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Joint Research Centre

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission’s Directorate General whose mission is to provide independent, evidence-based knowledge and science, supporting EU policies to positively impact society.

The JRC offers opportunities for MSCA PFs secondments and short research stays in the following areas of JRC research:

  • Transformation of the built environment to support the energy and green transition; sustainable renovation, modular construction, and the integration of robotics;
  • Transport and mobility: all modes and geographical scales; modelling and data science applications;
  • Energy efficiency and renewables: urban climate mitigation and adaptation, including urban overheating and heat islands.
  • Disaster risk management: wildfire monitoring, risk and recovery;
  • Economic, financial and social resilience: household finance and sustainable and inclusive well-being;
  • Economics of the food system: sustainable food and consumer behaviour;
  • Non-Communicable Disease prevention, health promotion, sustainable healthy diets;
  • Sustainable and innovative solutions and technologies for health;
  • Mental Health: focus on transdisciplinary and integrated approaches to prevention
  • Small modular nuclear reactors: reactor safety analysis, emergency preparedness and response, and new structural materials;
  • Evidence informed policymaking: science for policy advisory systems, democratic theory and deliberative democracy;

Select JRC publications per area of research

Built Environment:

  • Kallioras, S., Bournas, D., Smiroldo, F., Giongo, I., Piazza, M., & Molina, F. J. (2024). Cross‐laminated timber for seismic retrofitting of RC buildings: Substructured pseudodynamic tests on a full‐scale prototype. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 53(14), 4354-4378.
  • Pohoryles, D. A., Bournas, D. A., Da Porto, F., Caprino, A., Santarsiero, G., & Triantafillou, T. (2022). Integrated seismic and energy retrofitting of existing buildings: A state-of-the-art review. Journal of Building Engineering, 61, 105274.
  • Pohoryles, D. A., Maduta, C., Bournas, D. A., & Kouris, L. A. (2020). Energy performance of existing residential buildings in Europe: A novel approach combining energy with seismic retrofitting. Energy and buildings, 223, 110024.
  • Rossi, M., & Bournas, D. (2023). Structural health monitoring and management of cultural heritage structures: a state-of-the-art review. Applied Sciences, 13(11), 6450

Economics of Climate Change, Energy and Transport:

  • Christidis, P., Cawood, E. N., & Fiorello, D. (2022). Challenges for urban transport policy after the Covid-19 pandemic: Main findings from a survey in 20 European cities. Transport Policy, 129, 105-116.
  • Christidis, P., Ulpiani, G., Stepniak, M., & Vetters, N. (2024). Research and innovation paving the way for climate neutrality in urban transport: Analysis of 362 cities on their journey to zero emissions. Transport Policy, 148(C), 107–123.
  • Vega-Gonzalo, M., Gomez, J., & Christidis, P. (2023). How has COVID-19 changed private car use in European urban areas? An analysis of the effect of socio-economic characteristics and mobility habits. Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 172, 103679.

Energy Efficiency and Renewables:

  • Möslinger, M., Ulpiani, G., & Vetters, N. (2023). Circular economy and waste management to empower a climate-neutral urban future. Journal of Cleaner Production, 421, 138454.
  • Ulpiani, G., Treville, A., Bertoldi, P., Vetters, N., Barbosa, P., Feyen, L., ... & Santamouris, M. (2024). Are cities taking action against urban overheating? Insights from over 7,500 local climate actions. One Earth, 7(5), 848-866.
  • Ulpiani, G., Vetters, N., Shtjefni, D., Kozarev, V., Dunlop, T., & Guimaraes Pereira, Â. (2025). Do ambitious cities value collaboration in climate action? Insights from the first group of cities pursuing climate neutrality. Cities, 162, 105945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105945

Disaster Risk Management:

  • Grabova, O., Urso, G., Corbane, C., Dalmasso, S., Kemper, T., Salamon, P., San-Miguel, J., Santini, M., Sedano, F., Toreti, A., Spagnolo, L., Hrast Essenfelder, A., Ceccato, P., Galliano, D. A., Bitussi, A., Barantiev, D., Verile, M., Uboldi, A., & De Groeve, T. (2025). Artificial intelligence approaches for disaster risk management (JRC142778). European Commission.
  • Marcantonio, M., Strona, G., Sedano, F., & Van Der Velde, M. (2024). Simulating small woody feature restoration to enhance habitat connectivity in intensively farmed areas of the European Union. Landscape Ecology, 40(1), 8.

