The IPP research group "Citizens and Institutions" is a consolidated team, with a top-level international research trajectory. The group's mission is to generate knowledge about the social and political mechanisms that explain the relationship between institutions and citizenship in Spain, within the context of the institutions of the European Union, as well as in the broader scope of democratic societies.

The research group focuses on cultural landscapes as the basis for understanding social formations in Ancient Hispania. Landscape is understood as synthesis of social relations and their environment. Our Landscape Archaeology approach enables an integral analysis of all types of information, including archaeological and written data.The group is also involved in the development of innovative research methodologies and techniques that guarantee both the comprehensive treatment of the record and an adequate research strategy.

Networks of Power in Medieval Societies is an interdisciplinary research group composed of specialists in al-Andalus (Eduardo Manzano), Christian kingdoms (Inés Calderón, Julio Escalona, Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro, and Ana Rodríguez), medieval art (Therese Martin), and archaeology (Fabio Giovannini), with Ramón y Cajal researchers in al-Andalus (Jorge Elices) and art (Jitske Jasperse), plus pre- and post-doctoral researchers on project-based contracts.

Social studiez on the Spanish Golden Age, further more the Humanism and the Historiography, and the making of the protonational identity forms. Social study of the cultural forms, mostly those written during the Renaissnce and the Late Renaissance. Biographies of the humanists, the cultural intermediaries and the makers of the cultural images.

The Research Group (RG) studies the Iberian societies of the western Mediterranean in the broader context of cultural contact, colonialism and the social transformations associated with the formation of the Mediterranean states of the I millennium. The RG focuses mainly on the analysis of the social structure and territorial organization of Iberian societies.

The Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab (VIOBIO) develops new technologies focus for research, evaluation and improvement of vision. The Group is also pioneer in the research of the eye’s optical and structural changes caused by myopia, corneal disease and treatment, crystalline lens accommodation and aging (presbyopia). One of the most remarkable recent achievements of the Group is the 3-D high-resolution full quantitative biometry and geometry of the eye. The group has also pioneered discoveries on the visual impact of the ocular optics using adaptive optics.

The IVIS group does research in areas related to signal processing and vision modeling in applications such as microscopy, computational photography, medical imaging, etc. Our research has two well differentiated aspects: (1) The development of models (visual, physical, statistical) and algorithms derived from those models (for estimation, detection, classification, etc.); and (2) The application of those algorithms to a wide range of real problems in different applied research areas, such as the ones mentioned above.

Analysis, from a fundamental perspective, of the molecular basis for glycoside recognition by nucleic acids and proteins. Development of new strategies for the design and synthesis of bioactive glycoside ligands.

The scientific interests of our research group have evolved from the development of reductive coupling methods with low valence metals for the stereoselective synthesis of natural cyclitols and carbocyclic glycommetics, and their study as specific enzyme inhibitors, to the design, synthesis and characterization of new "tailor-made" photosensitized nanostructured materials with improved biophotonic behavior for advanced biomedical applications.