Peter Sütterlin
   
Olaf Dittmann
  
Cristina Gabellieri
   
Laura Merenda
   
Klaus Pushmann
   
Regina Aznar Cuadrado
   
Carla Gil
   
Jack Ireland (twice)
   
Etienne Vogt
   
Colin Rosenthal
   
Bertil Dorch
   
Boris Gudiksen
   
Karin Muglach
   
Marcelo Lopez Fuentes
   
Kostas Tziotziou (twice)
   
Eoghan O'Shea
   
Axel Settele
  
Arek Berlicki (twice)
   
Moncef Derouich
   
Katja Janssen
   
Andrés Asensio Ramos
   
Luc Rouppe van der Voort
   
Kai Langhans
   
Monica Sánchez Cuberes
   
Peter Gömöry
  
Arek Berlicki (twice)
   
Jaroslav Dudík
   
Stéphane Régnier.
The eligibility for ESMN vacancies was limited by strict EC rules specified in detail at the pertinent EC site. They were open exclusively to nationals of European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom plus the new member countries Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia) and to nationals of the so-called Associated States (Bulgaria, Romania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel, Switzerland). They were only available to persons from such countries that were not a national of the hiring country nor had been working there for more than 12 out of the past 24 months. Applicants had to be below 36 years of age, excepting allowance for military service or maternity leave.
Applications had to be sent by email to the pertinent scientists in charge. Unless stipulated otherwise, applications had to include a curriculum vitae, a publication list, a summary of past and current research expertise and interests, the names and email addresses of two persons willing to supply references, a motivation why the applicant selected this group, and the prefered starting date. The documentation had to be provided as ASCII or pdf files in email attachments or made downloadable from WWW. Microsoft Word .doc files were not accepted.