At iMARES, we develop evidence-based studies on marine species and ecosystems, with the ultimate goal of generating basic and applied scientific information that contributes to informing environmental and conservation policies for transformative ocean management. We promote an integrated understanding of the patterns and processes that drive the dynamics of marine species and ecosystems (past, present, and future) under the influence of accumulated stressors, and their consequences for the functioning of socio-ecological systems.

Applied ethics constitutes today one of the most fruitful research fields both in philosophy in particular and in the humanities and social sciences in general. Not surprisingly, it addresses the complexity and uncertainty of activities, practices and processes from ethical reflexivity and is therefore linked to the hottest public issues of our time: robotics and artificial intelligence, crisis of politics and good governance, human enhancement, human rights and duties, aging, etc.

The research group in phenomenology is driven by a philosophical, rather than historical, interest in the possibilities of analytical description of the living world. The group is devoted to the theoretical inquiry of the structure of experience and shows particular attention to the problematic of the living body and to the debates concerning its ontological status.

The research focuses on human mobility (with special emphasis on mobility from Eastern Europe to Spain, across borders), and geopolitical and social changes in Europe, Russia and Eurasia. The group that makes up this line of research involves researchers from the University of Valencia, Universidad Complutense, Universidad Carlos III, Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad de Alicante, University of Barcelona, University of Bucharest, University of Iasi, Romanian Academy, University of Odessa (Ukraine), Cernauti European Institute (Ukraine) University of Varna (Bulgaria), Russian Academy of Sc

The geographic information, generated, managed and analyzed with the help of technology such as remote sensing and GIS, provides a unique tool to analyze events and processes that occur on the territory, facilitating accurate, detailed and real-time information very useful to support the decision making that allow understanding the causes and mitigate the adverse effects of Global Change.

Researchers belonging to this group conduct taxonomic and systematic studies on families and genera of vascular plants, contributing to geographical flora or taxonomical monographic studies, mainly of the Mediterranean Basin and tropical areas. The aims of the group are to coordinate a team led from the Botanical Garden closely with other institutions and researches. The main resource is the great importance that means the Tropical and Mediterranean historical herbaria at RJB, with the attempt to profit this legacy, giving future projection to it.

Our research is focused on the study of the origin of plant diversity, integrating molecular, morphological and functional data using different approaches, including phylogenetic, biogeographic/phylogeographic and population, as well as niche modeling and evo-devo.

T lymphocytes are characterized by the expression of a specific antigen receptors, TCR, composed by two chains: alpha and beta, or gamma and delta. Our interests are focused in the study gene expression of the TCR genes T during development through the understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved s that control the expression of these genes at large distances by transcriptional enhancers during T lymphocyte development. These enhancers are regulated by the binding of transcriptional factors that depends on the signaling received by thymocytes: mainly, Notch, TCR and IL-7.