Up to 8 PhD-positions available within the FLIGHT fellowship program (MSCA-COFUND action)

DESCRIPTION

ICFO offers PhD-fellowship positions to well-qualified graduate students, who wish to obtain a doctoral degree in any of the research topics covered at ICFO.

The positions are offered in the scope of the FLIGHT Program, a MCSA-COFUND doctoral program explicitly focused on intersectoral research training in collaboration with Industrial or Clinical Partners.

Our PhD Fellowship Program welcomes applications from individuals with a degree in a field of mathematics, science, engineering or medical sciences related to the ICFO research activities.

Recruited Fellows will have a choice of 3 PhD tracks:

• Clinical to develop a project in collaboration with one of Clinical Partners
• Industrial to develop a project in collaboration with one of Industrial Partners
• Enhanced to develop a project with one of ICFO’s Research Groups

Fellows in the Industrial and Clinical tracks will be embedded in both organisations, undertaking secondments of 6-18 months at the Partner during their Fellowship.

Research projects in the Industrial and Clinical tracks on offer in this call are the following:

Industrial track:

• IT004: “Development of detectors and image sensors based on quantum dot technology”. Dr Gerasimos Konstantatos at ICFO and Dr. Stijn Goossens at Qurv.
• IT006: “Evolving QRNGs: higher rates from weaker assumptions”. Antonio Acín at ICFO and Dr. Gabriel Senno at Quside.
• IT007: “Ultrafast Photon Counting Arrays For Spatio-Temporal Microscopy” Dr. Niek van Hulst at ICFO and Dr. Jürgen Breitlow at PicoQuant GmbH.

Clinical track:

• CT003: “Prefrontal brain activity to understand and act against the development of dementia in aging” Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Marco Inzitari at Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili (Barcelona).
• CT005: “Transcranial, cot-side neuromonitoring for personalizing pediatric management” Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Marta Camprubi, Dr. Joan Sanchez and Dr. Carme Fons at Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu.
• CT006: “Quantitative evaluation of endothelial and microvascular function at the critical care: new technologies shedding light to critical diseases” Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Jaume Mesquida at Institut d'Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí.

For candidates applying for a research project(s) in the Clinical track, a clinical background in neuropsychology, medicine, biology, etc. will be valued.

Please, browse our website for details about the research projects on offer in the Industrial and Clinical tracks.

Enhanced track:

Up to 2 fellowships are available to work with one of ICFO’s 25 Research Groups Note that the Selection Committee may recommend the allocation of additional fellowships in case there are additional outstanding candidates.

Research lines in the Enhanced track will be offered across all ICFO research groups. Research lines include, but are not limited to theoretical and experimental aspects of:

• Ultracold Quantum Gases
• Quantum and Low-Dimensional Materials
• Quantum Communications, Sensing & Simulation
• Quantum Optics & Quantum Information
• Atto-Science, Ultrafast Optics& Nonlinear Optics 
• Photovoltaics, Thermal Photonics & Solar Fuels
• Optical Sensing & Optoelectronics
• NanoPhotonics & NanoMechanics
• Nanophotonics, Condensed Matter Physics & Light-Matter Interactions 
• Medical Optics
• Biophysics, Biophotonics & Super-Resolution Imaging

Please, browse our website for details about ICFO Research Groups and Group Leaders at https://www.icfo.eu/research/groups/. If you are interested in discussing possible research topics, please contact ICFO Group Leaders directly.

We look forward to receiving your applications. For applications and further information about eligibility requirements, conditions and selection process please visit: https://jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=875

Deadline for applications: February 19, 2024.

For complete information visit the FLIGHT fellowship program website

FLIGHT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101081441