Pursuant to its goal of providing high-quality training in astrophysics and related subjects at all academic levels, the IA has set up a program of Scientific Initiation Studentships (BICs).

For 2017 the following projects are available.

1. Spectroscopic characterization of solar-type stars
   Sérgio Sousa (IA-Porto)
2. Impacto cosmológico da observação da expansão do universo em tempo real
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
3. Física fundamental com o ESPRESSO
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
4. Novas ferramentas para evolução de defeitos topológicos
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
5. Prioritisation of candidates of transiting exoplanets in K2 light curves
   Susana Barros (IA-Porto)
6. Studying the impact of cluster environments on the evolution of their galaxies
   Tom Scott, Catarina Lobo (IA-Porto)
7. Studying the dynamics of the Venus atmosphere by using chemical tracers
   Gabriella Gilli (IA-Lisboa)
8. Exploring new wavelength domains: abundances from new spectral regions covered by the ESPRESSO spectrograph
   Nuno Santos, Sérgio Sousa, Vardan Adibekyan (IA-Porto)
9. Understanding the stellar jitter across the HR diagram
   Elisa Delgado Mena (IA-Porto)
10. Determination of sulphur abundances in the HARPS-GTO planet search sample
    Elisa Delgado Mena (IA-Porto)
11. Peering the details of two most massive binary systems in formation using ALMA and VLT
    Nanda Kumar (IA-Porto)
12. Are high-mass young stars bloated?!
    Nanda Kumar (IA-Porto)
13. Simulação numérica de ruído em sensores CCD
    Manuel Abreu (IA-Lisboa)
    O trabalho será realizado no grupo de instrumentação do IA, nas instalações do LOLS/IA no Paço do Lumiar, Lisboa
14. Desenvolvimento de um sistema de aquisição de dados 2D com camara CCD para aplicação em metrologia óptica
    Alexandre Cabral (IA-Lisboa)
    O trabalho será realizado no grupo de instrumentação do IA, nas instalações do LOLS/IA no Paço do Lumiar, Lisboa
15. Black hole mysteries
    Diego Rubiera-Garcia (IA-Lisboa)
16. What do we know about the Big Bang and the Universe?
    Diego Rubiera-Garcia (IA-Lisboa)
17. Good Vibrations: Star Quakes and What They can Reveal about Magnetic Activity Levels
    Tiago Campante (IA-Porto), Ângela Santos (IA-Porto & Space Science Institute, USA)
18. Sizing up Stars: The Importance of Independent Constraints in Stellar Modeling
    Tiago Campante, Mário João Monteiro, Benard Nsamba (IA-Porto)
19. Exploring the impact of modifications of gravity law on cosmological observables
    Noemi Frusciante (IA-Lisboa), Nelson Lima (Heidelberg University)
20. The feedback effect of massive stars on galactic bubbles
    Pedro Palmeirim (IA-Porto)
21. The dust-to-gas ratio problem in nearby Universe
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
22. Detection of strongly lensed galaxies using Herschel
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
23. Spectrophotometric analysis of SDSS galaxies
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
24. A spectral fitting analysis of SDSS galaxies
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
25. Cosmological tests of theories beyond General Relativity
    Nelson Nunes, Noemi Frusciante (IA-Lisboa)
26. A structural investigation of blue compact dwarf galaxies
    Polychronis Papaderos (IA-Porto)
27. On the photometric variability of low-mass young stars in the VVV survey
    Jorge Filipe Gameiro, Guilherme Teixeira (IA-Porto)

1. Estudo das atmosferas planetárias com base em espectros de alta resolução
   Pedro Machado (IA-Lisboa)
2. Estudo de enxames estelares jovens no infravermelho próximo e milímetro
   João Lin Yun (IA-Lisboa)
3. Galaxy satellites in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
   Fernando Buitrago (IA-Lisboa)
4. Development of a new method for the determination of the ages of stars (part 1: diagnostics of the stellar cores)
   Margarida Cunha, Mário João Monteiro (IA-Porto)
5. Development of a new method for the determination of the ages of stars (part II: lifting the masshelium degeneracy)
   Margarida Cunha, Mário João Monteiro (IA-Porto)
6. Unsupervised detection of galaxy clusters in future large photometric surveys
   António da Silva (IA-Lisboa), Alberto Krone-Martins (CENTRA-SIM)
7. All-sky ray tracing tools to study dark-matter annihilations and cross-correlations with CMB and weak-lensing mass maps
   Angeles Moliné, António da Silva (IA-Lisboa)