Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías

Listen "Geopolitics of particle physics"!

Recruitment process for our Management Unit

De esquerda a dereita, Lois Orosa Nogueira (director do CESGA), Carmen Cotelo Queijo (directora de GAIN), Román Rodríguez (conselleiro), Antonio López Díaz (reitor da USC) e Carlos A. Salgado (director do IGFAE). Foto: Santi Alvite / USC.

The Rector of the USC and the Galician Minister of Science signed the agreement to establish the new laboratory, which will be housed at the IGFAE's headquarters.

Quantum Computing Lab, a new step forward for Galicia in quantum science and technology

International Day of Women & Girls in Science

Masterclass on Particle Physics

Iberian Strings 2026

IGFAE hosts an international meeting on the development of solenoid spectrometers.

The artist will develop the project “Other and Oneself” from early 2026, through which he will explore the concept of superposition from the perspective of visual arts and quantum physics

Andrés Rivas Rodís wins the first edition of the ArtLab IGFAE | Cidade da Cultura

IGFAE Science Week celebrates 100 years of Quantum Mechanics

Parabéns, Jaime!

LII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics

IGFAE team leads the first complete measurement of a black hole's recoil

Caverna subterránea do experimento LHCb, nas instalacións da Organización Europea para a Investigación Nuclear (CERN), na fronteira entre Suíza e Francia. Crédito: Maximilien Brice / CERN.

The LHCb experiment at CERN finds a new way to study the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the Universe

The new IGFAE headquarters, a space to promote Galicia as a reference in 21st-century physics

Meet our team!

Staff

IGFAE is a research centre from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) and Xunta de Galicia (regional government) which performs cutting-edge science in particle, astroparticle and nuclear physics

Research Areas

Cutting-edge science in the fields of particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics

IGFAE Colloquia

Monthly talks with internationally-renowned experts

Staff

Meet our Team!

Technology transfer

Generating knowledge and innovation to share with society