The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT ”la Caixa” is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers—of any nationality—who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Spanish or Portuguese territory. Sponsored by ”la Caixa” Foundation, it is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain and Portugal by recruiting outstanding international students and offering them an attractive and competitive environment for conducting research of excellence.

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona is a research centre accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence María de Maeztu in 2020, the perfect place to carry out your PhD project through an INPhINIT Incoming fellowship. The Institute is offering ten different projects:

• Axions as Dark Matter: experimental detection and dynamics in the Milky Way
• Constraining binary black hole mergers from star clusters
• High Performance Computing for Nuclear Physics in and beyond the Standard Model
• Holography in the Gravitational Wave era
• M dwarfs activity from a CubeSat (MACU)
• Mining the Gaia catalogue: structure and kinematics of the Milky Way and the LMC
• Quantum machine learning to detect Dark Matter with atomic nuclei
• Solid state Entangled Photon Source for Earth and Space use
• The physics of flavour and its connection to dark matter searches
• Ultracold dipolar bosons trapped in quantum circuits

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. For more information on the application procedure, please refer to this document.

Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org.

Deadline

Please submit your applications by January 27th 2022. 

Contact: secretaria@icc.ub.edu

For more information, please visit this website.

Funding:This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.