Results Announced for the First Call of the Momentum MSCA Premium Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Coordinated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Momentum MSCA Premium Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme aims to provide outstanding international researchers with the opportunity to carry out independent research projects by joining existing Momentum research groups. Through this initiative, the programme contributes to strengthening both scientific excellence in Hungary and international research cooperation.
The first call of the programme received a total of 53 eligible applications across three scientific domains:
- Humanities and Social Sciences (13);
- Life Sciences (12);
- Mathematics and Natural Sciences (28).
The diversity of the submitted proposals is reflected in the fact that applicants represented
23 different nationalities,
many of whom had internationally recognised academic track records.
The submitted proposals were of outstanding professional quality and scientific ambition, reflecting the inspiring potential of the applicant pool. Following a multi-stage evaluation process involving
independent experts and international reviewers, 20 applicants
were awarded fellowships, and an additional 9 applicants were placed on a reserve list.
All awarded researchers will receive a standardised level of funding, the details of which are available in the call for proposals.
The funded researchers are expected to
begin their postdoctoral projects at host institutions in Hungary in early 2026.
List of Awarded Researchers:
| Researcher name - Kutató neve | Application title - Pályázat címe | Host Research Group - Befogadó kutatócsoport |
| Aleksei Gordeev | Algebraic and Algorithmic Methods in Extremal Combinatorics | MTA–HUN-REN RI Lendület 'Momentum' Arithmetic Combinatorics Research Group |
| Anna Christi Suwardi | Women’s Political Representation and Social Media | MTA– (HUN-REN TK) ELTE TK Lendület 'Momentum' PRiSMa Research Group |
| Chen Henrik Kozulin | Epigenetic Population Diversity of Roman Pannonia | MTA– (HUN-REN BTK) ELTE HTK Lendület 'Momentum' Bioarchaeolgy Research Group |
| Chika Ejikeugwu | Preventing Biofilm-Associated Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus through Rational Antibiotic Combinations (PREVENT-BIOFILM) | MTA–HUN-REN SZBK Lendület 'Momentum' Systems Biology of Antibiotic Action Research Group |
| Éva Zsuzsanna Mihálka | Development of a broadly predictive quantum model applicable to practical transition-metal catalysis: understanding CO2 reduction | MTA–BME Lendület 'Momentum' Quantum Chemistry Research Group |
| Gábor Almási | An uncanonised humanist at the court of Matthias Corvinus: Aurelio Lippo Brandolini | MTA– (HUN-REN BTK) ELTE HTK Lendület 'Momentum' Humanist Canons and Identities Research Group |
| Garrett Ervin | Arithmetic of order types, one-dimensional dynamics, and orbit equivalence relations | MTA–ELTE Lendület 'Momentum' Borel Combinatorics and Complexity Research Group |
| Ghoufrane Derhy | Trait-based spatial-temporal dynamics contrasting river and lake pelagic food webs: A data-modelling approach | MTA–HUN-REN ÖK Lendület 'Momentum' Fluvial Ecology Research Group |
| György Hantal | Healing at the Interface: Molecular Mechanisms in Self-Repairing Polymer Composites | MTA–BME Lendület 'Momentum' Sustainable Polymers Research Group |
| Jose Bermejo | Exploiting synergies between cosmological surveys to probe the primordial Universe | MTA–HUN-REN CSFK Lendület 'Momentum' Large-scale Structure Research Group |
| Junyao Gu | A multi trophic approach to better understanding the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in large river plankton | MTA–HUN-REN ÖK Lendület 'Momentum' Fluvial Ecology Research Group |
| Leila Neimane | Artificial intelligence between promise and threat: juggling digital age environmental justice with the right to a healthy environment (BREATHE-AI) | MTA– (HUN-REN TK) ELTE TK Lendület 'Momentum' Algorithmic Constitutionalism Research Group |
| Linoy Namdar | Paw Prints of Progress: Animal Influence on Copper Age Technological Diffusion in Hungary | MTA–ELTE Lendület 'Momentum' Innovation Research Group |
| Mario Vicente Rubio Teves | Synaptic organization of the parafascicular complex in mice and humans | MTA–HUN-REN KOKI Lendület 'Momentum' Thalamus Research Group |
| Maxime Le Ster | Moiré superlattice engineering of the topological flat band in rhombohedral graphite | MTA–HUN-REN EK Lendület 'Momentum' Topology in Nanomaterials Research Group |
| Mrityunjay Pandey | Topological Superconductivity in Graphene-superconducting junction | MTA–BME Lendület 'Momentum' Superconducting Nanoelectronics Research Group |
| Quintin Kreth | How Geography and Intranational Prestige Hierarchies Shape the Network Dynamics of International Research Collaboration | MTA–HUN-REN KRTK Lendület 'Momentum' Agglomeration, Networks, and Innovation Research Group |
| Rashi Lunia | Some analytic aspects of values of L-functions | MTA–HUN-REN RI Lendület 'Momentum' Analytic Number Theory and Representation Theory Research Group |
| Szabolcs Dvorácskó | Targeting genotoxin-producing gut pathogens through in vivo characterization of the efficacy of antibiotics and cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) modulators | MTA–HUN-REN SZBK Lendület 'Momentum' Systems Biology of Antibiotic Action Research Group |
| Terese Hansen | Portraying the Jewellers of the Universe | MTA–HUN-REN CSFK Lendület 'Momentum' Nuclear Burning in Stars Research Group |