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Master Projects Fellowships at ICIQ

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
Spain
Closing date
Apr 7, 2019

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Job description

The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) establishes the Master Projects Fellowship Programme with the aim to support university graduates from all over the world to enrol in the URV / ICIQ Master in Synthesis, Catalysis and Molecular Design or other Master programmes and to follow a research project in the area of chemistry that ultimately leads to the completion of a Master Degree.

The Master programme will be developed in English and the students will take advantages of ICIQ's cutting edge facilities.

These grants are addressed to highly qualified and talented graduate students with an enthusiastic interest in chemistry research. The students will have the opportunity to join one of the research groups at the ICIQ and will follow an individual master research project under the direction of an internationally renowned group leader in a creative and stimulating scientific environment.

Selected graduate students will be awarded a scholarship for full-time studies in order to achieve the Master degree.

Available Research Projects

New catalysts for bio-inspired cyclizations.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Echavarren
  • Reference: Master 2019-01.


Heterogeneous photoelectrocatalytic water splitting: an experimental and computational approach towards catalysts and interfaces.
  • Supervisor: Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós and Prof. Núria López
  • Reference: Master 2019-02.


Electrocatalytic reductive transformation of organic compounds mediated by coordination complexes.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Julio Lloret
  • Reference: Master 2019-03.


Computational photocatalysis.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Feliu Maseras
  • Reference: Master 2019-04.


Rational Design and Development of Innovative Cobalt-catalyzed Transformations.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano
  • Reference: Master 2019-05.


Benefits

Awardees will receive a scholarship of 750 €/month to help for their living expenses during the academic course.

On acceptance of the grants, awardees should hand in a copy of the enrolment document to a Master Programme. The applicant must include a copy of the voluntary insurance contracted when applying to the master program.

The Master programme enrolment costs will not be covered by ICIQ.

The beneficiary will sign a scholarship credential with ICIQ.

Application details

The evaluation and selection of the candidates will be performed by the Human Resources team, and the Master project supervisor following this procedure:

Submitted proposals will be checked for eligibility and those not fulfilling all the criteria will be rejected. There will not be the possibility to modify the application or to add missing documentation after the call deadline.

The selection will be merit-based according to the evaluation criteria described in Section III.

At the late stages of the selection process, short-listed candidates will be contacted for a personal interview.

All applicants will be notified of the final selection decision by the middle of May, 2019. The name of the awardees will be published on the ICIQ's website.

The ICIQ follows in its selection process a gender equally opportunity policy and a non-discrimination policy on the basis of age, ethnic or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, language and disability.

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