SPIE@ICFO Chair Research Internships - MINDLAB Hands‑on course MINDLAB stands for “Manipulating and Investigating Neural Dynamics for Learning and Ageing in the Brain” and is an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic rigor, comprising of research groups from ICFO and beyond. We focus on advancing fundamental knowledge on how the mind emerges from the behavior of individual molecules, neurons and brain networks but also creating and commercializing transformational future technologies with outstanding potential to impact our society for good. The core faculty of the ICFO-MINDLAB offers a course to introduce cutting‑edge technologies to study neuroscience at the molecular,



cellular and systems level to students in a combination of lectures and hands‑on experience leading to group projects.

The hands‑on course will expose participants to the state‑of‑the‑art of photonics‑based technologies tailored to monitor a hierarchy of scales in the study of the brain: i.e. from single molecules up to the whole organism. Up to two SPIE@ICFO Chair Research Internships to conduct a project with an ICFO research group are available on a competitive basis to outstanding undergraduate or master’s students interested in the topic addressed by the course “MINDLAB Hands‑on” taking place from 13 to 17 July 2026.

📌 SPIE@ICFO Chair Research Internships - MINDLAB Hands-on course (Castelldefels)
🏢 Institute Of Photonic Sciences
📍 Castelldefels