Predoctoral contracts

2024

A call for 4-year predoctoral contract for exceptional candidates interested in pursuing a doctoral thesis at the CFP Unit has been published, the deadline for applications is 7th of January:

- Scientific exploitation, data analysis and operation of the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC  (position 405-PIDI00- PDI24). Contact: Begoña de la Cruz Martínez (Begona.delacruz@ciemat.es) & Isabel Josa (Isabel.Josa@ciemat.es). More information here

2024

Three calls for 4-year predoctoral contracts for exceptional candidates interested in pursuing a doctoral thesis at the CFP Unit are published, the deadline for applications is 12th of December:

- Searches for exotic decays of the Higgs boson with the CMS experiment at the LHC (position 408-PREAT1-PDI24). Contact: Cristina Martín (Cristina.Martin@ciemat.es) & Isabel Josa (Isabel.Josa@ciemat.es). More information here

- Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Euclid and DESI (position 409-PREAT1-PDI24). Contact: Anna Porredon (Annamaria.Porredon@ciemat.es) & Eusebio Sánchez (Eusebio.Sanchez@ciemat.es). More information here

- Acceleration of Cosmic Rays in Supernova Remnants (position 410-PREAT1-PDI24). Contact: Iurii Sushch (iurii.sushch@ciemat.es) & Carlos Delgado (carlos.delgado@ciemat.es). More information here

A call for 4-year predoctoral contracts for exceptional candidates interested in pursuing a doctoral thesis at the CFP Unit is published, the deadline for applications is 12th of November (CIEMAT's web):

- Cosmic Rays Physics with the AMS experiment on the International Space Station (215-PRECIE-PDI24). Contact: Jorge Casaus (jorge.casaus@ciemat.es) & Miguel Ángel Velasco (miguelangel.velasco@ciemat.es). More information here

- Cosmology with Large Galaxy Surveys (214-PRECIE-PDI24). Contact: Eusebio Sánchez (eusebio.sanchez@ciemat.es) & Ignacio Sevilla (ignacio.sevilla@ciemat.es). More information here

- Dark Matter direct searches with the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (216-PRECIE-PDI24).  Contact: Roberto Santorelli (roberto.santorelli@ciemat.es) & Vicente Pesudo (vicente.pesudo@ciemat.es). More information here

- Construction  and analysis of nuclear physics experiments realted to the search for dark matter and nuclear technology (219-PRECIE-PDI24).  Contact: Daniel Cano (daneil.cano@ciemat.es) & Roberto Santorelli (roberto.santorelli@ciemat.es). More information here

2023

Opening of 7 pre-doctoral positions (4-year PhD contract) for outstanding young M.Sc. graduates interested in working at the CFP Unit towards a PhD Thesis.

The deadline for applications is 15 November 2023. 

• Gravitational Waves (position 209-PRECIE-PDI23). Contact: Pablo García Abia (pablo.garcia@ciemat.es) / Carlos Delgado (carlos.delgado@ciemat.es). More information here
• Neutrino Physics (position 210-PRECIE-PDI23). Contact: Ines Gil Botella (ines.gil@ciemat.es). More information here

The deadline for applications is 23 October 2023. 

• Science with MAGIC and the first telescope of CTAO (position 224-PIDC21-PDI23). Contact: Carlos Delgado (carlos.delgado@ciemat.es). More information here

• Cosmic Ray Physics with the experiment AMS on the International Space Station (position 223-PIDC21-PDI23). Contact: Jorge Casaus (jorge.casaus@ciemat.es)/Miguel Ángel Velasco (miguelangel.velasco@ciemat.es). More information here

The deadline for applications is 29 September 2023. 

• Searches for long lived particles with the CMS experiment at the LHC (position code 221-PREAT1-PDI23). Contact: Alberto Escalante (Alberto.Escalante@ciemat.es) & Isabel Josa (isabel.josa@ciemat.es). More information here
• Precision studies of the top quark with the CMS experiment at the LHC (position code 222-PREAT1-PDI23). Contact: Javier Llorente Merino (Javier.LlorenteMerino@ciemat.es) & Isabel Josa (isabel.josa@ciemat.es). More information here
• PhD position in Neutrino Experimental Physics (position code 220-PREAMO-PDI23). Contact: Carmen Palomares (mc.palomares@ciemat.es). Más información aquí.

2022

Opening of 1 pre-doctoral position (4-year PhD contract) for outstanding young M.Sc. graduates interested in working at the CFP Unit towards a PhD Thesis. The deadline for applications is August 2nd. More information in this link.

• CMS experiment at LHC. Contact: Isabel Josa (Isabel.Josa@ciemat.es) / Begoña de la Cruz (Begona.Delacruz@ciemat.es)
• Direct Dark Matter searches. Contact: Roberto Santorelli (Roberto.Santorelli@ciemat.es)
• Observational Cosmology. Contact: Eusebio Sánchez, Ignacio Sevilla (eusebio.sanchez@ciemat.es / ignacio.sevilla@ciemat.es)

2020

Opening of 4 pre-doctoral positions (4-year PhD contracts) for outstanding young MSc graduates interested in working in CIEMAT-FP group activities towards a PhD Thesis. Applications deadline is October 27th.

