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The EMBL-IBEC Winter Conference comes to an end with a huge success in terms of participation
This week, the conference organised by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) brought together a total of 200 international experts in the field of bioengineering at La Pedrera building in Barcelona.
At the opening of the event, which was led by the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, attention was drawn to Barcelona’s consolidation as an international centre of research and knowledge.
IBEC PhD Programme 2020
Application Deadline: 25/03/2020
In the framework of the Severo Ochoa, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is launching the fourth International PhD Programme 2020, 5 fellowships will be offered funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the ‘Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores’ 2020-call.
ICREA senior call 2020

Application Deadline: 29/02/2020
Ref: ICREA 2020
The Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) has opened 10 senior research positions for 2020 in the areas of Life & Medical Sciences, Humanities and Social & Behavioural Sciences.
IBEC encourage candidates to apply to this call and will support outstanding candidacies for the area of Life & Medical Sciences.
ICREA researchers are required to make substantial contributions to their own areas of research and to have a strong impact in the Catalan research system by becoming fully involved, active members of the Catalan research community.
Early Stage Researcher at the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems Research Group
Application Deadline: 29/02/2020
Ref: RS-SaM
The Signal and information processing for sensing systems group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Early Stage Researcher willing to get introduced to the computational challenges related to complex omics data. The contract will be in the framework of the industrial project ‘Computational Metabolomics’ funded by Nestle Research.
Sílvia Pujals talks about women in science on TV
Silvia Pujals, senior researcher of the “Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine” group at the IBEC, is interviewed in the Lab24 program, where she talks about the importance and need for more women references in science.
Big data methods for electric functional scanning probe microscopies in Biology
Group: Nanoscale bioelectric characterization Group leader: Gabriel Gomila (ggomila@ibecbarcelona.eu) The passive electrical properties of biological systems, such as the electric charge, conductivity or electrical polarization play a fundamental role in … Read more
Project Manager in Research
Data límit: 05/03/2020
Ref: PMR_JA
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) a cutting-edge research center based in Barcelona, is looking for a Project Manager in Research . We have an exciting full-time, development opportunity for a new Project Manager in Research to join our Projects Office in Barcelona.
His/her role will be to oversee and manage the research projects of the research lines assigned, liaising with other sites and institutions across Spain and Europe.
This position is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness within the “Acciones de dinamización Europa Redes y Gestores” and/or Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Initiative.
IBEC emphasizes the role of women in science
Within the framework of the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has brought their researchers to different Catalan schools to assert the role of women in science and promote STEAM careers to young people as an attractive vocation.
Today February 11, IBEC has joined the initiative “100tíficas” organised by the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRi), in collaboration with the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, to claim the role of women in science.
The minimal chemotactic cell
Directional locomotion or taxis is possibly one of the most important evolutionary milestones, as it has enabled many living organisms to outperform their non-motile competitors Nunes-Alves (2016). In particular, chemotaxis … Read more