Several of these grants include predoctoral research training contracts (PIF), for which applications will open shortly

More than ten projects led by researchers from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences have been selected within the 2024 Call for Knowledge Generation Projects of the Spanish State Research Agency. Image: ICMAT/Álvaro Minguito

More than ten projects led by researchers from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences have been selected within the 2024 Call for Knowledge Generation Projects (PID) of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, with co-funding from the European Union

These grants, totalling nearly €800,000, will start in 2025 and will run for three to four years. Through them, researchers at the Institute will carry out research across a broad range of areas, including inverse problems, Banach lattices, arithmetic and combinatorics, geometric group theory, incompressible fluid mechanics, inverse problems and inequalities, integrable systems, field and information theories, and mathematics applied to biomedicine

In addition, four of these projects include the recruitment of predoctoral researchers, who will undertake a doctoral thesis during the lifetime of the grants. These contracts include additional funding to cover doctoral fees and research stays at other R&D centres. The selected candidates will join in the first half of 2026. Applications for the CSIC contracts are open from 19 December 2025 to 8 January 2026 via the following link.

More than ten projects awarded at ICMAT

The projects awarded to ICMAT staff in the PID 2024 call are as follows:

• “Banach lattices, geometric theory of evaluations and machine learning”. Principal investigators: Pedro Tradacete (ICMAT–Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) and Ignacio Villanueva (Complutense University of Madrid, UCM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Function spaces and operator bounding techniques in analysis”. Principal investigators: María Jesús Carro (ICMAT–UCM) and Javier Soria (ICMAT–UCM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Additive combinatorics and analysis”. Principal investigators: Fernando Chamizo (ICMAT–Autonomous University of Madrid, UAM) and Pablo Candela (ICMAT–UAM). This project includes a predoctoral contract (through the Autonomous University of Madrid).
• “Groups acting on Cantor spaces”. Principal investigators: Javier Aramayona (ICMAT–CSIC) and Alejandra Garrido (ICMAT–UCM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Groups and group algebras”. Principal investigators: Andrei Jaikin (ICMAT–CSIC) and Leo Margolis (ICMAT–UAM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Stability in incompressible fluid mechanics”. Principal investigator: Ángel Castro Martínez (ICMAT–CSIC). This project includes a predoctoral contract (through CSIC).
• “Inverse problems and inequalities”. Principal investigator: María Ángeles García Ferrero (ICMAT–CSIC). This project includes a predoctoral contract (through CSIC).
• “Haantjes geometry and integrable systems (HGIS)”. Principal investigator: Piergiulio Tempesta (ICMAT–UCM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Analysis and geometry applied to inverse problems and mechanics”. Principal investigator: Daniel Faraco (ICMAT-UAM) and Luis Guijarro (ICMAT-UAM). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Categories, groupoids and their algebras in field and information theories”. Principal investigator: Alberto Ibort Latre (ICMAT–UC3M). This project does not include a predoctoral contract.
• “Collective cell movement and mathematics applied to biomedicine: simulation, analysis and inverse problems”. Principal investigator: Ana Carpio Rodríguez (ICMAT–UCM). This project includes a predoctoral contract (through the Complutense University of Madrid).