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Top 17 Scientific research centers based in Spain

RevenueBase identified 59 scientific research centers headquartered in Spain as of September 2026 and tracks 23,592 professional contacts across them, including 4,208 with verified work emails. Madrid is the largest hub.

This list covers scientific research centers headquartered in Spain, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

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The 17 largest scientific research centers based in Spain

Ranked by team size
Top 17 of 59 scientific research centers based in Spain, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to scientific research centers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceGranada, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0006,007 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“La apuesta por la investigación de calidad ha colocado a la Universidad de Granada en puestos destacados de los diferentes “rankings” a nivel nacional.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Strong evidenceMadrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+4,394 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC) is a government agency for basic and applied scientific research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Strong evidenceL'hospitalet De Llobregat, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000499 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge (IDIBELL) is a research CERCA center created in 2004.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceSan Sebastián, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500328 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ceit is a non profit research centre that was created by the University of Navarra in 1982.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMadrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000309 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), es un Centro Nacional del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), dependiente del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSolsona, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200155 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología Forestal de Cataluña (CTFC) es un centro de investigación adscrito a la Generalitat de Catalunya, y se relaciona con ella a través del…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceSevilla, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200154 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER) constituye un espacio de investigación multidisciplinar en biomedicina pionero en España, integrando la…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceSalamanca, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000135 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca es un Instituto de Investigación sanitaria acreditado por el Instituto de Salud Carlos en febrero de 2013 y que se constituye…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSantiago De Compostela, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200125 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) addresses challenges in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, New functional Materials and Synthetic Technologies for…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceMadrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500117 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas “Alberto Sols” (IIBM) es un Centro Mixto del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) y de la Universidad Autónoma de…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceMadrid, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200110 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Nanoscience is a fast-developing research field with an immense range of potential applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceA Coruña, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20069 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El CITIC (Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones) es un Centro Tecnológico singular impulsado por la Universidade da Coruña, con el fin de…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceBarcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“La institució és un centre de catalanística i, amb les seves seccions i societats filials, promou i desenvolupa la recerca en els diferents àmbits de la ciència i de la…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSantander, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20045 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“El Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria es un centro mixto de titularidad compartida entre la Universidad de Cantabria, el CSIC (Consejo Superior de…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Strong evidenceBarcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,00028 contacts →

Strong evidence

“BIST (The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology) is an institution of scientific cooperation of seven frontier research Catalan centers of high impact.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceVigo, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM) is the central element of the marine strategy of the University of Vigo and constitutes an interdisciplinary pole of reference at the local…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Strong evidenceOurense, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-2005 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Institute of Physics and Aerospace Sciences (IFCAE) was created with the vision of positioning itself as a research center of excellence and transfer of research results in…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Scientific research centers based in Spain at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
17.8%Verified-email coverage
399.9Average contacts per company
51-200Median size (employees)
16.9%Largest-city concentration · Madrid
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
7
11-50
3
51-200
26
201-500
11
501-1,000
4
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
2
10001+
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Spain, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Spain, over 59 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among scientific research centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Spain whose own description of what they do matches “scientific research centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names scientific research centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among scientific research centers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Spain are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,208 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names scientific research centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many scientific research centers are there based in Spain?

RevenueBase identified 59 scientific research centers headquartered in Spain as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Universidad DE Granada, headquartered in Granada, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most scientific research centers?

Madrid leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Barcelona (5) and Santander (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,208 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 59 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.