal Career Development Plan. The plan is to help you identify short-term and long-term goals, which will allow you to target your training and other activities towards attaining these goals. The template contains guidance notes on how to complete the plan. Please read these notes before filling in your plan.

The plan should be submitted to the Executive Board for approval in the first two months of your training.

For ESRs, the plan should be reviewed and updated mid-way through your fellowship, and again in the last year of your training. Each update must be submitted to the Executive Board for approval.

 

Inter-sectorial Secondments

Each project includes a mandatory inter-sectorial secondment, for a duration of 2 weeks up to 3 months. This will expose the fellow to a different working environment and different approaches to solving problems.

The secondment will be arranged in consultation with supervisors and second supervisors, and the industrial partners. In addition to improving the researcher’s skill set, the secondment will maximise the synergy between the industrial activity and the individual project of the researcher.

 

ESR Recruiting Participant Inter-sectorial stage Period Tentative Title
ESR1 Clément Coutouly C.A. Fustin (UCL) Allnex M34-M35 Reversible DDNs for coating applications
ESR2 Rowanne Lyons C.A. Fustin (UCL) Allnex M34-M35 DD slide-ring gels for haptic coating application
ESR3 Larissa Hammer R. Nicolay (ESPCI) tesa M40-M41 Synthesis of acrylate based dual networks
ESR4 Stefania Traettino M. Cloitre (ESPCI) DSM M38-M39 ageing and slow dynamics of DD TPEs
ESR5 Christina Pyromali D. Vlassopoulos (FORTH) DSM M35-M36 Investigating the dynamics of metallo-supramolecular networks
ESR6 Wendi Wang Q. Huang (DTU) tesa M40-M42 Relating elongation behavior to adhesive properties
ESR7 Carole-Ann Charles C. Ligoure (CNRS) DSM M30-M33 Modelling percolation processes in DD-TPEs
ESR8 Consiglia Carillo D. Vlassopoulos (FORTH) tesa M36-M37 Relate shear behavior to adhesive properties
ESR9 Simone Sbrescia P. Steeman (DSM) UCL 6 Months
ESR10 Paola Nicolella S. Seiffert (UM) Allnex M40-M42 Importance of structure and diffusion in coating applications.
ESR11 Hongwei Liu G. Ianniruberto (UN) tesa M43-M44 Understand the role of chain stretching and strain hardening on the resistance of the DDNs.
ESR12 Yanzhao Li E. van Ruymbeke (UCL) Allnex M37-M39 Apply statistical tool on randomly crosslinked DDNs used in coating applications
ESR13 Jianzhu Ju C. Creton (ESPCI) DSM M20-M23 Fracture mechanisms in DD-TPEs

Second Supervisors and short exchange visits

In order to further broaden their field of expertise and to promote information exchange among participants, the ESRs will have to develop complementary skills within another research group, with a second advisor or collaborator, chosen from another institution of the consortium, with complementary expertise. The role of the second advisor will be to provide complementary training skills and act as a discussion partner, following closely and contributing to the project’s progress.

In addition to finding a second supervisor, researchers are encouraged to organise short exchange visits to other labs within the DoDyNet project, as well as visits to labs external to DoDyNet. These visits will serve to diversify and improve the knowledge and skills of the researcher, and will also serve to disseminate information in both directions through-out the network.

Deliverables

All researchers are expected to submit 2 or 3 deliverables (reports) over the course of their project. Each ESR received at the beginning of his engagement a table summarizing the deliverables related to his work. These are only guidelines - the reports should be in line with your project as defined in your PCDP, and should be discussed and decided upon with the help of your supervisor. For deliverables that are due after you finish your project, you will need to submit them before you finish.

 

Acknowledgement of Funding

During the course of the project, you will be required to acknowledge the Marie Curie Actions as a source of funding when presenting/publishing results or filing patents:

  • For publications:

“This work was financially supported by funding from the H2020 Programme (MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS) of the European Commission’s Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017) under DoDyNet REA Grant Agreement N°.765811.”

 

  • For patents:

"The work leading to this invention has received funding from H2020 Programme (MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS) of the European Commission’s Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017) under DoDyNet REA Grant Agreement N°.765811.”

 

  • For presentations:  Europe logo, DoDyNet logo and the name of the project (DoDyNet)

Researcher Representation

During the DoDyNet project, ESRs will elect 2 fellows to represent them. These representatives will be responsible for coordinating the activities of the fellows, and will also represent the fellows to the Governing Board.

2018 - 2020 : Larissa Hammer & Paola Nicolella