Diseases of aquatic organisms, with main focus on parasitic diseases of farmed fish: diagnose, treatment, prevention and control in aquaculture.

Currently (November 2023) the group is made up of three permanent members: a senior scientist (Carlos Saavedra), a RyC researcher (Diego Kersting), and a senior laboratory technician (David Cordero). In addition, a predoctoral fellow and a hired technician have joined. Specialization: population genetics and genomics of marine organisms. Molecular ecology. Genetic markers (microsatellites, mtDNA, SNPs). Transcriptomics. Bivalve farming techniques. Marine ecology. Mediterranean corals.

The research group on Live Preys, Larviculture and Ecotoxicology, was established as such in 1984, and owes its origin and current diversity of research areas to initial studies focused on the biology, ecology, biodiversity and use in aquaculture of the branchiopod crustacean Artemia. The use of Artemia nauplii as live preys in marine larviculture, and the lack of knowledge on the biodiversity and biogeography of the species of the genus both on local and global scales, have largely conditioned the evolution of the team's lines of research during the first 25 years of existence.

The Group is composed 3 staff researchers, and it currently participates in 5 European projects (PERFORMFISH, MAGNIFICIENT, EATFISH, AQUAIMPACT, AQUAEXCEL3.0) and the PI of the Group is also the PI of CSIC in 4 of them. Research is carried out on fish growth, nutrition-genome interaction, and the development of new aquaculture feeds through omics techniques (transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, microbiome) and biosensors of behavior and metabolic activity. The generation of virtual production models with environmental and animal monitoring is a new field of interest.

The activity of the group focuses on the micro and nanostructuring of polymers and liquid crystals in the search of novel functional polymeric systems of interest in different application fields such as Biomedicine, Photonics and Soft Robotics.

Synthesis, experimental and theoretical studies on organic molecules with nonlinear optical activity and dyes for DSSC (Dye Sensitized Solar Cells)

Our interests are focused in the investigation and development of structural and functional ceramics for energy applications and their devices.

The RASMIA Research Group focuses its activity on the use of Synchrotron Radiation for research in materials science and nanotechnology, and low temperature techniques Our object of study are magnetic materials, oxides and molecular, with application in spintronics, investigated with various techniques and in particular, with Synchrotron Radiation. Spintronics is a new technology based on spin currents, relevant in ICTs today, and even more in the medium and long term, for enabling energy-competitive technological solutions.

The main goal of our research focuses in understanding the nearby universe to unravel the early stages of the universe, through observational and theoretical studies of a wide range of problems related to the structure and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, from their stellar and nebular components to their distribution and evolution at cosmological scales. The common thread is the charaterization and modeling of the physical processes that drive star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies, their radiative-mechanical-chemical feedback and their relation with the environment.

Our research group is focussed on the study of relativistic jets, highly collimated fluids containing relativistic particles moving at velocities close to that of the speed of light that are present in multiple astrophysical sites, from active galactic nuclei, to gamma-ray bursts and microquasars.