THE FELLOWSHIP

A one month stay as an IFAE researcher

The Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) offers 9 undergraduate students the possibility of spending the summer as a physics researcher through the 11th Summer Fellowship Programme. The aim of this one-month stay is to become the first step of University students research career. Participants will have the opportunity to discover the real life of a scientist working side by side with IFAE researchers.

This programme is valuable complement to your physics education. You will have the opportunity to discover the real life of a scientist working side by side with IFAE researchers.

The Fellowship is addressed to University students of any nationality in the final years of their degrees: applications from students of the second, third and fourth year of Physics and related subjects will be accepted. To apply for the Fellowship candidates might follow the Application Process required.

The Summer Fellowship will run between 1st July 2026 and 31st July 2026 Mon-Friday 9am-6pm at the IFAE premises and the students participating will receive a modest stipend.

All participants will be under the supervision of a senior researcher of the group they choose and they will be expected to work full time in the project and accommodate to the group’s schedule.

In September 2026 the students will be invited to present the results obtained during the stay in a seminar at IFAE.


Selected students for the 2026 IFAE Summer Fellowships:

  • Gravitational Waves detection with the LIGO-Virgo Interferometers & the Einstein Telescope: Lucas López and Léa González Buonocore
  • Superconducting quantum computers: Biel Pons Zaragozà
  • New detection schemes for ultralight dark matter: Fatih Žgalj and Martí Abella Cortés
  • Mapping the young Universe: Joan Doria
  • Search for anomalous events in observations performed with the CTAO-LST1 Cherenkov Telescope: Andrea Guerrero
  • Commissioning and testing of LST cameras and LIDAR systems for CTAO: Carlota Figueroa
  • Particle Physics with the ATLAS Experiment @ the LHC: Alvaro Martínez