Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías

International PhD programme

The IGFAE offers a pleasant and stimulating atmosphere for young people who wish to start their research career at the Institute. The PhD Programme in Nuclear and Particle Physics, with a clear global vocation, is part of the doctoral studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Every year, the IGFAE welcomes students from the PhD Programme in Nuclear and Particle Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Since its inception, the programme has a clear global vocation, promoting student stays in international reference projects in which the IGFAE participates, such as CERN, the LIGO collaboration, the Pierre Auger Observatory, FAIR, GANIL, NEXT or DUNE.

Through its Technology Transfer Unit, the IGFAE also promotes applications for industrial doctorates, in collaboration with external companies.

IGFAE PhD students have a personalised training and mentoring programme, which includes the assignment of a supervisor.

Currently, over 50 PhD students are working at the IGFAE. In its new facilities, the centre offers a pleasant and stimulating atmosphere for those who wish to start their research career in Santiago de Compostela.

The Institute's team provides new students with the necessary help with bureaucratic procedures and facilitates their arrival through a welcome programme. In this way, various resources are provided to ensure optimal professional and personal development during this stage.

The IGFAE fosters community interaction with the PhD community by organizing educational and outreach activities that reinforce the sense of belonging to the institution. Among other activities, IGFAE doctoral students collaborate in the organization of international Particle Physics Masterclasses, guided tours of the institution, the program of outreach talks in educational centers, and the Ciencia Singular open day.

The doctoral students also have a committee of representatives, in constant contact with the IGFAE management, to address issues of interest to the community.

Programa

High Energy Physics

SA1: The Standard Model to the Limits

Radiation hard silicon pixel detectors with timing capabilities
Development of readout systems for silicon pixel detectors
Measurements of CP-violating observables in LHCb
Exploring dark sectors with the LHCb experiment at CERN
Lepton Flavour Universality tests in the LHCb experiment
Search for New Physics at LHCb
Study of heavy-ion collisions in LHCb

Theoretical physics

SA1: The Standard Model to the Limits

Establishing the non-linear regime of QCD at the LHC and future colliders
Yoctosecond imaging of QCD collectivity
The structure of neutron stars in effective field theories and gravitational wave observables
Studies in gauge/gravity duality, integrability and String Theory
Quantum Information
Phenomenology of Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Cosmic Particles and Fundamental Physics

SA2: Cosmic Particles and Fundamental Physics

Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray and neutrino detection in Astroparticle physics
Search for the nature of neutrinos with the NEXT-100 detector at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory
Gravitational waves & multi-messenger astronomy
R&D in optical TPCs for neutrinos and dark matter experiments

Nuclear physics and applications

SA3: Nuclear physics from the lab to improve people’s health

Laser induced particle acceleration and medical applications at L2A2
Reactions for nuclear structure, dynamics and astrophysical studies with rare relativistic ion beams at R3B
Structure and dynamics of exotic nuclei at low energy RIB facilities
Development of nuclear instrumentation from experiments to applications

Información

Admission to the PhD program follows the regulations of the University of Santiago de Compostela. We invite all interested candidates to contact us for information at phd_program@igfae.usc.es.

We offer industrial doctorates in collaboration with external companies. Candidates interested in this option should clearly state this in their Motivation Letter.