Announcement | PHINDER EIC Project

Predoctoral researcher (PhD student, R1), two-year grant extendable to three years and 6 months to work in the Santander node

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The selected candidate will join the HEP group at University of Cantabria, and the PHINDER project with the goal of collaborating in the development of detailed particle physics simulations concerning the project applications and with emphasis on the proton tomography use case, and the posterior validation and benchmarking of the project applications. The position is initially for 2 years (starting date 1 September 2026, subject to administrative constraints) and can be extended up to three years and 6 months reaching the completion of the PhD. The candidate is expected to be based in Santander with frequent short stays at other PHINDER partners (Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) in case they are needed.

A a direct link to the official call, can be found at https://web.unican.es/unidades/serviciopas/Paginas/Otros-procesos-seleccion-Agencia%20colocaci%C3%B3n%20UC.aspx with reference number 12/2026.

The call closes on August 12 2026, at 23.59.

Predoctoral researcher (PhD student, R1), two-year grant extendable to three years and 6 months to work in the Santander node

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A a direct link to the official call, can be found at https://web.unican.es/unidades/serviciopas/Paginas/Otros-procesos-seleccion-Agencia%20colocaci%C3%B3n%20UC.aspx with reference number 12/2026.

The call closes on August 12 2026, at 23.59.

Predoctoral researcher (PhD student, R1), four-year grant to work in the Oviedo node

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The selected candidate will join the HEP group at University of Oviedo, and the PHINDER project with the goal of designing and optimising surrogate models and spiking neural models to be implemented in neuromorphic hardware manufactured by the consortium and co-designing said hardware. The position is initially for 4 years (starting date 15 June 2026, subject to administrative constraints) until completion of the PhD. The candidate is expected to be based in Oviedo with frequent short stays at other PHINDER partners (Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) in case they are needed. The gross salary is 1960 euro per month on 12 payments/year, which corresponds to a significantly higher salary than the usual public PhD grants in Spain, plus Oviedo is a cheap town to leave in.

The full information, as well as a direct link to the page listing the official call, can be found at https://inspirehep.net/jobs/3163215.

The call closes on June 12 2026, at 23.59.

Predoctoral researcher (PhD student, R1), four-year grant to work in the Oviedo node

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The full information, as well as a direct link to the page listing the official call, can be found at https://inspirehep.net/jobs/3163215.

The call closes on June 12 2026, at 23.59.

Kickoff meeting in Brussels, June 2026

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pathfinder Open EIC projects are designed to have periodic in-person meetings, where the governing body of the consortium meets and where all researchers get together to discuss research so far and the next steps. The PHINDER team will meet in Brussels on June 5, at the HPE partner node, and will visit the TU/e partner node laboratory on June 4!

Sixth MODE Workshop Announced for June 2026

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Sixth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for experiment design will take place at OAC (Kolymbari, Crete) on Sept 1–7, 2026. Mark the date! Registration and abstract submission are open https://indico.cern.ch/event/1655754/. The MODE workshop is about the codesign and optimization of complex instrumental apparata for fundamental physics, and PHINDER stemmed in part from MODE activities, making the workshop the ideal venue for PHINDER scientists to showcase their early work and plans.