Fellowship Programme

  • Studying the stars from the Canary Islands to understand the world
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    Studying the stars from the Canary Islands to understand the world

    Ana Escorza and Michael Abdul-Masih analyse stars at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. They met in Belgium, got married in Chile and now, thanks to the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships, are working in Spain to ...

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  • Three researchers and three ways to mitigate the drought
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    Three researchers and three ways to mitigate the drought

    On our blue planet, less than 1% of the Earth’s water is available for human use, a situation that is set to worsen with climate change, according to the UN. Clearly, the management, distribution and storage of this strategic resource are at the ...

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  • Support for exceptional talent: the Fellowships programme of the ”la Caixa” Foundation reaches 6,000 fellows
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    Support for exceptional talent: the Fellowships programme of the ”la Caixa” Foundation reaches 6,000 fellows

    The Fellowships programme of the "la Caixa" Foundation has boosted the academic careers of more than 6,000 excellent students and researchers throughout its more than 40-year history. With this major milestone, the programme reaffirms its support ...

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  • Kaori Mutsuda: «In the long term, a human body could be recreated on a chip»
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    Kaori Mutsuda: «In the long term, a human body could be recreated on a chip»

    Kaori Mutsuda Zapater (Barcelona, 1996) is a biotechnologist. Thanks to a postgraduate fellowship abroad from the "la Caixa" Foundation, she is studying for her PhD in Kyoto, in a new faculty dedicated to finding solutions to ensure human survival. ...

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  • One hundred researchers receive doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships
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    One hundred researchers receive doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships

    105 researchers will develop their projects in Spain and Portugal thanks to the 65 fellowships awarded in the framework of the doctoral INPhINIT programme and the 40 of the postdoctoral Junior Leader programme.

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  • Beyond the fear of the algorithm: a socially responsible AI
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    Beyond the fear of the algorithm: a socially responsible AI

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born in the 1950s with the aim of building intelligent computer systems. After decades of development, it has undergone exponential growth in recent years, with major implications in the technological, social and ...

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