ight, more exactly laser light, has become a fundamental tool in scientific, technological and economic advances in many areas that go from telecommunications and Internet to the science of life and health care, environmental technologies, and entertainment. At ICFO we push the frontiers of the cores of these areas, such as quantum optics, nanophotonics, or biophotonics.

The ICFO core spirit is ingenuity, fascination for the unknowns, and hard work. An attitude shared by many researchers around the world with whom ICFO members continuously interact and correspond.

One of ICFO's main missions is to train PhD students, through courses, seminars, accessibility to cutting-edge experimental infrastructures, and the mastering of researchers that are among the best in the world in their field. This is a training addressed to equip talented students with unique capabilities that help them become future leaders, either in the academic or in the industrial world.

Our most valued treasures are such PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. They are bright, ambitious young women and men, with a talent for discovery and strong moral values, whom aim at achieving difficult but important goals. Listen to your heart: If you share such values and aims and you like working with light, surf our web to find out the challenge that most interests you, and get on board. A new project is about to leave port to take you on an exciting intellectual trip.