I Global Research Program: Global Internships for Research and Practice-Based Learning

To be eligible for hosting international students as part of the Global Research Program:

1. The interested researcher from UC Chile and partner institutions will offer a virtual internship within the scope of an existing research project. The internship must have a duration of at least 4 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks, allowing the students to have mainly online research experiences in a practice-based learning environment. The last couple of weeks could be planned as an on-site internship if requested/offered.
2. For the purposes of the call, each interested faculty member will present the internship offer and act as the lead researcher. The number of requested interns must also be identified in the online Registration Form for Researchers and Projects.
3. Every project lead researcher must be a full, associate, or assistant professor of UC Chile or the partner university with at least 22 working hours. This call will not admit internship offers for those who do not meet this requirement.
4. Each faculty member can act as the lead researcher of only one project; the intern’s contribution must be clearly identified on the internship offer. Each project may have more than one student working on it.
5. Internships selected for this call are expected to start between April and May 2023.

The program aims to enhance and stimulate global research collaboration, connecting researchers with master’s and senior undergraduate students within new, creative, and innovative international research opportunities.

UC Chile is offering 3 virtual internships for international students

1. Professor Mircea Petrache – Manifold hypothesis testing for common datasets
2. Professor Eduardo Fuentes-López – Predictors of hearing aid use among older adults with hearing loss fitted in the Chilean public health sector (FONDECYT number: 11201327)
3. Professor Luis Sobrevia – Involvement of H2S in gestational diabesity-increased adenosine/L-arginine/NO signaling pathway in human placenta microvascular endothelium

The program aims to enhance and stimulate global research collaboration, connecting researchers with master’s and senior undergraduate students within new, creative, and innovative international research opportunities.

This program is organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at our university.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) students can apply to there virtual internships:

1. Prof. Dr. Rob Dineen – Professor of Neuroradiology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences (University of Nottingham)
   Research internship title: «Detecting and explaining perfusion changes in childhood ataxia telangiectasia using a normative model based on a deep autoencoder»
   (Open to Computer and Information Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science, Medical Engineering)
   More information regarding this internship, here.
2. Prof. Dr. Diego Gómez-Zara – Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame
   Research internship title: «Using network analysis to understand political and news distribution on social media platforms»
   (Open to Computer and Information Sciences, Journalism and Communication)
   More information regarding this internship, here.
3. Prof. Dr. Michalis Vassiliou – Assistant Professor, Institute of Structural Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
   Research internship title: «Finite Element Modeling of elastomeric spheres isolator»
   (Open to Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering)
   More information regarding this internship, here.
4. Prof. Dr. Kerry Tripp – Principal Lecturer, Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
   Research internship title: «Comparative Family Law Research Assistant Virtual Intern»
   (Open to Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine)
   More information regarding this internship, here.

More information here.

Every student must be in the senior year of his/her bachelor’s degree at one of our partner universities. Internships are also open to master students. It is the applicant’s sole responsibility to submit the necessary information and documentation. Interested students must upload the following documents.

1. Statement of Purpose (One page)
2. Updated CV or Resume (One page)
3. Transcripts or records of the last academic period.
4. English proficiency tests if required.

The students interested in being part of this program must send all the documents via email to Cristian Diaz, Director for Global Mobility at UC Chile (cristian.diaz@uc.cl)

1. Internship and project offers must be submitted using the registration form.
2. The interested researcher from participating institutions may offer 1-3 virtual. The length of the internship, requirements, and skills of students are stated by the lead researcher.
3. A shortlist of students is generated for each project based on the selection process.
4. Faculty are invited to review shortlisted student applications and to contact students to conduct interviews.

The Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at UC Chile supports the incoming and outgoing students, while the Office of the Vice President for Research supports UC | Chile researchers by offering their internships places and selecting the most suitable candidates for each position.

At the end of the internship, UC | Chile will issue a certificate of completion of the Global Research Program.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) is committed to protecting personal data while respecting the dignity of the human person in a digital environment. UC | Chile supports data rights protection for everyone involved in our activities, including faculty members, researchers, staff, students, alumni, among others.

This policy establishes the responsibilities for the University community and the principles that govern data treatment and protection to fully meet the requirements of the Chilean Constitution, laws, regulations, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The UC Chile recognizes that proper and compliant processing under data protection legislation increases trust between the University and its community as a whole.

All personal data collected will only be processed by authorized UC Chile staff for the purpose of assigning available research placements and contacting both students and faculty within the scope of program activities. The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Vice President of International Affairs is responsible for the treatment of personal data and will be stored in a reliable and secure system for a period of 10 years. After this period, the data will be erased.