Carlos continuously seeks training to identify and mitigate unconscious bias in the recruitment process. When recruiting postdocs who are university employees subject to the institutional collective agreement, great care is taken, so that the process not only respects institutional procedures, but also falls within the established set of values and EDI culture of the CERC.

To this end, the RQMP is developing an International School of Advanced Materials, which has among its objectives to recruit at the international level in order to promote diversity, with a blind review process and incentives for underrepresented groups. Formal recruitment of postdocs will involve a committee of professors and the Senior Research Scientist (see Core Team), not chaired by the Chairholder, all of whom will have received appropriate training in EDI and unconscious bias. The advert will be constructed using neutral, inclusive language, following guidance and input from the competent EDI institutional officers, and will be posted in professional society academic job adverts. Carlos will target particular researchers from underrepresented groups to achieve group composition.