* This article has been corrected. The photograph above was incorrectly identified as José Pablo Zamorano; it is, in fact, Jordi Petriz.

The Spanish government has tried to minimize the postdoc ‘brain drain’ since 1992, when it established a scheme to find work for scientists who received postdoc training abroad. It hoped that giving them three-year ‘re-entry’ positions would staunch the flow of Spanish scientists to other countries. But after participating in such a programme, Zamorano, like many other young Spanish scientists who sought training abroad, finds himself looking for work in other countries again — permanent public-sector jobs are still scarce in Spain.

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