Opportunities for researchers
Researchers employed by the EHU
The EHU offers a wide range of opportunities for you to work as a researcher on high-level projects and at state-of-the-art facilities, alongside distinguished colleagues, with options to continue your career at the university with the highest scientific output in the Basque Country. The EHU regularly recruits research staff through at least the following types of procedures:
Recruitment of pre- and post-doctoral research staff through the Vice-Rectorate for Research (Research Management Directorate – Calls for Applications).
Email: pre-postdoc.dgi@ehu.eus
Recruitment of pre- and postdoctoral researchers through the Vice-Rectorate for Research (EHUrOPE – International R&D Office).
Email: msca@ehu.eus
- Calls for applications from Ikerbasque and Science.eus
Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science, established by the Basque Government to promote scientific research in the Basque Country), and
Science.eus, the Basque Country’s science portal
Researchers not employed by the EHU
* If you are interested in undertaking a research placement at the EHU, you can contact research groups or centres linked to your field of study (EHU Contacts). Once you have found a unit willing to host you, you must ensure that you complete the necessary formalities so that your placement at the EHU can be formalised. The EHU hosts research staff in centres, laboratories or other research facilities through at least two types of procedure:
The EHU hosts pre- and post-doctoral researchers – who, at their home institutions, have a contract or similar arrangement, remuneration or a stipend – in the EHU’s centres, laboratories or other research facilities.
These stays are managed through the Vice-Rectorate for Research (Research Management Directorate).
Email: convenios.dgi@ehu.eus
Through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EHU hosts pre- and post-doctoral staff without a contract.
These placements are managed by EHUrOPE – the International R&D Office, within the Vice-Rectorate for Research.
Email: msca@ehu.eus
* If you are a PhD student enrolled at another university and wish to undertake a research stay at the EHU, you may do so within the framework of an EHU doctoral program that agrees to host you. The EHU Doctoral School manages these stays; details can be found in the "Visitors Researchers (Incoming)" section of its website.
Email: international.doke@ehu.eus
IMPORTANT for PhD candidates who are not nationals of EU states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland and who wish to undertake stays exceeding three months: PhD candidates coming to the Doctoral School for a stay are classified primarily as "students." The visa application process is simpler under"student" status than under "researcher" status. This is because the application for a study-related stay authorization or visa can be handled directly by the doctoral candidate from start to finish, whereas the stay authorization for researchers must first be initiated by the EHU; the interested researcher can only apply for its issuance once it has been validated by the competent Spanish authorities.