Research Fellows 2026

Ikerbasque - the Basque Foundation for Science, launched in 2026 a call offering 15 Research Fellow positions for postdoctoral researchers. These five year Fellowships are directed to promising young researchers; they are intended to offer a tenure track towards a PI role and independent research. The selected Fellows should be able to acquire the necessary skills for a research leader role in the future.

In this occasion, more than 100 independent external evaluators from 20 different countries participated in the evaluation process, under the coordination of the Ikerbasque Scientific Advisory Committee.

Ikerbasque endorses the European Charter for Researchers. Ikerbasque improves the career evaluation methods in order to create a more transparent, open, equal and internationally accepted system of recruitment.

109 full eligible applications were screened by our external evaluators, coordinated by the Ikerbasque Scientific Advisory Committee. The evaluation committee has short-listed 15 applications (14%) with over 85 points out of the possible 100 points, based on:

• Scientific merit and research track
• Interest of the Research Statement provided in the application
• Relevance of research topic and latest publications
• Concordance with Basque research capabilities

This 2026 call has already been evaluated and these are the selected Research Fellows (ordered by last name's alphabetical order):

For additional information about the evaluation of your application, please log in our website (calls.ikerbasque.net) with your username and check the report.

If you wish to check Research Fellows selected in previous calls, please refer to Researchers section in our website.