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The CSIC Calls You Tonight: European Researchers’ Night 2025
The IFT co-organizes the science fair together with the other CSIC research centers on the Cantoblanco campus. There will be various educational workshops, a Nobel and non-Nobel Women Escape Road, and a scientific talent show. The event will take place on September 26...
UAM researcher Ana Cueto obtains an ERC Starting Grant for the Plusphoton project
This line of research will explore new modes of Higgs boson production using data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Ana Cueto, has...
Elisa Ramírez García, physicist, mathematician and young science communicator, begins her stay at the IFT thanks to a CSIC-Fundación BBVA grant
As a beneficiary of the CSIC-BBVA Foundation 2024 grant for science communication, Elisa will spend time at the IFT from September 1 to October 15, joining the communications department. This opportunity will allow her to experience the center's research work...
What are D-branes in STRING THEORY and how do they bring us closer to the Standard Model
New video from #IFTResponde YouTube series. In this video, Ignacio Ruiz, predoctoral investigator from the IFT, clearly explains what D-branes are in the context of String Theory. D-branes let us understand the relation between open and close strings and force...
DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize
The DESI collaboration is being honored with the 2026 Berkeley prize for their work creating the largest 3D map of the universe, enabling the study of the effects of dark energy over cosmic time, and particularly for precise measurements of baryon acoustic...
De Sitter Space: The Universe’s Inevitable Future?
New video in the YouTube series #IFTResponde. Miguel Montero, researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, invites you in this video to explore the fascinating de Sitter space — a theoretical proposal that could today hold the key to understanding dark energy...
Toponium: el CERN consigue la foto imposible de la partícula más efímera
Autor: Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra para The Conversation. En marzo de 2024, el experimento CMS del CERN sorprendió al mundo científico con la observación de una entidad esquiva y exótica: el toponium, una forma efímera y extrema de materia. Poco después, otro...
The physics of Photoprotection
New video in the #IFTResponde YouTube series. In the summer our exposition to the sun increases, and so does the associated UV radiation risks. In this video, Rosa Sandá Seoane, postdoctoral investigator from the IFT, exposes the principles which explain why certain...
Can ANTIMATTER STARS really exist? This signal could change astroparticle physics
As is with every other Thursday, there's a new #IFTResponde video on the IFT's Youtube channel. Are we looking at the dawn of new physics? In this video, Pedro de la Torre, postdoc investigator from the IFT, talks about new findings that could revolutionize particle...
Statement on the Situation in Gaza by the Following Members of the IFT
In the face of the massacre in Gaza of around 80,000 people, largely women, the elderly, and children, we cannot remain silent, even if nothing we do or say seems to matter. We therefore condemn the government of Israel, as well as all those who collaborate with it....
Postdoctoral position in black hole physics and holography
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in theoretical physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) in Madrid. The position is expected to start as soon as possible (and no later than February 1, 2026). The appointment will be for one year, but...
REDONGRA: a network to propel Spain’s role in gravitational wave astronomy
The Spanish Network of Gravitational Wave Physics (REDONGRA) has been granted significant funding under the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities 2024 call of Redes de Investigación. The financial support recognises REDONGRA’s strategic importance...