The main objective of the research group is the study of the sedimentary record, the analysis of climate change and palaeodiversity on different spatio-temporal scales. It also addresses the characterisation of environmental changes and mineral formation related to changing geochemical systems. It also includes research on global change associated with the transformation of the earth's surface by anthropogenic action and the transfer of solutions to mitigate its effects.

The IAA's Solar Physics Group (SPG) is a dynamic research group whose main scientific interests root in solar spectropolarimetry and magnetic fields from all the three points of view: theoretical, observational, and instrumental. Investigations and developments are carried out on: 1) the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for polarized light in the presence of magnetic fields; 2) the inversion of the RTE for its use on the interpretation of spectropolarimetric measurements; 3) the structure and physical nature of photospheric magnetic structures like plage and network flux tubes, the umbra, th

The GAPT (http://gapt.iaa.es, www.trappa.es) has a long tradition on the study of the planetary atmospheres by analyzing their IR non-LTE emissions. We have participated in many space missions since the early 90's, as SAMS, ATMOS, ISAMS, and CLAES. More recently we have been Co-Is of the TIMED/SABER of NASA, Vex/VIRTIS, ETGO/NOMAD, and members of the SAG and QWG of Envisat/MIPAS. We are experts in non-LTE radiative transfer, in retrievals of temperature and composition from non-LTE IR emissions, and in the physics and chemistry of the middle and upper regions of planetary atmospheres.

Analysis of the genomic variability in domestic animals. Unraveling the genetic architecture of complex traits.

We aim to discover, inventory and classify biodiversity and to understand the evolutionary processes underlying animal diversification. We develop strategies and best practices for the inventory, discovery and description of biodiversity, using state-of-the-art phenotypic, genetic data and bioinformatics approaches. We apply homology-based classification techniques based on morphological, molecular and behavioral data, and develop theoretical foundations for taxonomic inference.

Agricultural residues are being used as Renewable Raw Materiales (RRM) for use in a wide variety of projects. Given their origen, these materials are economically very competitve with the conventionally used synthetic materials and also help to close a circle where the residues produced from one industry can be used in the same or another as a RRM, thus reducing the amount of waste and helping towards a sustainable economy.

The Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate group (AC2) is a newly created research group within CSIC¿s Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano (IQFR). The group initiated its research activities in Augoust 2009 in Toledo as the former Laboratory for Atmospheric and Climate Science, since December 2012 AC2 is based at IQFR in Madrid. AC2 research efforts are directed at studying the role of atmospheric composition and chemistry in the climate system.

The research group on the sociology of innovation studies the social conditions that contribute to innovative societies both in economic and social terms. It focuses on the elements of social and cultural structure that shape innovation systems and their effects in knowledge generation, knowledge transfer and diffusion of innovation in firms, public administrations and non-governmental institutions.

This research group is organized around a single research program focused on the social and gender dimensions of health. The interpretative theoretical model of health that guides this program—providing meaning, coherence, and temporal continuity to its projects, research lines, and, more generally, to the scientific output of the group’s members—is grounded in the biopsychosocial model. From this perspective, any health phenomenon is understood as inherently multidimensional, with the social dimension being essential for its analysis and interpretation.

Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of death in developed countries. Risk factors such as increased blood pressure or plasma cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, pollution or a sedentary way of life, exert their actions on top of a sophisticated machine composed by a pump (the heart) and tube network (the vasculature), whose biomechanical properties depend on the extracellular matrix. Far from being an stiff and static material, the extracellular matrix is a dynamic structure able to respond to a number of signals as a consequence or damage or in the context of a hereditary disease.