Research Opportunities
Postdoctoral fellowships
Please get in touch with Fabrizio if you are interested in applying for a postdoctoral fellowship, such as Newton International Fellowship, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, or EUTOPIA-SIF Fellowship. Please make sure to include your CV and to state your research interests/potential project idea.
PhD positions
If you'd like to join the Alberti lab for a PhD, please get in touch with Fabrizio with your CV and stating your research interests. You can join the Alberti lab through the MIBTP programme, NERC-CENTA, a Warwick Chancellor's International scholarship, or a China Scholarship Council - University of Warwick Joint Award.
There are currently two MIBTP projects available to join the Alberti lab with application deadline 23 November 2026:
- CASE project 'Harnessing entomopathogenic fungi to enable sustainable pest control' in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Germany)
- Standard project 'Engineering Basidiomycota fungi for the biosynthesis of high-value natural products'
