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Boost your research career at the frontier of particle physics, astrophysics, advanced instrumentation and fundamental science.

IGFAE, Galician Institute of High Energy Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, invites applications for Postdoctoral Researcher positions within the MSCA-COFUND programme TALENTGAL. 

This is a unique opportunity to develop your own research project with full financial support in a highly international, interdisciplinary, and innovation-driven environment, while benefiting from advanced training and strong career development support.

TALENTGAL Call 1

TALENTGAL, promoted by the Xunta de Galicia, aimsto attract excellent postdoctoral researchers to the 10Research Centres of Excellence of theCIGUS Network (Galicia, Spain). The programme fosters international mobility, advanced training, and career development within three thematic areas: Health & Biomedicine, Science & Life Sciences, and Engineering & Technology.

TALENTGAL Call 1 is open from 20 May 2026 until 23 July 2026.

A total of 20 fully funded MSCA postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded across all participating CIGUS Research Centres. While no fixed allocation of positions is assigned per centre, a minimum of one fellowship per hosting institution will be guaranteed, provided that at least one candidate hosted by the centre achieves a final evaluation score of 70% or higher. The remaining fellowships will be allocated strictly according to the overall ranking of all eligible candidates across the three thematic areas, following an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process in line with MSCA principles.

IGFAE as hosting institution 

IGFAE participates in TALENTGAL as one of the CIGUS Research Centres of Excellence, offering a dynamic and collaborative research environment, combining scientific excellence with strong links to industry and public stakeholders.

IGFAE is focused on scientific and technical research in the fields of high‑energy physics, particle and nuclear physics, and related areas such as astrophysics, medical physics, and instrumentation. Since its establishment in 1999 to coordinate Spanish participation in CERN, it has become an internationally renowned research centre. It collaborates with some of the world’s leading experimental facilities, including GSI/FAIR, the Pierre Auger Observatory, and LIGO.

Selected fellows will be integrated into established research groups at IGFAE, supervised by experienced principal investigators with strong international track records an will receive structured support to foster independence, scientific excellence and high-impact outcomes.

Research opportunities at IGFAE

Applicants are invited to submit research proposals aligned with one of the following research topics, where IGFAE offers critical mass, infrastructure, and expert supervision:

• • Experimental high-energy physics at the LHC with the LHCb and CMS experiments 
• • Hot and dense QCD from heavy-ion collisions at the LHC to neutron stars 
• • Astroparticle physics with large-scale observatories 
• • Astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational waves and electromagnetic observations 
• • Experimental low-energy nuclear physics 
• • Quantum simulations: algorithms and experimental implementations in cold atoms and ion traps.
• • Formal theory in particle physics and cosmology  
• • The nature and properties of dark matter and neutrinos

Role and Expectations

Selected candidates will develop ambitious and innovative research projects, contributing to scientific excellence at international level, and will actively participate in knowledge transfer, dissemination, and interdisciplinary collaboration activities within the TALENTGAL programme and MSCA framework.

Fellowships have a duration of up to 30 months and include:

• • Mandatory secondments (1 to 3 months)
• • Intersectoral training opportunities
• • Academic and non‑academic mentoring support
• • Highly competitive working conditions