ICMAB Open Positions

We're hiring! New PhD positions within the Severo Ochoa programme 2025 at ICMAB

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

The ICMAB opens a Severo Ochoa call to apply for a PhD position within the Agencia Estatal de Investigación. It has a total of 8 PhD candidates offers!

These PhD positions are funded under the “Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence” accreditation granted to ICMAB-CSIC by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), and co-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the CEX2023 and CEX2024 calls. This recognition allows ICMAB to recruit young researchers in its strategic research lines — Materials for Energy, Materials for Electronics, and Materials for Health — reinforcing its commitment to cutting-edge training and scientific excellence

The 8 PhD positions are distributed as follows: 4 in the Materials for Energy line, 2 in Materials for Electronics, and 2 in Materials for Health, all within the framework of our Severo Ochoa programme.

Research Projects and supervisors

The 4 different PhD projects in the Materials for Energy line are supervised, respectively, by:

Alejandro Goñi and Mª Isabel Carmona, of the NANOPTO group
Sebastián Reparaz and Riccardo Rurali, of the NANOPTO and LEEM groups respectively
Ana López and Eniko Gyorgy, of the SSC and LASER groups respectively
Teresa Puig and Kapil Gupta, of the SUMAN group and ICN2, respectively

The 2 projects in the Materials for Electronics line are supervised by:

Marta Mas and Esther Barrena, of the SURFACES and eMolMat groups, respectively
Alberto Pomar and Benjamín Martínez, of the ACNM group

Finally, the 2 projects in the Materials for Health line are supervised by:

Arántzazu González and Rosario Núñez, of the FunNanoSurf and LMI groups, respectively
Judith Guasch and Gerard Tobías, of the DBCI and SSC groups, respectively

Requirements for the candidates

Candidates must have a university degree and a master degree; or must hold an official university qualification from a country of the European Higher Education Area with a minimum of 300 ECTS of official university studies, of which at least 60 are at masters’ level.
Candidates must have a strong commitment to scientific research and an excellent academic record.
Candidates must have good working knowledge of English.
Candidates must not have benefited from a predoctoral training grant under the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation or any of the previous National Plans.

For other requirements, please read carefully the application call.

How to apply

Deadline to apply is the 1st of October!

Applications should be submitted via this link (CSIC).

You can contact the projects' supervisors for information on each specific project.