ARISE

The ARISE programme

About the ARISE programme

Careers in research infrastructures (core facilities, data resources, service teams, large instrumentation) are on the rise and are an excellent alternative to the classical academic career. They allow you to use your scientific expertise and academic freedom, without the pressure to necessarily become a professor.

Through ARISE, we hired fellows for three years at one of EMBLs six sites and let them work on a technology or method development project of their choice as part of one of the EMBL groups and teams. In parallel we organize a unique training that teaches them how to run service and manage teams, how to support users, manage their projects, and promote innovation.

CAREER PROGRESSION AFTER ARISE

When fellows leave, we expect that they will be qualified to take a senior position in core facilities, service teams, big research infrastructures, technology development groups in academia, industry, healthcare, or other sectors, or start their own service providing enterprise.

Scientists and engineers at RIs provide services to advanced technology to other researchers, improve technologies, and manage the service units. During the ARISE fellowship, they will learn these special skills and open doors to long term careers in service providing RIs in academia or in industry.

Sounds interesting? Please look at our Fellow profiles and please reach out to us.

ARISE has finished its recruitment, but the new version of the programme, ARISE2, is welcoming applicants. Apply.

Technology and method development

Development of technology, techniques and methods, especially of those that can be used by many scientists, is currently one of the most important tasks in life sciences and at EMBL.

Our groups are working on imaging, chemical biology, computational modelling, microfluidics, robotics, X-ray optics, high-precision mechanics, data acquisition, automation, bioinformatics and software development, and integrated structural biology.

The technologies they develop help scientists to further understand topics in genome, structural, developmental and planetary biology, cell and tissue biology, translational research, or drug design.

See on which technology developments ARISE hosting groups are working.

Who are fellows are

ARISE fellows are STEM professionals with at least 4 years of research experience (including first experience in method and technology development), coming either from academia or industry, with or without a PhD. They come from a diverse mix of backgrounds such as an engineer in industry or an experienced scientist in academia who was looking for a new direction in their career development. They all have a wish to develop new methods and technologies for life sciences, strong interest to support other scientists by providing different technologies as a service and learning to manage research infrastructures.

Running research infrastructures is a very interesting, creative and rewarding job.

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.