Specific open positions
Since these positions depend on the availability of open calls for grants, we recommend contacting us well in advance of the ideal date you would like to start working with us. Please send your application.
There may be other positions avalaible, which are are usually related to competitive grants that can be solicited at different times during the academic year.
The research program “Cell and tissue mechanobiology”@LaCàN-UPC offers two 4-year FPI fellowships for a PhD in the area of mathematical and computational modeling of living matter. These fellowships offer the opportunity to carry out international research stays. The groups involved perform state-of-the-art research in this multidisciplinary field with close experimental collaborators in BCN and elsewhere:
Pablo Sáez (UPC), “Multi-scale and multi-physics modelling in mechanobiology”
Marino Arroyo (UPC, CIMNE, IBEC), “Mechanics of soft and living interfaces”
Fellowship #1: Bio-chemo-mechanics at sub-cellular scales with the active behavior of living tissues using multi scale modeling (UPC)
Fellowship #2: Reverse engineering biological interfaces using mathematical and computational modeling: from living cells to bio-inspired artificial materials (CIMNE, linked to Severo Ochoa award)
For candidates doing their MS at the UPC, we can offer a paid internship (“beca d’iniciació a la recerca”) towards your thesis.
Starting date: Fall 2021
Application deadline: the official deadline is Oct 27 2020 but you are strongly encouraged to contact pablo.saez@upc.edu or marino.arroyo@upc.edu as soon as possible with a presentation paragraph, a CV, and transcripts.
Regional, state and European opportunities
There is a number of regional, state and European opportunities that opens regularly once per year. We encourage motivated student and researcher to contact us if you are interested in joining the LaCàN with these grants.
Grants for the recruitment of early-stage research staff (FI):
This call for grants is co-financed with the European Social Fund. To award grants to universities, research centres and/or hospital foundations to recruit early-stage research staff and promote research quality by means of the the incorporation of this staff in research groups that develop a current and funded R&D project.
Call for the incorporation of research personnel in training (FPI-UPC) for the completion of the doctoral thesis at the UPC. Opens once per year during summer.
Postdoctoral grant Beatriu de Pinós (BP):
The purpose of the Beatriu de Pinós programme is to award 60 individual grants for the employment and incorporation of postdoctoral research staff into the Catalan science and technology system.
Postdoctoral grant Juan de la Cierva:
The goal of this call is to encourage the recruitment of young doctors for a period of two years so that they complete their postdoctoral research training in Spanish R & D centers other than those in which they carried out their predoctoral training.
Predoctoral contracts for the training of PhD students (FPI):
The aids aim to train doctors through the financing of labor contracts, under the predoctoral contract modality, so that researchers in training carry out a doctoral thesis associated with a research project funded by the aid for R&D projects from the “Ministerio Economia, Industria y Competitividad (Agencia Estatal de Investigación)”.
PhD Training Grants for University Teaching Staff (FPU):
Destined to the research training in doctoral programs for the achievement of the Doctoral Degree and the acquisition of university teaching competencies, in any area of scientific knowledge, that facilitate the future incorporation of these people into the Spanish system of higher education.
INPhINIT fellowship program by “La Caixa Foundation”
INPhINIT is a new doctoral fellowship programme devoted to attracting international Early-Stage Researchers to the top Spanish research centres in the areas of Bio and Health Sciences, Physics, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
PhD grants by the “la Caixa” Foundation:
“La Caixa” Foundation: offers 20 fellowships to carry out a doctorate at Spanish universities and research centres
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PhD Funding:
MSCA funding for PhD students is offered within university partnerships called Innovative Training Networks (ITN). The purpose of the scheme is to bring together organisations such as Universities, SMEs (small/medium enterprises), public and private (non-commercial) research centres, non-profit organisations etc. in order to train early-stage researchers in professional environments. In doing so, researchers gain the opportunity to develop themselves through a series of individual projects as set out by the partnership (ITN) the student applies to.
General open positions
We encourage motivated candidates with excellent academic credentials to send inquiries about possible open calls. We will provide information on the different possibilities and we will assist selected candidates in the application process for grants suited for their needs.
In case you are interested in those positions, please send us your application to contact.lacan@upc.edu with the keyword “Postdoc application” or “PhD application” in the subject following the instructions here below.