7 predoctoral contracts for doctoral training at INMA

The Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA) is looking for young people interested in doing their doctoral thesis in one of the following areas:

Stimuli-responsive films for CO2 capture and environmental remediation – 2 contracts
Nanomaterials for biomedicine – 3 contracts
Hybrid Quantum Technologies – 2 contracts

INMA, a joint institute of the Spanish National Research Council and of the University of Zaragoza, located in the city of Zaragoza, offers the opportunity to train in an environment of academic and research excellence, and to specialize in cutting-edge areas of great scientific and social interest.

CONDITIONS
4 years of contract for the completion of the doctoral thesis within the framework of Severo Ochoa projects.

REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES
Candidates must:

hold a university degree in any branch of Natural Sciences or Engineering, including Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biology, Chemical Engineering, etc.
have completed a Master’s degree before the start date of the contract, expected from January 2026.

PROCEDURE AND DEADLINES
Telematic submission of applications by candidates:

Deadline: to be informed later
It is only possible to select a single project from the project listings in this call.
Details of the specific thesis projects and their tutors for the 7 contracts in the areas indicated above are as follows. (Download the list).

*REFERENCE ()**	PRIORITY LINE	THESIS PROJECT ()**	THESIS SUPERVISORS
SO_PREX2023-1	RAL1.1 High-performance molecular separation devices for CO2 capture	Membranas híbridas ultradelgadas sensibles a estímulos basadas en MOF y cristales líquidos para la captura eficiente de CO2	Beatriz Zornoza & Alberto Concellón
PREX2023-1	RAL 1.2 CO2 conversion using renewable electricity as energy input	Síntesis y caracterización avanzada de materiales catalíticos para procesos químicos activados por microondas	Reyes Mallada & Vera Cuartero
PREX2023-1		Eliminación fotocatalítica de CO2 inducida por láser	Luis Alberto Angurel y Francisco Balas
PREX2023-2	RAL 2.1 Advanced materials for pancreatic cancer treatment based on Bioorthogonal Catalysis.	Vectores híbridos catalíticos recubiertos con membranas celulares y vesículas extracelulares para el tratamiento de cáncer de páncreas	María Sancho & Luis Hueso
PREX2023-2		Terapias combinatorias avanzadas: biocatálisis bioortogonal nanoactuable y enfoques sinérgicos para el tratamiento anti-tumoral y anti-fibrótico en cáncer de páncreas	Valeria Grazú & Carlos Sánchez Somolinos
PREX2023-3	RAL2.2 Synergistic nanoformulations for targeting and preventing the spread of multidrug-resistant infectious diseases	Nanoformulaciones con direccionamiento activo dual, basado en química bioortogonal, contra bacterias patógenas para evitar farmacorresistencia	Milagros Piñol & Manuel Arruebo
PREX2023-3		Nanoengineered synergistic formulations for water purification: Targeting multidrug-resistant pathogens and preventing their spread	Scott G. Mitchell & Jonas Gurauskis
PREX2023-4	RAL 2.3 Ultrasensitive PoC Nanosensors for monitoring real-time therapy resistance	BACTSense	Jesús Martínez de la Fuente & Pilar Pina
SO_PREX2023-2	RAL3.1 Quantum Sensors	Sensores cuánticos de EPR para aplicaciones biomédicas	María Moros & Inés García
SO_PREX2023-2	RAL3.1 Quantum Sensors	Transition edge sensors as photon counting devices for quantum technologies	Carlos Pobes & Sergio Gutiérrez
PREX2023-5	RAL 3.2 Hybrid quantum processor	Integración controlada de qubits moleculares en circuitos superconductores mediante litografía de sonda local e impresión por aerosol	Olivier Roubeau & Ainhoa Urtizberea
PREX2023-5	RAL 3.2 Hybrid quantum processor	Quantum properties of two-dimensional arrays of rare earth atoms in contact with superconducting surfaces	David Serrate & Jorge Lobo

Notes on the table:
(*) Each Reference has only one FPI contract associated with it.
(**) At the conclusion of the selection process, the selected candidate will be able to choose one of the two thesis projects associated with the reference chosen.

If the candidate is a resident in Spain, he/she must have an electronic signature in order to submit the application.

Inquiries:

– For more information about the thesis projects, contact the corresponding tutors (their e-mail addresses can be found on the INMA website https://inma.unizar-csic.es/directorio ).

– Specific instructions on how to apply will be published at a later date.

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22/07/2025

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