Fellowships for the Training of Pre-doctoral Researchers. FPI-ICIQ Call 2025

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Fellowships for the Training of Pre-doctoral Researchers. FPI-ICIQ Call

The FPI-ICIQ Call targets outstanding postgraduate students worldwide to support their participation in a training and research programme in chemistry, ultimately leading to a Doctoral Thesis. The Doctoral Thesis will be linked to a research project funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, la Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and the Fondo Social Europeo (FSE+) under the framework of the Call of Proyectos de Generación del Conocimiento.

The PhD students granted 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 : , hands-on training in the use of state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation, IP management, entrepreneurship, research integrity, knowledge and technology transfer, grant applications, project management, communication skills and career development. ICIQ provides a personalized annual training program for PhD students called SHARP (Severo Ochoa PhD Training Program), which occurs over two weeks each academic year, and focuses on their specific 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 strong interest in research in Chemistry or related fields. Candidates should have an excellent academic record, a deep 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.

I. Available positions : See Annex 1

V.Fellowship Conditions

The gross annual salary will be divided into twelve monthly payments. At the time of publishing this call, the gross monthly salary is set at 24.,77 euros. This amount may be adjusted in the event of an increase in the remuneration established by the Statute of Predoctoral Research Staff in Training (EPIF). In any case, the remuneration of the contract may not be lower than 75% of the salary established for equivalent categories under the applicable collective agreements during any of the funded years. It shall also not be lower than the minimum interprofessional wage established annually, under Article 27 of the Revised Text of the Workers’ Statute Law.

To determine these remunerations, the minimum reference category shall be that corresponding to Professional Group M3 of labour personnel. The provisions of Article 12.4 of the call for “Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento” shall also apply.

VI. Scientific reporting of the actions for the training of predoctoral researchers associated with the projects.

Pre-doctoral researchers in training are required to report their activities and achieved objectives to the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. They must use the templates available on the website of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Researchers are obligated to submit two reports : one intermediate report due at month 20 of the fellowship and a final report that covers the entire duration of the fellowship, including the POP phase, if applicable.

Annex 1 : Available positions

Supervisor : Prof. José Ramon Galan Mascarós

Project (PID) : Towards Ammonia Production from Dinitrogen at low temperature and pressure with catalysts based on non-critical raw materials ( TAPN2 )

PID Project Reference : PID-NB-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -01 JR

Supervisor : Prof. Núria López Alonso

Project (PID) : Artificial Intelligence for the Simulation of Materials in Energy ( ANIMATE )

PID Project Reference : PID-OB-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -02 NL

Supervisor : Dr. Luis Escobar González

Project (PID) : Modulation of the Conformational and Self-Assembly Characteristics of Biological Oligomers by a Supramolecular Host-Guest Approach ( CONSUPRA )

PID Project Refence : PID-NA-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -03 LE

Supervisor : Prof. Beatriz Prieto Simón

Project (PID) : Multi-functional sensors to guide antibiotic therapy ( Sens2Therapy )

PID Project Reference : PID-OB-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -04 BP

Supervisor : Prof. Rubén Martín Romo

Project (PID) : Forging sp3 Architectures by Harnessing the Potential of Multifaceted Metal Catalysts ( CAT-FUN )

PID Project Reference : PID-NB-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -05 RM

Supervisor : Prof. Jordi Burés Amat

Project (PID) : Mechanistic Insights into Homogeneous Catalyst Activation and Deactivation Pathways ( MechCAD )

PID Project Reference : PID-NB-I00

Number of positions : 1

Reference : FPI-ICIQ -06 BU

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Funding category

Public funding alone (i.e. government, region, European, international organization research grant)

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