Economic and Financial Resilience:

  • Benczur, P., Boskovic, A., Cariboni, J., Chevallier, R., Le Blanc, J., Sandor, A., & Zec, S. (2024). Sustainable and inclusive wellbeing, the road forward (JRC137910). Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/828060
  • Benczur, P., Boskovic, A., Giovannini, E., Pagano, A., & Sandor, A.-M. (2025). Measuring sustainable and inclusive wellbeing: A multidimensional dashboard approach (JRC140456). Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/4186342
  • Benczur, P., Kvedaras, V., & Preziosi, N. M. C. (2023). Health-adjusted income: Complementing GDP to reflect the valuation of life expectancy (JRC134152). Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/91140

Economics of the Food System:

  • Barreiro Hurle, J., Dessart, F. J., Rommel, J., Czajkowski, M., Espinosa-Goded, M., Rodriguez-Entrena, M., Thomas, F., & Zagórska, K. (2023). Willing or complying? The delicate interplay between voluntary and mandatory interventions to promote farmers’ environmental behavior. Food Policy, 120, 102481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102481
  • Dessart, F. J., Barreiro-Hurlé, J., & Van Bavel, R. (2019). Behavioural factors affecting the adoption of sustainable farming practices: a policy-oriented review. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 46(3), 417-471.
  • Schneider, K., Barreiro-Hurle, J., & Rodriguez-Cerezo, E. (2023). Pesticide reduction amidst food and feed security concerns in Europe. Nature food, 4(9), 746–750. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00834-6

Disease Prevention:

  • Kokkorou, M., Dinnella, C., Spinelli, S., Wollgast, J., Maragkoudakis, P., & Monteleone, E. (2023). Developing tailor-made plant-based dishes with adolescents for school canteens. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.1423. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1423
  • Kokkorou, M., Spinelli, S., Dinnella, C., Pierguidi, L., Wollgast, J., Maragkoudakis, P., & Monteleone, E. (2025). Co-creating innovative and accepted legume-based dishes for school canteens with adolescents in a low socioeconomic area. Food Quality and Preference, 123, 105343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2024.105343
  • Mollet, S. D., Manton, D. J., Wollgast, J., & Toebes, B. (2024). A right to health-based approach to dental caries: Towards a comprehensive control strategy. Caries Research, 58(5), 444–453. https://doi.org/10.1159/000538459

Mental Health:

  • Coeke, S., Panzarella, G., Firth, J., Sarris, J., Buckman, J., Toczyski, P., Van Rijn, E., Quetel, C., Kephalopoulos, S., Briquet-Laugier, V., Vignes, M., Kourti, N., Bobach, C., Pladunova, S., Solmi, M., Van Kamp, I., Ronchi, F., Pevere, M., Gallo, S., ... Wiesenthal, T. (2025). Decoding depression: Exploring the environome across life course (JRC139918). Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9190776

Reactor Safety and Components:

  • Caciuffo, R., Fazio, C., & Guet, C. (2020). Generation-IV nuclear reactor systems. EPJ Web of Conferences, 246, 00011. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024600011
  • Fazio, C., & Balbaud, F. (2016). Corrosion phenomena induced by liquid metals in Generation IV reactors. In Structural Materials for Generation IV Nuclear Reactors (pp. 23–74). Elsevier.

Science in Democracy and Evidence-Informed Policymaking:

  • Deligiaouri, A., & Suiter, J. (2023). Oscillating Between Representation and Participation in Deliberative Fora and the Question of Legitimacy: Can ‘Hybrid Representative Democracy’be the Remedy?. Representation, 59(1), 137-153.
  • Keizer, A.-G., Almeida, M., Deligkiaouri, A., Gadzina-Kołodziejska, A., Kock, E., Olajos-Szabo, A., Scharfbillig, M., Smits, P., & Vala, F. (2025). Evidence-informed policymaking: A pathway to increasing trust in democratic institutions and boosting competitiveness (JRC141543). Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/3905455
  • Ladi, S., Spanou, C., Angelou, A., Panagiotatou, D., & Manioudis, M. (2025). Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration in a post-pandemic Europe – Country analysis, policy recommendations and implementation roadmap: Greece (A. Deligkiaouri & A. Olajos-Szabo, Eds.; JRC141465). Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/8311826

Contact

jrc-msca@ec.europa.eu