The best young European Physical grant runs out in Spain - The País.com (Spain)

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Physicist Diego Martinez Santos

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committee evaluating candidates for scholarships Ramón y Cajal program, which aims to encourage repatriation to Spain of senior researchers, under the auspices of the Ministry of Research, denied his request alleging Diego Martinez Santos their lack of “international leadership”. But about the same time the European Physical Society gave this scientist Galician 30 years the award for best physique of the continent, an award which is awarded every two years. Martinez Santos, originally from Foz (Lugo), spent three years at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, where he did the work that has earned him the recognition of the European physics community. He is now employed by the Institute for Particle Physics in the Netherlands, known as Nikhef, and lives between Amsterdam and Geneva.

Martinez Santos studied at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Santiago, where he received his doctorate with a “grand theory,” says Professor Carlos Pajares Compostela, Spain delegate to CERN. His career allowed him to get a contract for three years at the institution based in Geneva, where his work on the Large Hadron Collider on a particle known as Meson B have served now for the recognition of the European Physical Society. After concluding the contract in the Swiss city six months ago started working at the Netherlands Institute, who hired him for another three years.

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But his intention was to return to Santiago, if possible, and if not elsewhere in Spain or Italy, “where do somewhere warmer than here,” said the scientist to the newspaper La Voz de Galicia. So chose the Ramón y Cajal program. And the coincidence would have it the same day he communicated the rejection of his application in Spain found out also that recognized him as the best European young physicist. “Ramón y Cajal program is for children under 35 years and probably has primacy to approaching that age so definitely not remain outside,” explains Professor Carlos Pajares. “I guess as Diego is younger, have thought that it will have more opportunities.” The scientist could choose again next year for the scholarship that would allow him to return, but have not yet been decided.