Intern Reflections

Vibin Kundukulam at IMDEA Materiales

“It was amazing to see how Spain, as well as other countries in the EU, is beginning to build up a massive center of science and innovation at the interface between the government and industry. At IMDEA, I had the opportunity to work with researchers from around the world, and I learned to put everything I had studied in the classroom in a truly global framework.”

Alicia Goldstein, Siamrut Patanavanich & Yulia Tolstova at ICFO.

“This summer in Barcelona was the best summer of my life. Not only did I work at a world class research institution, but I also met students from all over Europe who taught me a different way to look at life. Spanish culture is so different from American culture and I was surprised at how much I learned about myself in that environment. The people I met in Barcelona opened my eyes to new possibilities in work and research, and I know that I will definitely go abroad again to work.”

MIT-Spain Upcoming Events

MIT-Spain is pleased to support the following upcoming events: 

Challenges and Opportunties of Health Care Policy in Europe 
Speaker:  Magda Rosenmoller; Senior Lecturer of Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE Barcelona

Supply Chain Management in Spain:  Bridges between Research and Business
Speaker:  Maria Jesus Saenz; Professor at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program (Zaragoza Logistics Center), Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and Tenured Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Zaragoza

MIT European Career Fair
The European Career Fair @ MIT (ECF) is an annual recruiting event that connects employers from Europe with the most talented candidates that live in the US.

MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Funds
Thank you to all those that submitted a proposal for the seed funding.  The results will be announced in December.

MIT-Spain Internship Program Now Recruiting

MIT-Spain matches nearly 50 students annually with professional internships and research with leading companies, universities and research institutes in Spain. The program is open to all MIT undergrads, graduate students and recent MIT alumni. A few of the recent internship projects include:

• developing organic photovoltaic cells at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
• building a social search engine at Telefonica I+D
• analyzing disease related proteins at the Center for Genomic Regulation
• researching geothermal policy at Asociación de Productores de Energía Renovables
• designing and constructing a solar house at the Fab Lab Barcelona
• and much more!

“Our group benefitted greatly from interacting with someone coming from a different background and top level academic institution.  We interchanged information and perspectives about how technology is used in different countries.”
-Telefonica I+D

Contact us to learn how you can host a student from the MIT-Spain Program.