Mobility Actions, Training and Internationalization

ICMAB offers an excellent and solid scientific and technologic interdisciplinary training developed in an international environment, either for undergraduate, master students, PhD fellows, and postdoctoral researchers.

During 2017 there were 97 PhD fellows at ICMAB, 57 postdocs and 27 undergraduate and master students. Apart from the supervised guidance from the scientists, the Institute offers a continuous program of seminars and workshops to meet the demands of both staff and students.

PhD theses

  • In total, by the end of 2017 the ICMAB graduates amounted 240.
  • 15 PhD theses were defended in 2017

Seminars

We hosted many seminars during 2017:
  • 19 ICMAB Periodical Lectures
  • 22 Invited Seminars
  • Four special seminars on patents, nanotechnology risks and women in science:
    • Gender and class inequality in social networking sites (9 Feb): 60 attendees
    • FUNMAT Seminar: Basic concepts in patents: a practical approach (June): 30 attendees
    • Seminar “The risks of nanotechnology” (17 July): 50 attendees
    • "Re-reading Curie" by Xavier Roqué (19 Dec): 60 attendees

Conferences and meetings

The researchers have presented their results in more than 95 international meetings and 19 national meetings, and organized 5 international and 3 national conferences. In addition, they organized 2 annual meetings, participated in the SOMMa meeting and organized a meeting between illustrators and scientists:
  • NANOSELECT NOE Annual Meeting (10-12 July): 4 invited lectures, 24 talks by ICMAB researchers, 47 posters, organized by RL1, RL2 and RL3 researchers.
  • 100xciencia.2: Co-creating value. Meeting of Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu Centers focused on technology transfer on 2017 (2-3 Nov)
  • Scientific Meeting of BNC-b PhD Students (7-8 Nov): 78 participants (49 posters, 29 talks), organized by PhD fellows of ICMAB, ICN2, UAB, ALBA Synchrotron, IMB‐CNM (Barcelona NANOCLUSTER)
  • Meeting between Illustrators and Scientists (29 Nov): 40 attendees

Courses and Workshops

We have organized 2 workshops, 4 courses and 1 summer school in 2017:
  • III Workshop on Materials Characterization by Diffraction Methods (23 Jan)
  • Workshop of the series Accelerator Magnets in High Temperature Superconductors (15-17 Feb)
  • “Effective presentations, effective meetings and negotiation” course IL3 (April-June): 15 attendees, 6 sessions
  • Course on emotional education (May): 30 attendees, 5 sessions
  • Course of Advanced Web of Science (22 Nov)
  • English courses: 50 attendees, several schedules.
  • Summer School Materials for Biomedical Applications: MATBIO2017 (19-22 June): 16 invited speakers, 52 attendees from 18 Institutions (56 % female), 63 % PhD fellows, 22 % Master students, 11 % Postdoctoral fellows and 4 % Undergraduate, organized by RL5 researchers.

Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Campus de la UAB 08193 Bellaterra, SPAIN

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