"Gracias por enseñarnos a soñar estrellas"

- Prof. Francisco Sánchez 1936-2025 -

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Francisco Sánchez, director fundador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

News

  • EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
    EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
  • Artistic impression of collisions between dark matter particles. One collision per particle every 10 billion years explains the distribution of dark matter in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies.
    A single collision in 10 billion years could explain how dark matter is distributed within dwarf galaxies
  • GRANCAIN instrument installed on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan)
    GRANCAIN, the first instrument to use the GTC's adaptive optics, is integrated into the telescope
  • SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings
    The IAC hosts scientific meetings on Solar Orbiter's SO/PHI instrument
  • Canary Islands Diamond Award
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias receives the Canary Islands Diamond Award for Business and Economic Innovation
  • Big Science Industry Forum Spain 2025 BSIFS2025
    The IAC takes part in the Big Science Industry Forum Spain 2025
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Employment

  • Indefinite contract
    Two Postdoctoral Contracts SPEAR 2025 (PS-2025-077)
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for TWO postdoctoral fellowships in Astrophysics to work on the project linked to the line of research “Exoplanets and Astrobiology” in the framework of the
  • Indefinite contract
    One Postdoctoral Contract Mid-IR Evolved Stars 2025 (PS-2025-075)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Nucleosynthesis and molecular processes in the late stages of stellar evolution”. The
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