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 is January 27, 2022.

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.

• Long COVID among healthcare workers: a new public health challenge. PI: Fernando G. Benavides, Centre for Research in Occupational Health. 

• PhD position in Next generation machine learning potentials for molecular simulations. PI: Gianni de Fabritiis. Computational Biophysics group.

• Spatiotemporal resolution of exocytosis by integrative structural biology and advanced microscopy. PI: Oriol Gallego, Live-cell Structural Biology group.

• Pre-clinical in vivo validation of novel analgesics. PI: Rafael Maldonado, Neuropharmacology group.

• Computational PhD on genomic variation on full genomes of non-human primates, their origin using paleoproteomics and their impact on gene regulation. PI: Tomàs Marquès, Comparative Genomics group.

• Deciphering the basis of stem cell aging. PI: Pura Muñoz, Cell Biology Group.

• Structural modelling of regulatory complexes to predict epigenetic DNA-binding modulation. PI: Baldomero Oliva, Structural Bioinformatics group.

• Cell type specific chromatin structure and type 1 diabetes. PI: Lorenzo Pasquali, Endocrine regulatory genomics group.

• Zinc-based nutritional immunity to reduce infections’ severity. PI: Rubén Vicente, Biophysics of the immune system 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 is February 16, 2022.

The doctoral INPhINIT fellowships offer a highly competitive salary and complementary opportunities for training on transferable 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.