Opening of 2 pre-doctoral positions (4-year PhD contracts) for outstanding young M.Sc. graduates interested in working in CIEMAT-FP group activities towards a PhD Thesis. Applications deadline is July 14.

• Direct Dark Matter Search with Liquid Argon Detectors. Contact: Roberto Santorelli (darkmatter@ciemat.es)
• Cosmic Ray Physics with the AMS experiment on the International Space Station. Contact: Javier Berdugo (javier.berdugo@ciemat.es) / Jorge Casaus (jorge.casaus@ciemat.es)

Announcement of 8 eligible projects for predoctoral contracts (3 year PhD contracts) of the "La Caixa" INPhINIT programme (Incoming).

See full announcement here . Application deadline February 4, 2020.

• Cosmology and fundamental physics with galaxy surveys
• Deep learning for time series forecasting
• Direct searches of Dark Matter particles with liquid argon experiments
• Liquid argon TPC technology for the measurement of neutrino oscillations with DUNE
• Exascale computing for the Large Hadron Collider Physics program
• Precision measurement of the cosmic ray electron and positron spectra with AMS and CTA  
• Search for new physics effects with the CMS detector at the LHC 
• Sub-milliarcsecond angular resolution with intensity interferometry in Cherenkov Telescopes

Opening of 3 pre-doctoral positions (4-year PhD contracts) for outstanding young MSc graduates interested in working in CIEMAT-FP group activities towards a PhD Thesis. Applications deadline is November 7th.

• Scientific computing: artificial intelligence technologies in experimental particle physics. Contact: José María Hernández Calama (jose.hernandez@ciemat.es) / Miguel Cárdenas Montes (miguel.cardenas@ciemat.es)

• Observational cosmology. Contact: Eusebio Sánchez-Álvaro (Eusebio.Sanchez@ciemat.es) / Ignacio Sevilla (Ignacio.Sevilla@ciemat.es)

• Neutrino physics. Contact: Inés Gil (ines.gil@ciemat.es)

2019

Announcement of 8 eligible projects for predoctoral contracts (3 year PhD contracts) of the "La Caixa" INPhINIT programme.

See full announcement here . Application deadline February 6, 2019.

• Cosmology and fundamental physics with galaxy surveys
• Deep learning for time series forecasting
• Direct searches of Dark Matter particles with liquid argon experiments
• Dual-phase liquid argon TPC technology for the measurement of neutrino oscillations with DUNE
• Exascale computing for the Large Hadron Collider Physics programme
• Precision measurement of the cosmic ray electron and positron spectra with AMS and CTA  
• Search for new physics effects with the CMS detector at the LHC 
• Sub-milliarcsecond angular resolution with intensity interferometry in Cherenkov Telescopes

2018

Opening of 5 predoctoral positions (4-year PhD contracts) for outstanding young MSc graduates interested in working in CIEMAT-FP group activities towards a PhD Thesis. See complete announcement here. 

3 positions funded by the FPI programme of the Spanish Ministry. See call here (applications 9-29 October 2018).

• Physics beyond the Standard Model with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC.

• Commissioning and exploitation of first telescopes of CTA project.

• Study of the properties of dark energy and measurement of cosmological parameters.

2 positions funded by CIEMAT. Not yet announced. See call here (application deadline is 12 November 2018).

• Search for new physics in precision studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC.

• Dark matter search with liquid argon detectors.

Announcement of 3 predoctoral contracts (3 year PhD contracts) of the "La Caixa" INPhINIT programme. See the complete announcement here. Application deadline February 1, 2018.

• Search for new physics effects with the CMS detector at the LHC
• Validation of the dual-phase liquid argon TPC technology for the measurement of neutrino oscillations with DUNE
• The role of the high energy processes in the star formation

2017

Opening of 7 predoctoral positions (4-year PhD contracts) for outstanding young MSc graduates interested in working in CIEMAT-FP group activities towards a PhD Thesis. See complete announcement here. 

• 5 positions funded by the FPI programme of the Spanish Ministry. See call here (applications 3-18 October 2017).
  • Physics beyond the Standard Model with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
  • The role of the high energy in the evolution of galaxies within the Starburst project
  • Cosmic ray Physics with the AMS experiment on the International Space Station
  • Particle Physic Detectors R&D for experiments in future colliders (HL-LHC, ILC)
  • Computing R&D for the CMS experiment at the HL-LHC
• 2 positions funded by CIEMAT. Not yet announced. The call will be published at the CIEMAT job vacancies webpage and announce in this page.
  • Precision Physics with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
  • Dark matter search using liquid argon detectors