PhD Student in Electrocatalysis for CO₂ Conversion and AI-Driven Self-Driving Laboratory Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia in Spain

Two funded research openings are available in the Lloret-Fillol Group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain, in the area of AI-driven catalyst discovery and self-driving laboratories. The first opening is a 4-year PhD position focused on electrocatalyst discovery for CO₂-to-fuels. The project uses high-throughput electrochemistry, real-time analytics, and closed-loop optimization, making it a strong fit for students interested in chemistry, electrochemistry,...

The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to join Prof. Julio Lloret’s group in Tarragona, Spain. The position is funded through the project AIA2025-163492-C53 – Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Intensified Synthesis and Experimentation (RAISE) and focuses on Self-Driving Laboratories for Sustainable Catalysis . The project combines sustainable catalysis , electrochemistry , laboratory automation , and artificial intelligence . The suc...

Julio Lloret Fillol at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) announces two upcoming funded openings: a 4-year PhD position and a 3-year postdoctoral position. The project focuses on AI-driven robotics for catalyst discovery, with research directions including AMPER, CO₂-to-fuels, green H₂, high-throughput electrochemistry, and closed-loop optimization. This is a strong fit for candidates interested in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, robotics, and computationa...

PhD opportunity in battery modelling, electrochemical interfaces, atomistic modelling, first-principles simulations, and machine-learned interatomic potentials at CIC energiGUNE in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain . The Modelling and Simulation group is recruiting a PhD candidate for e-ChemIn , a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on understanding and engineering electrochemical interfaces for next-generation energy technologies. The selected doctoral candidate will study how buried e...

The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) is offering a fully funded PhD position in Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol’s research group in Tarragona, Spain. The project, titled AI-driven Catalyst Development , focuses on accelerating the discovery of electrocatalysts for converting CO₂ into fuels and chemical feedstocks by combining catalyst design, automated high-throughput experimentation, real-time analysis, and artificial intelligence. The successful candidate will work with AMPER, an a...