Quantum Gravity and Cosmology. Loop quantization of General Relativity: Loop Quantum Gravity and Loop Quantum Cosmology. Black Hole Physics. Gravitational waves with LISA and ET. General Relativity: Canonical Quantization. Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes. Quantum geometry and multifractal geometry. Non-local Quantum Gravity. Geometric Hamiltonian formalism. Combinatorics.

Study and comprehension of fundamental and unconventional properties of strongly correlated and mesoscopic systems, through the development of new approaches to the many-body problem and the generalization of exactly soluble models for the description of exotic phases. Our research is focused on some of the most relevant lines at present within the field of condensed matter physics, such as cold atoms, graphene and topological quantum matter, which are complemented with the treatment of non-equilibrium phenomena and applications to quantum technologies.

The research in our group faces highly topical open problems in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. These problems are related to nuclear structure aspects, reactions, and decay properties of exotic nuclei. Our approach to the problem is based on theoretical formalisms which represent the present state-of-the-art. On one hand, we use three-body techniques to describe light nuclei and, on the other hand, we use a correlated selfconsistent mean field formalism based on effective interactions for the description of nuclei along the nuclear chart.

The Experimental Nuclear Physics Group is dedicated to the study of the structure and dynamics of exotic nuclei and resonant states beyond the drip-line. The nuclei of interest are populated either in nuclear reactions at low or high energies by Coulomb excitation or transfer reactions, as well as via beta decay. We carry out our experiments at international laboratories of high prestige as ISOLDE-CERN (Switzerland), GSI (Germany), the GANIL (France), TRIUMF (Canada) and RIKEN (Japan) and complement them with studies carried out here in Madrid at the tandem accelerator of the UAM.

Our activity focuses into the study of systems and processes (usually of interest in Nanoscience) that do not fit within conceptual frameworks paradigmatic of the last century such as thermodynamic equilibrium, long-range order or thermodynamic limit. A characteristic aspect of the group is the complementary use in our scientific studies of neutron scattering together with cutting edge numerical techniques. From such activities naturally grew up a line focused in the development of state of the art instrumentation for neutron scattering installations.

Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopies of molecules on plasmonic nanoparticles: Adsorption, Detection and Nanocatalysis. Theoretical study of the resonant phenomena of the electromagnetic field on plasmon and semiconductor nanostructures, metasurfaces, and topological photonic insulators.

The group of soft matter and polymeric physics consists of scientists from the Institute of Structure of Matter trained in polymer physics. The group was formed at the beginning of the past decade. Based on the knowledge of traditional polymer physics, the group addresses two different aspects. On the one hand, focuses on the study of nanostructuring Soft Matter based systems, facing the possible application design, always from a physical point of view, taking into account the physical implications of these processes for nanostructuring.

BIOPHYM is a group devoted to experimental and computational research activities related to the fundamental physics of macromolecular systems: molecular dynamics, assembly, functionality and recycling of synthetic polymers and biomacromolecular systems, these latter related to breast cancer medical treatment. Biophym is particularly concerned on maintaining a constant link with the industrial sector. The formation of pH.D. students is also an imput for this group.

Experimental group, pioneer and worldwide reference in the quantitative study of gas dynamics at molecular scale by Raman spectroscopy. The problems investigated so far includes micromapping (density and temperature mapping with resolution of micron) and kinetics of supersonic gas jets, shock waves, molecular clustering, inelastic collisions, and crystallization of liquid microjets (Welcome page news on CSIC web, June 2011).

The group is made out of scientists with complementary backgrounds and expertise focused on the research of basic problems in the realm of Molecular Physics. The subjects of study are mainly systems of relevance in astronomical environments or in the Earth’s atmosphere. The group works in close collaboration with astrophysicists and atmospheric scientists. A combination of experimental techniques and theoretical approaches is used for the investigation of the selected objectives.