The Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC) is today one of Europe’s centre of excellence in photonics, with a mission to build the future through talent and technology. If you share this vision, and strive to become one of Europe’s future research leaders, who will drive the development of ground breaking technologies to address today’s societal and environmental challenges, then Sparkle could be the programme to bring your ambitions to life.
At the core of each fellowship is a research project built on your ideas and aligned to one of IPIC’s four inter-disciplinary Research Themes, where we are currently investing more than €20M. This programme is designed to address global challenges, such as to build the future backbone of the internet, to develop the world’s smallest integrated imaging system for guided surgery, to develop novel integration and assembly technologies that deliver integration densities never previously achieved, and to enable the development of new products, including LIDAR for autonomous vehicles and micro LED displays for AR/VR.