Prize
Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards
November 15, 2023
Gravitational Waves GroupAlba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards
The Virgo Award Committee recognized her activity during her PhD at IFAE within the search for the stochastic background of gravitational waves within the LVK collaborations, from modeling and development of novel data analysis strategies all the way to instrumentation.
The Virgo Awards are given by the international Virgo Collaboration, every year, to young scientists of the collaboration, for their significant contribution to the operation of the experiment and to the results of the Virgo Collaboration.
Network
IFAE joins REDONGRA, a network to propel Spain’s role in gravitational wave astronomy
July 7, 2025
The Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) is one of the key partners in REDONGRA, the new Spanish Network of Gravitational Wave Physics. The initiative brings together 20 research institutions to coordinate Spain’s contribution to gravitational wave science.