FPIICIQ Pre-Doctoral Fellowships 2024

The FPIICIQ 2024 Call is aimed at exceptional graduate students from all over the world to support their enrolment in a training and research programme in the field of chemistry ultimately leading to the completion of a Doctoral Thesis in partnership with the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The Doctoral Thesis will be associated with a research project financed by the Ministerio de Ciencia Innovacin y Universidades la Agencia Estatal de Investigacin and the Fondo Social Europeo (FSE) in the framework of the Call 2023 of Proyectos de Generacin del Conocimiento (PID 2023).

The selected PhD students will have the opportunity to develop their professional careers in the fields of academia and industry. This objective is achieved by:

• The performance of an individual research project under the direction of an internationally renowned Group Leader in a creative and stimulating scientific environment.
• A complementary training programme in both technical and soft skills. The educational framework is designed to ensure a successful career: scientific seminars handson training in the use of stateoftheart scientific instrumentation IP management entrepreneurship research integrity knowledge and technology transfer grant applications project management communication skills and career development. ICIQ offers a yearly personalized training programme for PhD students SHARP which takes place during the course of 2 weeks with training focused on their given PhD year.
• Opportunities for short stays in distinguished international research institutions.

The programme is addressed to highly qualified motivated and talented graduate students with a keen interest in research in Chemistry or adjacent areas. Candidates should have an excellent academic record a strong commitment to scientific research and a solid working knowledge of English.

The process of evaluation and selection guarantees the principles of competition publicity and transparency.

Admission to the programme is on a competitive basis.

Only one application per person will be considered. In case of multiple applications only the first application submitted will be taken into consideration.

Please refer to the attached calldocument with detailed information on the available positions the grant conditions application documents and the fellowship eligibility criteria.

ICIQ follows in its selection process a gender equality opportunity policy and a nondiscrimination policy on the basis of age ethnic or social origin religion or belief sexual orientation language and disability.

ICIQ is committed to promoting a worklife balance for its employees and as such offers flexible working hours.

Available positions

Supervisor: Prof. Pablo Ballester Balaguer

Project PID: Molecular clefts cavitands and cages derived from calix4pyrroles: synthesis and studies of their applications (mocacube)

Project PID Reference: PIDNBI00

Number of positions: 1

Reference: FPIICIQ 202401 (PB)

Supervisor: Prof. Arjan W. Kleij

Project PID: Advancing MetalAssisted Transformations of Functionalized Heterocycles into Novel Stereodefined Scaffolds (AVANTGARDE)

Project PID Reference: PIDNBI00

Number of positions: 1

Reference: FPIICIQ 202402 (AK)

Supervisor: Prof. Mnica H. Prez Temprano

Project PID: Expanding the chemical space of cobalt synthetic and mechanistic tactics: From Fundamentals to Catalysis (COMET)

Project PID Reference: PIDNBI00

Number of positions: 1

Reference: FPIICIQ 202403 (MH)