The doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship programme call is now open
The doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship programme call is now open
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. This programme is divided into two different frames:
Doctorate INPhINIT Incoming
PhD fellowships for researchers willing to carry out their PhD project in research centres accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence Severo Ochoa, María de Maeztu or Health Institute Carlos III and Portuguese units accredited as “excellent” according to the evaluation of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia.
This frame is addressed exclusively to STEM disciplines: life sciences and health, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics. For doing their research in Spanish institutions, candidates must have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for less than 12 months in the last 3 years. More information can be found here.
Deadline for submitting applications 4 February, 2021.
See below the 10 DCEXS projects offered within the INPhINIT Incoming:
- Cell cycle control: generation of an integrative map of genetic regulators of DNA synthesis and tumor progression factors. PI: José Ayté, Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Research Group.
- Graphical Markov models in single cells. PI: Robert Castelo, Functional Genomics Group.
- Healthcare workers cohort study at the PSMar (Barcelona). PI: Fernando G. Benavides, Centre for Research in Occupational Health.
- Role of dynamic environmental embedding in biological computation. PI: Jordi G. Ojalvo, Dynamical Systems Biology lab.
- Precise editing of mammalian genomes. PI: Marc Güell, Translational Synthetic Biology group.
- Deconstructing p53-activated DNA repair mechanisms for tumor suppression. PI: Ana Janic, Cancer biology.
- ‘Gastruloid’, a Pluripotent Stem Cell (PSCs) based system to study early mammalian development. PI: Alfonso Martínez-Arias.
- Decoding the dynamics of neuronal progenitors during brain development in 4D. PI: Cristina Pujades, Development of the Vertebrate Central Nervous System.
- Beyond nanoTARG’s technology towards suppression cancer PROgression (nanoTARG-pro). PI: Pilar Rivera, Integrative Biomedical Materials and Nanomedicine Lab.
- The alteration of circadian rhythms in the manifestation of major depression. PI: Olga Valverde, Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group.
Doctorate INPhINIT Retaining
PhD fellowships for researchers willing to carry out their PhD project in any research domain and any university or research center in Spain or Portugal. Candidates must have resided or carried out their main activity in the same country, either Spain, or Portugal, more than 12 months in the last 3 years.
All the DCEXS groups are open to candidates through the Retaining frame. More information can be found here.
Deadline for submitting applications 25 February, 2021.
The doctoral INPhINIT fellowships offer a highly competitive salary and complementary opportunities for training on transferrable skills (in annual training sessions), temporary stays in industry, incentives upon completion of the thesis, among other elements that make these fellowships some of the most attractive and complete in Europe.