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**:
- **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.
**Industrial track**:
- **IT006: “Evolving QRNGs: higher rates from weaker assumptions”.**
Prof. Antonio Acín at ICFO and Dr. Gabriel Senno at Quside.
- **IT008: “How do crops avoid photodamage under the sun?”.**
Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Liguori ar ICFO and Dr. Marta da Silva at IRTA.
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IT009: “FPGA-based hardware acceleration for Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) emulation”.**
Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri at ICFO and Dr. Pau Gomez Kabelka at LuxQuanta.
- **IT010: “Development of Applications and Devices Based on Photonic Integrated Circuits”.**
Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri at ICFO and Dr. Norbert Kerwien at ZEISS.
- **IT011: “Novel concepts towards reliable and scalable CO2R systems ("ONTARIO")”.**
Prof. Dr. F. Pelayo García de Arquer at ICFO and Dr. Christine Gabardo at CERT Systems.
Please, browse our website for details about the research projects on offer in the **Industrial and Clinical tracks**.
**Enhanced track**:
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:
- Atto-Science, Ultrafast Optics & Nonlinear Optics
- Photovoltaics, Thermal Photonics & Solar Fuels
- Optical Sensing & Optoelectronics
- NanoPhotonics & NanoMechanics
- Ultracold Quantum Gases
- Quantum and Low-Dimensional Materials
- Quantum Communications, Sensing & Simulation
- Quantum Optics & Quantum Information
- Nanophotonics, Condensed Matter Physics & Light-Matter Interactions
- Medical Optics
Biophysics, Biophotonics & Super-Resolution Imaging- 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 the activation of the fellowship.
- Family Allowance: a one-off payment of up to 2.000€ for Fellows with family commitments to cover additional relocation expenses at recruitment. Eligibility will follow MSCA rules.
- Training and Other Costs: up to 1.800€ per year to cover training and related costs, such as registration fees, travel, and subsistence costs for participation in national or international events, conference, meetings, schools, and/or other training activities.
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