Conference
IFAE at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (EAS 2022)
July 13, 2022
Observational Cosmology GroupIFAE researchers contributed to the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (EAS 2022)
27 June – 1 July 2022, Valencia Conference Centre
GW group members presented talks
- Giada Caneva , Active monitoring of stray light at Advanced Virgo: new instrumented baffles
- Marc Andres, Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events Using Neural Networks in Ligo/Virgo Third Observation Period
Cosmology group member presneted a poster:
- Umut Demirbozan , “The CMB Lensing Imprint of Cosmic Voids”.
New ICREA position
Andreu Font-Ribera appointed ICREA Professor at IFAE
January 14, 2026
Andreu Font-Ribera has been appointed ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), reinforcing the institute’s leadership. With this appointment, IFAE now hosts eight ICREA professors.
Gravitational Waves
Spain strengthens its participation in major gravitational-wave infrastructures
December 10, 2025
The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has allocated new funding to Spain’s participation in major international gravitational-wave infrastructures, with the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) designated as the institution through which these contributions will be channelled.
Results
LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA complete their richest gravitational-wave observation run to date
November 18, 2025
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has announced the completion of O4, the most productive gravitational-wave observation run so far, yielding an unprecedented number of candidate events and high-quality data for the scientific community.