The JAE Intro grants are research career introduction grants to join a research group at a CSIC centre. This call offers 19 grants to carry out a stay at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC) in Barcelona:
- Number of grants (Training Plans): 19
- Duration: 7 months
- Remuneration: €4,200, €600/month
- Stay period: from June to December 2027
- Working hours: 20 hours per week (100% on-site)
Application Process:
- Application submission deadline: April 11th
- Applications must be submitted by the student exclusively through the online application system available on the CSIC electronic webpage (and more info): Programa_JAE
How to contact for more information?
Send an email to the Principal Investigator(s) responsible for the Training Plan copying (in cc) solicitudes.jae@iqac.csic.es. Please indicate in the email subject the reference of the training plan you are interested in joining: “JAEINT26_EX_NNNN.”, where NNNN is the reference number of the training plan, before April 8th.
Requirements
Beneficiaries must demonstrate compliance with the following requirements at the time of application:
- Be enrolled in an Official Bachelor’s Degree of 240 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) credits (hereinafter ECTS) in the 2025–2026 academic year and have successfully completed at least 180 ECTS of that degree.
- Be enrolled in an Official Bachelor’s Degree or Official Double Bachelor’s Degree of 300 ECTS or more in the 2025–2026 academic year and have successfully completed at least 240 ECTS of that degree or double degree.
- Have completed a Bachelor’s Degree and be enrolled in an Official University Master’s Degree during the 2025–2026 or 2026–2027 academic year.
- In accordance with Royal Decree 822/2021 of 28 September, which establishes the organization of university education and its quality assurance procedures:
- Demonstrate a minimum average grade of 7.50 (on a 0–10 scale, expressed to two decimal places) in their Bachelor’s or former long-cycle degree (Licenciatura), for all fields of knowledge.
- Applicants who have not yet completed their Bachelor’s Degree must demonstrate this minimum average grade based on the ECTS credits completed by the application submission deadline, within the established application period.
- Not hold, nor be in a legal position to obtain, a doctoral (PhD) degree.
- Not have previously been awarded a scholarship under the JAE Programme in earlier calls.
- Of Spanish nationality or of the Member States of the European Union and of the States signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as well as foreign nationals who meet and duly accredit the requirements at the time of submitting the application (please contact jae@iqac.csic.es for further details).
Projects
- JAEINT26_EX_0750: PhyloLUCA: machine learning insights into early life proteins.
Mentor: Maria Luisa Romero (romero@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_1339: AI in the service of Quantum Chemistry: SCOPE as an automation platform for molecular discovery.
Mentor: Sergi Vela (vela@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_1336: Engineering of extracellular vesicles and hybrid nanovesicles for the treatment of lysosomal storage diseases.
Mentor: Ibane Abasolo (abasolo@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0292: Discovery of Glycosaminoglycan Ligands Using Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry.
Mentor: Ignacio Alfonso (alfonso@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0610: Semisynthesis of the Sonic Hedgehog protein.
Mentor: Juan Bautista Blanco (blanco@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0001: Development of a New Generation of Promiscuous Artificial Biocatalysts Based on Cupin-Domain Metalloproteins.
Mentor: Pere Clapés (clapes@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0249: Coarse-Grained Molecular Modeling of PET Adsorption by Plastic-Degrading Enzymes.
Mentor: Francesco Colizzi (colizzi@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0958: One Atom Makes the Difference: Introduction to Computational Biosensor Engineering.
Mentor: Ramon Crehuet (crehuet@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0410: Innovative Medicinal Chemistry Approaches to Target Cancer Stem Cells.
Mentor: Caroline de Bem Gentz (gentz@csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0135: Biodegradable nanocarriers for siRNA: silencing of SNAP25 and modulation of hormonal secretion in neuroendocrine cancer.
Mentor: Juan Fraire (fraire@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0062: Antimicrobial polymeric materials based on PLA mixtures and biodegradable cationic amphiphiles to prevent microbial biofilm formation.
Mentor: Teresa García (garcia@csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0074: Peptide-based amphiphilic nanosystems for ocular drug delivery.
Mentor: María José Gomara (gomara@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_1400: Designing Drugs with Light: A Journey into the Photopharmacology of β Adrenoceptors.
Mentor: Xavier Gómez-Santacana (gomez@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0312: Lipid architecture and GPCR function: molecular simulation in neuronal systems.
Mentor: Ramon Guixà (guixa@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0331: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of lightresponsive molecules against cancer cells.
Mentor: Laia Josa-Culleré (josacullere@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0556: Structure-based rational design to increase enzymatic stability in biocatalysis.
Mentor: Yolanda Pérez (perez@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_1421: Innovative oleogel-based pheromone delivery systems.
Mentor: Carme Quero (quero@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0500: Designing Molecular Cages to Regulate Enzymatic Signalling Pathways.
Mentor: Jordi Solà (sola@iqac.csic.es) - JAEINT26_EX_0875: Positional isomers of fatty acids and their role in the pathogenesis of the rare neurodegenerative disease CLN1.
Mentor: Gemma Triola (triola@iqac.csic.es)