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AYO – From A Student Idea To An Innovative Product Sold in 100+ Countries
One of ICONS’ prime goals is to foster career development at ICFO. We already successfully teamed up with the KTT team at ICFO (see the entry on the ICONS-KTT ignite workshop) and now again through KTT we had the pleasure … Continue reading
SPIE 10-year anniversary highlight: KTT-ignite workshop
In July 2018 ICONS collaborated with the Knowledge&Tech Transfer (KTT) Unit of ICFO to bring to life a workshop on tech transfer and business development. The focus was on the process of creating and spinning out high-growth deep tech companies … Continue reading
A day with Alaina Levine on Career Development
On October 5th, 2018 ICONS was hosting Alaina Levine, a SPIE travel lecturer for a full day of events on professional career development for early-stage researcher at ICFO. Alaina Levine describes herself as an award-winning entrepreneur, STEM career consultant, science … Continue reading
IRB BCN – ICFO PhD Joint Cool-Off
Recently the first joint event between PhD students of two BIST institutes took place. For Thursday June 21st, 2018 the student council of IRB Barcelona and the ICFO student chapter ICONS had teamed up to hold a joint cool-off event … Continue reading
ICONS Seminars:
Bitcoin: A Decentralised Digital Currency By JOSEPH BOWLES, March 23rd 2018. Joe joined Toni Acín’s Quantum Information Theory group at ICFO for a Post Doc in 2016 after completing a PhD in Geneva. Although not directly related to his research … Continue reading
