Up to 12 Phd-positions Available Within The Flight

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-program brings together _top-level training and teaching for young scientists_, benefiting from the extensive course offerings of local universities and focused instruction by ICFO professors, _in a stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment_. PhD-students have the opportunity to take advantage of our _network of excellence_, consisting in partners of national and international research institutes and universities, as well as industrial partners in the field.

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 Clinical and Industrial tracks on offer in this call are the following:
**Clinical track:
- **CT003: “Prefrontal brain activity to understand and act against the development of dementia in aging”.**
Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Marco Inzitari at Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili (Barcelona).
- **CT004: “Accelerating therapy development for neuromuscular diseases”.**
Prof. Dr. Pablo Loza-Álvarez at ICFO and Dr. Cecilia Jimenez Mallebera at Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu.
- **CT005: “Transcranial, cot-side neuromonitoring for personalizing pediatric management”.**
Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Marta Camprubi, Dr. Joan Sanchez and Dr. Carme Fons at Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu.
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CT006: “Quantitative evaluation of endothelial and microvascular function at the critical care: new technologies shedding light to critical diseases”.**
Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Jaume Mesquida at Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí.
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CT007: “Non-invasive, near-infrared spectroscopies for monitoring and understanding the effects physical activity on the muscles and the brain”.**
Prof. Dr. Turgut Durduran at ICFO and Dr. Albert Busquets at INEFC.

**Industrial track**:

- **IT003: “New Methods and Protocols for Quantum Random Number Generation”.**
Prof. Dr. Antonio Acín at ICFO and Dr. Gabriel Senno at QUSIDE.
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IT004: “Development of detectors and image sensors based on quantum dot technology”.**
Prof. Dr Gerasimos Konstantatos at ICFO and Dr. Stijn Goossens at Qurv.
- **IT005: “Fabrication and characterization of high-performance transparent organic solar cells”.**
Prof. Dr. Jordi Martorell at ICFO and Dr. Sergi Cuesta at Vitsolc.
Please, browse our website for details about the research projects on offer in the **Industrial and Clinical tracks**.

**Enhanced track**:
Up to 4 fellowships are available to work with one of ICFO’s 25 Research Groups

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:

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

Please, browse our website for details about
- FLIGHT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101081441

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- Have an excellent academic record, previous research experience and a strong commitment for scientific research.
- Have a high working knowledge of English.

**Specific Eligibility Requirements for FLIGHT**

**CONDITIONS**

ICFO PhD Fellowships are offered for a period of 4.5 years. The **conditions** of the positions awarded in the scope of the ICFO PhD fellowship program are as follows:

- All ICFO fellowships include medical are coverage and work accident insurance through the Spanish Social Security system, providing access to the Spanish public health care system.
- Relocation Allowance: a one-off payment of up to 2.000€ to cover relocation expenses at recruitment.
- Family Allowance: a one-off payment of up to 2.000€ for Fellows w