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March 2025 | |
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 2025 ICO/ICTP Award Winners AnnouncedICTP and the International Commission for Optics (ICO) announced the winners of their 2025 ICO-ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award. Omnia Hamdy Abdelrahman Nematallah of Cairo University, received the award “for her groundbreaking work in biophotonics and the development of innovative optical technologies for biomedical applications having important implications for public health". Gustavo Grinblat, of the University of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Research Council - CONICET, received the award “for his important contributions to nonlinear and ultrafast optics in dielectric nano-resonators with potential applications in telecommunication and information processing". Read more ... | |
 Celebrating Quantum Science: An Interview with ICTP's Rosario FazioThe UN's International Year of Quantum Science and Technology aims to raise public awareness of the importance and impact of quantum science and its applications. The initiative was officially launched in February 2025, at an opening ceremony that took place in Paris, at UNESCO headquarters. Rosario Fazio, head of ICTP’s Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics section and a physicist specializing on quantum many-body systems, was at the ceremony as co-chair of the IYQ’s steering committee and talked about the year and quantum science. Read more ... | |
 From Chemistry to Quantum ComputingMartina Stella, a long-term visiting scientist in ICTP’s Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) section, splits her time as a senior research scientist at the quantum-computing start-up Algorithmiq. She found her way in science by following her passion, creating a career that truly reflects her interests and her values. "If you have a vision of who you want to be, there are many ways to get there, even though many people will tell you that there is only one way forward," she says in a recent ICTP interview. Read more ... | |
 Promoting Biophysics in AfricaEvents organised around the world in 2024 to celebrate ICTP’s 60th anniversary included the African Biophysics Workshop on Experimental and Computational Sciences, hosted by ICTP’s partner institute, the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR), in Kigali, Rwanda. The activity attracted about 25 participants from several different countries in the region, including Ghana, Tanzania, Chad, Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and Sudan. “The workshop aimed to introduce scientists at different stages of their careers – ranging from bachelor’s and master’s students to lecturers – to the most advanced computational and experimental methods in biophysics,” explained Ali Hassanali, a research scientist in ICTP’s Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) section, who was among the organisers of the workshop. Read more ... | |
 Growing a Global Mathematics NetworkAn initiative to offer a two-year mathematics master’s degree in developing countries officially opened its latest program in Algeria at the Algerian National Higher School of Mathematics (NHSM). This followed a successful first implementation in Lahore, Pakistan. ICTP mathematician Stefano Luzzatto and Peter Stevenhagen, a professor of mathematics at Leiden University, were deeply involved in both openings and talk about their experience in an interview. Read more ... | |
 Combining Physics and ComputingThe journey from student to academic researcher can take many forms, with intersections between computing and traditional scientific fields becoming evermore important. Nicola Aladrah, ICTP Postgraduate Diploma graduate and current Master’s in High Performance Computing student, talks about his path to research. Read more ... | |
 Private Donations Helping ICTP's PWF Program Bridges Science GapsTen years ago, ICTP launched Physics Without Frontiers (PWF), a program dedicated to supporting aspiring physicists around the world, particularly in regions where access to scientific communities and training is limited. PWF's mission is to bridge these gaps and provide opportunities for scientific development, and with the help of private donations it is doing exactly that. Read more ... | |
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Call for CIMPA-ICTP Fellowships 2026 "Research in Pairs"The CIMPA-ICTP "Research in Pairs" fellowship program supports mathematicians from developing countries by funding their visits to Europe to collaborate with a colleague. The two researchers will work together on a well-defined research project, primarily at the European colleague’s institution. Deadline: 25 April 2025. Details ... | Earth System Physics Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025ICTP's ESP section seeks applications for two postdoctoral positions, one linked to the WELLCOME TRUST (U.K.) ACCLIMATISE: Attribution of a Changing CLIMate in the AssessmenT of malaria Intervention Strategy Efficiency (2025-2028), and the other focussing on the improvement and development of ICTP’s climate sensitive malaria model (VECTRI). Deadline: 15 May 2025. Details ... |
Two Further ESP Postdoctoral Positions AvailableThe ESP section has an additional two postdoctoral positions available under the framework of the HORIZON LIQUIDICE project linking and quantifying the impacts of climate change on inland ice, snow cover, and permafrost on water resources and society in vulnerable regions. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Details ... | Rita Levi-Montalcini Senior Postdoctoral FellowshipICTP's QLS section seeks applications for one postdoctoral position starting autumn 2025 to carry active multidisciplinary research in the area of theoretical and computational neuroscience. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Details ... |
ICTP-QLS Postdoctoral FellowshipA second postdoc position is available in the QLS section starting in autumn 2025 for candidates with a background in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Details ... | TWAS Research Grants: Powering Research Institutions in SenegalThe TWAS Research Grants programme, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is providing unique opportunities to early career researchers and their work at the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), the Pasteur Institute of Dakar (IPD), and the Thiès Polytechnic School. Details ... |
Call for Nominations, 2025 TWAS-Apex AwardThe award provides international recognition to outstanding scientific achievements made by scientists living and working in developing countries. This year the award is given in the field of quantum science and technology, and carries a prize of US$100,000 and a medal. Deadline: 15 May. Details ... | ICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) ProgrammeICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories Programme places scientists in an Italian laboratory for research in the physical sciences. Application deadline: ongoing.Details ... |
Opportunities on ICTP Global Science PortalNow with more than 1000 users, ICTP's Global Science Portal is a growing community network that also provides publicly shareable Opportunities listings such as calls for proposals, jobs, competitions and studentships for both ICTP and external institutes. Anyone on or off the Portal can email ictpglobal@ictp.it or message ICTP Today on the Portal with any opportunity they would like to share with the community. Follow this link to Join Up and discover the benefits of the ICTP Global Science Portal! | |
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1st Mesoamerican Workshop on Reconfigurable X-ray and Scientific Instrumentation for Cultural HeritageDeadline: 6 April 2025 | Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Single Ion Technologies for Bio-medical and Materials SciencesDeadline: 7 April 2025 |  |  |
Joint ICTP-WE Heraeus School and Workshop on Advances in Quantum Matter: Pushing the BoundariesDeadline: 15 April 2025 | 6th Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Artificial Intelligence and Climate ModellingDeadline: 15 April 2025 |  |  |
6th Youth in High-Dimensions: Recent Progress in Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Statistics and Inference & How creative is Generative AI? Perspectives from Science and PhilosophyDeadline: 30 April 2025 | Hands-on School in Quantitative BiologyDeadline: 30 April 2025 |
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Uniting Minds, Igniting Discovery: ICTP Video Spotlights
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxv42WBtfCCQynvMrPJAT_fT-bglH0vK ICTP Scientific Calendar: https://www.ictp.it/home/scientific-calendar Marie Curie Library: https://library.ictp.it/ ICTP Dirac Conversations video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxv42WBtfCC_3PwuoOuEWxakUF9uhti8 | |
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