In the face of growing water scarcity, pollution poses a significant threat to organism health. We will assess the neuroactive substance presence in Barcelona tap water, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial products.

Using zebrafish and Daphnia magna as model organisms, we will conduct a multivariate study to characterize and predict the behavioural effects of these substances that target the central nervous system. Our investigation will explore potential impairments that may render organisms unable to respond effectively to threats.

Health is the most important element in our lives. Money, fame, and possessions are only relevant when good health allows it to be enjoyed. The evolution of healthcare systems is now more relevant than it has ever been, and surgery has not remain distant to such transformation.

By immersing yourself in the general surgery department of a high complexity hospital, this project will provide you the opportunity to learn about the role of surgeons, and will bring you closer to the surgery of the future and how it will be shaped by innovation and new technologies.

Do you accept the challenge?

We live and work in places where we like to be comfortable and enjoy a healthy and pleasant environment. Sound, and noise, have a great importance in how we feel in our home or an office, even having effects in our health.

The brilliant architect Gaudí already considered this, and in La Pedrera-Casa Milà, his last residential building, he applied inspiring techniques to face this challenge. By analysing his work, and using modern engineering knowledge and techniques, we can learn how to improve our lives through an architecture that takes acoustic comfort into account.

Are you ready to learn from an architectural genius and take a look at how future architecture and engineering can improve our daily lives?

Chemistry plays a crucial role in addressing the main global challenges, by designing new appealing materials with crucial applications in the field of sustainable energy, industry and medicine. 

At ICIQ, you will gain a multidisciplinary training in synthetic chemistry, materials science, quantum physics and optoelectronics.

Working as real a scientist, you will have the opportunity to design, assemble and analyze different experimental setups for the characterization of materials and chemical reactions.

Are you ready for this challenge?

Almost 70% of adults will suffer a highly stressful experience in their life. Stress and trauma are everywhere around us, affecting our body, brain, and emotions. During this project, students will learn about the impact of stress on the brain, using state-of-the-art techniques and collaborating with scientists in their day-to-day. Also, they will acquire data processing and analysis skills which are crucial for any modern scientist.

Did you know that researchers have been working with fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) for more than a hundred years as a means to model and study human diseases? Probably the similarities between humans and fruit flies is something that was not going through your head when you thought about cancer research. But fear not! If you would like to find out how this is achieved and discover why and how we use this little animal for biomedical research, join us! In this project, we will show you how we use Drosophila as a model to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying tumor development in epithelial tissues. Are you in?

Tons of human-generated waste have found their way into the oceans. In particular, plastic waste is extremely difficult to degrade naturally (up to 500 years lifetime) and interfere with the ocean’s flora and fauna.

By engineering plastic-degrading enzymes we could gain an invaluable tool to fight this environmental catastrophe.

Learn how through enzyme engineering we can save our oceans!

Quantum physics challenges our intuition, but at the same time allows us to understand our world, to develop some important technologies of the present (like lasers, LEDs or transistors) and to foresee astonishing technologies for the future (like quantum computers and communications).

We invite you to take a journey through the quantum world, where we will face the basic rules of quantum physics to better understand how they can help us build the technologies of the future.

Will you join us?