Driving innovation at ICFO is just one of the many roles our KTT team heads. Tech transfer is not just about technology; is about knowledge, information, and perhaps most importantly TALENT.
This Friday 16th of February we had the pleasure of hearing firsthand about tech-transfer activities from Dr. Silvia Carrasco, director of the KTT unit at ICFO, in a seminar where she talked about ICFO spin-offs, the MWC, entrepreneurship, investors and many other topics.
Thanks a lot to all the attendees!
Be tuned for further ICONS activities!

– ICONS

PS: an interesting article (in Spanish) about Silvia’s career and job can be found here:
http://www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/quien/20150329/54428518389/silvia-carrasco-icfo-ktt.html

Spoons up!

A beautiful sunny day welcomed the 2017 edition of the International Food Festival  (IFF) annually organised by ICONS at ICFO at the Restaurant Barbacoa Europa, Gavà on Friday 17th. ICFO-chefs gathered together to cook traditional delicacies from all over the world in 8 courageous teams being the Turkish, Antarctica, Indian, Irish, SuperChefs de México, Catalunya, Cake and The Street Foodies team.

Lured by the delicious smell and the certainty of trying good food, more than 150 ICFOnians dared to come to the venue, equipped with a plate, cutlery and a cup of juice, beer or wine, and got ready to taste and enjoy the pretty arranged dishes from all the cooks! These brave Chef-teams had been preparing all the dainties already on-site (on fire) for two hours before the starting shot to taste. The teams offered a wide variety of specialities that included, for example, original Turkish kebab, Catalan butifarra, Irish lamb stew, Indian aloo paratha, sweet potato sticks (Street foodies), Cherrycrumble Cake, liquid-nitrogen berry ice-cream, Mexican tacos and many many yummy dishes more. After having at least the dishes from 5 out of 8 stands, the happy foodies had to choose their favourite team and cast the vote!

The competition was tight! The over 150 enthusiastic participants placed their ballots for their favourite team’s cuisine and waited for the final results. The waiting time was slightly shortened by attempting to drink a sip of wine out of glass jugs the artistic Catalan way. After some thrilling moments in the final counts, the SuperChefs de México could claim victory and the cava, followed by a tie in the second position between the Irish and the Cake team.

Congrats to the winners again and thanks to you all who made the IFF17 not only possible but also great fun!!
See you at the next edition! 🙂

– ICONS

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On 8th of June ICONS  organizes its 1st Colloquium at ICFO within the framework of the SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program.  This funding encourages interactions between student chapters and world-class scientists and engineers at the leading edge of technological advances in optics and photonics.

In this special occasion, ICONS have the pleasure to invite John Rogers, from Illinois University, to give a talk titled Bio-Integrated and Bio-Inspired Photonics.

All the attenders will enjoy this talk at 12:00 h in the Auditorium followed with a Informal Coffee Session at 165:00 in the Blue Lecture Room at the same day. 

At the coffee session all the students will be able to ask some questions to the invited Speaker in a relax fashion while having a coffee.

ICONS’ hopes a great success for the events.

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Summary: This talk presents some recent results on the development of photonic systems that integrate with biological systems for optical interrogation, stimulation or inhibition and exploit principles inspired by biology to yield advanced imaging capabilities. The former focuses on wireless, ‘skin-like’ devices capable of optical measurements of physiological health and on cellular-scale light emitting devices for optogenetic studies of brain function. The latter focuses on digital cameras with layouts found in mammals and insects to enable fields of view, uniformity in illumination,

acuity to motion and levels of aberration that are difficult or impossible to realize using conventional approaches. We explain the underlying materials science, optical physics, manufacturing methods and mechanical designs that enable these technologies, and we illustrate the performance characteristics through combined experimental and modeling studies.
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