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Instrument assembly

IFAE researchers and engineers complete the first Virgo baffle pre-assembly at EGO

May 7, 2026

IFAE members from the gravitational waves group and technical division completed the first pre-assembly of a baffle for the Virgo detector at EGO, ahead of its planned installation next week.

Event

ET-PP INFRA-DEV Annual Meeting 2026 takes place in Barcelona

May 5, 2026

From 5 to 7 May 2026, the Einstein Telescope Preparatory Phase INFRA-DEV Annual Meeting is being held in Barcelona, hosted by the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies. The event takes place at the UPF Barcelona School of Management.

New Member

New member in the ATLAS group

April 29, 2026

Nadav Tamir joined the ATLAS group at IFAE as a postdoctoral researcher

Workshop

Einstein Telescope Vacuum and Cryogenics Industrial Workshop at CERN

April 22, 2026

CERN hosts an industrial workshop on vacuum and cryogenics challenges for the Einstein Telescope, with Mario Martínez delivering the opening talk.

Testing

IFAE hosts testing of Greek CubeSat mission hardware

April 16, 2026

IFAE’s TVAC chamber is being used to test the Helios CubeSat, part of Greece’s Hellenic Space Dawn mission to validate Earth observation, inter-satellite links and secure optical communications technologies in orbit.

New publication

New publication by the QCT group

April 8, 2026

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Superconducting Nitridized Aluminum Thin Films

New members

New members in administration

March 25, 2026

Welcome Doae, Shahed and Triana

Conference Italian Embassy

Eugenio Coccia participates in a conference at the Italian Embassy in Madrid

March 19, 2026

The conference focused on advancing our understanding of the Universe.

New leadership

Einstein Telescope Collaboration appoints new leadership

March 19, 2026

Michele Maggiore has been selected as its new Spokesperson, with Angélique Lartaux appointed Deputy Spokesperson.