CALL 23-2025-1 WOMEN IN STEM PROGRAM

2 predoc contracts for scientific women to complete the 4^th year of their PhD started at CTTC

What do we offer? :

• We offer a predoc contract
• Duration: 12 months
• Annual gross salary according with CTTC R1A-IV
• Full-time contract: 7,5 h/day. Flexibility
• Prospect start date: As soon as possible
• Continuous training, access to lab facilities, state of the art infrastructure and polyvalent working spaces, participation in scientific events and R&D projects, complementary skills development.
• We have great benefits for employees:
  • Paid time off: vacation (33 working days per year), holidays, sick and parental leave and more
  • Up to 3 days of Telework per week (2 fixed + 1 upon request). Other requests may be studied to accommodate special needs.
  • Flexible working hours for work-life balance
  • Career path promotion (either professional category and/or annual gross salary)
  • Possibility to complement the salary with personal grants

Requirements of the call

• Required qualification/skills/experience:
  • Their PhD had been conducted at CTTC
  • The scientific women must not have any predoctoral contract with the CTTC at the moment of the deadline of this call
  • Candidates must not have carried out more than 36 months of contract before this call
  • Candidates must be at an advanced stage of their PhD and commit to submitting their thesis before the end of this contract
  • Candidates must be enrolled in a PhD official program in a Spanish university at the moment of this call

Application and documentation

All applications must include:

1. A complete CV, including a list of publications
2. Certificated of PhD of tuition fees
3. A cover letter explaining the state of the thesis and the estimation of duration to finish it.

Deadline: Please submit your application by October 30, 2025

The application documents must be submitted in pdf format through this online application. Only applications via web cttc will be taken into consideration. CVs and any other information gathered during this process will be handled confidentially

Selection process

1. Eligibility screening: all applications received are screened and applications that do not fulfil the criteria published in the call for applications rules are rejected.
2. Shortlisting: the eligible applications will be evaluated by a selection panel and the list of publications will be considered. The applications will be ordered from highest to less score

Who are we?

• The Center Tecnològic de Telecomunicaciones de Catalunya (CTTC) is a non-profit public sector research institution dedicated to fundamental and applied research activities, focused mainly on technologies related to the physical, data link and network layers of communication systems and Geomatics.
• CTTC received the “HR Excellence in Research” award in 2015 from the European Commission and successfully passed into the Award Renewal phase in 2023. This is a recognition of the Institute’s commitment to develop a Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R), designed to bring the practices and procedures in line with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (Charter and Code). Our institution’s comprehensive analysis and HRS4R action plan meet all the requirements of progress and quality of our HR policies. CTTC promotes itself as a provider of a stimulating and favourable work environment for researchers.
• The CTTC is located in the beautiful Mediterranean Technological Park of Castelldefels, a science park that houses the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, research institutions, innovative companies and startups. The PMT-UPC is located 10 minutes’ walk from the beach and the city center of Castelldefels, also close to childcare centers, public schools and the best international schools. It can be reached by car, train (RENFE) and various bus lines.
• We have 2 buildings on campus, with state-of-the-art facilities, comfortable work spaces, meeting rooms, and multipurpose spaces, as well as social spaces.
• The institute has a multicultural environment with more than 130 members (scientific, technical and administrative staff) from all over the world.

CTTC offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

The CTTC seeks to increase the presence of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages them to stand as candidates.

It is also committed to increasing the number of people with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages their applications.