Our three Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellows funded in the 2025 call have now arrived in Lund to spend two years working on their projects: Chloe, Sead and Matteo!
Chloe Castle will work on the project Attrition, attainment, or grammatical borrowing: Multilingual minds and the languages within them (ATOMIC), investigating the roles of cross-linguistic influence, input, and attrition in heritage and first-generation Croatian speakers in Sweden and Finland. It will use a combination of EEG and elicitation techniques to capture and compare online processing and production, as well as an extensive questionnaire to explore social and input-related factors. Chloe is based at the Centre for Languages and Literature and will be supervised by Prof. Tanja Kupisch.
Sead Zimeri received funding for the project Karama: The Idea of Human Dignity in Islam. KARAMA asks what human dignity is and how it can be systematically understood from within an Islamic perspective as a reason-giving principle in ethics and law. Islamic sources affirm the dignity of the human being (karāma) but have not theorised it philosophically: the project maps the concept’s semantic field, determines whether dignity is intrinsic, relational, or conditional, and tests its justificatory force in debates about gender justice and human rights. Sead is based at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studes and work under the supervision of Associate ProfessorSami Al Daghistani.
Matteo Lombardi will work on the project POLYHEDRA: POLY-vocal Heritage Ecosystem for Digital Representation and Analysis which explores a new approach to cultural heritage, viewing heritage sites as dynamic places continuously shaped by the communities that interact with them. The project develops an open-source Heritage Digital Ecosystem that brings together archaeological data, BIM and GIS, photorealistic reconstructions, and community narratives. Through three European case studies, POLYHEDRA will develop new interdisciplinary methods for studying complex, multi-layered heritage sites while encouraging community participation through collaborative annotation and immersive VR experiences. Hosted by DARKLab, under the supervision of Prof. Nicolò Dell’Unto, the project also involves the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo and CNR-ISPC.
15 applications were submitted with the HT faculties in the MSCA PF 2026 call that recently closed. The call received 21 627 applications, up 26,7 % from 17 066 the year before, which is the highest number of applications in any single funding scheme in the 40-year history of the Framework Programmes.
Congratulations, Johannes