The Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) is recruiting various tenured researchers, including up to two positions of interest to migration scholars.
The Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA), a unit of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) based in Córdoba (Spain) that specializes in cutting-edge research on topics of outstanding importance within and beyond academia, is looking to recruit up to six tenured researchers with various scientific profiles.
These opportunities arise in the context of an unusually vast recruitment drive by Spain’s public-sector research system (https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2025/12/31/pdfs/BOE-A-2025-27154.pdf). Two positions are of potential interest to migration scholars, namely the ones with profiles “demographic challenges, migration, integration, and public policies” and “problems and challenges of contemporary democracies”, respectively (international migration and its management, real or perceived migration impacts, as well as public attitudes and their implications for political behavior, are salient challenges to that effect). Note that whereas the second of those positions is destined firmly to IESA, the first may be destined to any of three CSIC institutes, including IESA.
Candidates need to be in possession of a PhD (or have defended their thesis) by application deadline; the equivalence of PhDs obtained outside the EU’s common space of higher education has to be certified. Applicants also have to present a detailed CV and a summary of 10 key contributions, as well as an outline of the field’s state of the art and their future research activities. These requirements imply that fluent dominion of the Spanish language is indispensable.
In case of interest in any of the above-mentioned migration-related positions, you may contact Sebastian Rinken (