8 funded PhD positions available within the ICFOstepstone fellowship program

ICFO is offering 8 PhD positions to well-qualified graduate students, who wish to obtain a doctoral degree in any of the research fields covered at ICFO.

The positions are offered in the scope of the ICFOstepstone Program, a MSCA-COFUND action of the European Commission, awarding INCOMING Fellowships to outstanding graduate students. The program will bring together top-level training and teaching for young scientists in a stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment. It will offer the possibility of mobility within a network of excellence, consisting in partners of national and international research institutes and universities, as well as industrial partners in the field.

PhD students at ICFO benefit from the extensive course offerings of local universities and focused instruction by ICFO professors. Research is carried out at ICFO.

Fellowships will be offered across all ICFO research groups in the following research areas:

• Biophysics & Biomedical Optics
• Optical Sensing, Optoelectronics & Photovoltaics
• Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Optics & Atto-Physics
• Nanophotonics, Optomechanics & Nanomechanics
• Experimental Quantum Optics & Quantum Information
• Theoretical Nanophotonics, Quantum Optics & Quantum Information

For information about our research groups and teams, please see the website.

Note that in addition to the ICFOstepstone COFUND positions, additional internal ICFO PhD group positions might become available, for which we may retain candidates applying to this present opening.

Further information about our PhD- and Fellowship program is available here.