Calendar

January, 2026

February, 2026

March, 2026

Theses Defenses

February 20, 2026

PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Engineering Catalyst-Ionomer Interfaces for Carbon-Efficient CO2 Electrolysis and Technology Prospects

Hour: 10:30h

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Theses Defenses

February 26, 2026

TOMAS LAMICH

PhD THESIS DEFENSE: A single emitter emitting resonance fluorescence into a coherent beam

Hour: 10:00h

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Theses Defenses

February 27, 2026

JOSEPH ALAN WINDLEY WRAGG

THESIS DEFENSE: Action Microspectroscopy for Nanophotonics

Hour: 10:00h

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Theses Defenses

February 5, 2026

IGOR TYULNEV

PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Investigation and Control of Phase Transitions by Ultrafast Strong-field Techniques

Hour: 10:00h

Place: Auditorium

Seminars

February 20, 2026

WARWICK BOWEN

SEMINAR: Quantum technology for biosensing and imaging

Hour: From 10:30h to 11:30h

Place: Elements Room

Seminars

February 25, 2026

FEDERICO CENTRONE

JOURNAL CLUB: Classical theories of gravity produce entanglement

Hour: From 10:30h to 11:30h

Place: Seminar Room

Seminars

February 25, 2026

FEDERICO STRAMAGLIA

NANOFABRICATION SEMINAR | Beyond Topography: Advanced Surface Characterization by Atomic Force Microscopy at ICFO

Hour: From 14:00h to 15:00h

Place: Seminar Room

Seminars

February 26, 2026

PAVEL MALÝ

SEMINAR: Dynamics of multiple particles in time-resolved spectroscopy with multiple observables

Hour: From 10:00h to 11:00h

Place: Elements Room

Seminars

February 26, 2026

MILAN DELOR

SEMINAR: Transforming materials with a little light

Hour: From 15:00h to 16:00h

Place: Elements Room

Seminars

February 26, 2026

NACHO PASCUAL

SEMINAR: Engineering spin and charge configurations in graphene architectures

Hour: From 10:30h to 11:30h

Place: Seminar Room

Seminars

February 26, 2026

DYLAN LEWIS

SEMINAR: Introducing Geodesic Pulse Engineering (GEOPE)

Hour: From 15:00h to 16:00h

Place: Seminar Room

Seminars

February 17, 2026

WARWICK BOWEN

SEMINAR: Exploring superfluid helium with optomechanics

Hour: From 15:00h to 16:00h

Place: Elements Room

Seminars

February 11, 2026

HANS JAKOB WÖRNER

SEMINAR: Advancing attosecond science to liquids and chiral molecules

Hour: From 16:00h to 17:00h

Place: Seminar Room

Seminars

February 9, 2026

AMANI AL-MQADMA

SEMINAR | Needs Assessment of Higher Education in Gaza: Challenges and Proposed Interventions

Hour: From 14:00h to 15:00h

Place: Elements Room and Online (Teams)

Seminars

February 9, 2026

SELIM HANAY

SEMINAR: Nanomechanical and Microwave Sensors for Sensing, Dynamics and Computation

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Seminar Room

Colloquium

February 25, 2026

EBONEY HEARN

COLLOQUIUM: Data, Narrative, and Allies: A Path to Institutional Change for Women in Science

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Colloquium

February 5, 2026

MARK BRONGERSMA

ICFO Colloquium Series: Meta-imaging of Textures and Tissues

Hour: From 15:00h to 16:00h

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Events & Conferences

February 26, 2026

Women in Science Book Club | Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong- and the New Research That’s Re-writing the Story, by Angela Saini

Hour: From 16:00h to 17:00h

Place: Café de la Llum

Events & Conferences

From February 16, 2026 to February 20, 2026

EMBO Workshop: Intracellular Mechanics and Organelle Mechanobiology

All day

Place: ICFO Auditorium

Events & Conferences

From February 11, 2026 to March 12, 2026

ICFOnians for Women in Science Month

All day

Place: All ICFO

Insight Seminar

February 26, 2026

IVAN MORERA NAVARRO

INSIGHT SEMINAR | Unconventional Magnetism and Pairing in Two-Dimensional Materials: From Moiré Materials to Synthetic Quantum Matter

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Elements Room

Insight Seminar

February 13, 2026

REBECA RIBEIRO

INSIGHT SEMINAR: Twist-Angle-Controlled Anomalous Gating in Bilayer Graphene/BN Heterostructures

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Elements Room