Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)

Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) is specialised in the science and technology of harnessing light as a pervasive and universal tool that benefits health, energy, information as well as safety, security and environment

Research proposals shall cover the following lines:

• Light for Health: medical optical devices, photonics for clean food and clean water, in particular, portable photonic technologies for quantitative fast diagnosis of COVID and non-invasive management of COVID patients.
• Light for Energy: optical sensors, photovoltaic energies, new materials, graphene
• Light for Information: optical telecommunications, quantum information, optical sensors Laser Technologies: new lasers
• Light-based technologies for industrial processes