Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) Areas of research: Functional Materials and Nanomaterials for Energy, Electronics and Nanomedicine. Location: Barcelona Website: icmab.es; Contact: msalas@icmab.es
ICMAB, Centre of Excellence Severo Ochoa, is an internationally recognized Research Institute located in the Campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). After three decades, the Institute still keeps its initial enthusiasm in cutting-edge research, which makes it a very attractive place to work for both, young and experienced researchers. ICMAB’s mission is to generate new knowledge in Materials Science and to transfer it to the society. Training students and outreach activities are also priorities of the centre. The Institute research is focused in functionalized materials and nanomaterials to face three of the main challenges of this century: clean and secure energy, low cost and sustainable electronics and smart nanomedicine. The Institute is organized in 14 Research Groups formed by highly motivated and qualified researchers, which are working on both basic and applied research in five main general topics or Research Lines: • RL1: Sustainable energy conversion and storage systems, • RL2: Superconductors for power applications, • RL3: Oxide electronics, • RL4: Molecular electronics, • RL5: Multifunctional nanostructured biomaterials. Out of the nearly 300 employees, 57 are permanent scientists and more than 150 are postdoc and PhD researchers. There are also many master and undergraduate students carrying out their University projects. ICMAB includes renowned top level CSIC and ICREA (Catalan Institution of Advanced Research and Studies) researchers, 9 ERC granted projects, and many MSCA granted fellows. The research activities are strongly backed up by the state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation and specialized technical staff of our Scientific Services. In addition, the Institute participates in the NFFA European platform for the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials.
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