Good food, great weather, and la marcha, Spain's enviable quality of life, make it one of the most enduringly popular European countries. But what about studying for your Ph.D. or doing a postdoc there? In spite of many scientific achievements, issues of low funding, rigid bureaucracy, and inbred career structures dominate the general perception of Spanish research. But some recent developments i...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX I work in the Science Policy Department of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares ( CNIC), the Spanish national centre for cardiovascular research, which was established by the Spanish ministry of health as a centre of excellence to give impetus to biomedical research in this area. My somewhat vainglorious job title seeks to describe a range of activitie...
