The Agrosystems Biology Group (BAS) proposes transdisciplinary objectives and strategies, to face global problems of cultivated species that can be the object of horizontal transfer of knowledge and technology, incorporating plant genetic resources as a source of studies of diversity and genetics, and carrying out improvement programs for the development of new genetically improved varieties.

Chemical characterization and valorization of plant biomass and utilization of biotechnological tools to improve its uses (i.e. for the production of cellulose, lignin, bio-fuels, lipids and chemicals). Our investigations fit with the following priorities of the new Framework Programme of the European Union, Horizon 2020: I.2. Priority Excellent Science: Development of Future and Emerging Technologies. II.4. Priority Competitive Industries: Biotechnology III.3. Priority Better Society: Reliable, Clean, Efficient Energy III.5.

Global change impacts on the dynamics of Mediterranean forests. Plant-soil feedbacks in forests and agroforestry systems. Plant-animal and plant-microbe interactions. Soil ecology. Biogeoquemistry of nutrients and stable isotopes. Outreach of the ecological, social and economic implications of scientific results.

Diversity, genomics, physiology and biotechnology of microorganisms and their communities in a variety of environments with a model on extreme conditions. The group and activities have the possibility of getting integrated into different ERC disciplines within the “Life Sciences”, including the sections LS8, LS9, LS2 and LS1.

Our main aim is to investigate ecological processes modulating organism’s adaptive evolution. We focus on phenotypic traits related to behaviour and ecological interactions, being interested in exploring proximate mechanisms and ultimate functions, integrating levels of organization from genes to ecosystems. The study of species interactions and their geographical variation are central aspects of the group’s research lines. We work in the field and in the lab, as well as “in silico”, using as models a wide range of organisms and systems.

Study of the hadronic structure from quark models, effective theories, sum rules and AdS/CFT duality. Spectra and properties of mesons, barions, ecotics and glueballs. Outside these main lines of research we are carrying out studies of the properties of monopoles and are participating in its detection within the MoEDAL collaboration. Our global area is Matter.

The group of Experimental High Energy Physics at Colliders has as main scientific motivation the study of the fundamental interactions in particle physics. Its main chracteristic is the us of accelerators and high performant detectors that allow to reproduce the conditions and productions of the reactions under study. The group cooperates activily and is a pillar member in most of the front-end experiments of the field and in the proposals for future experiments.

1) Activities related to the Higgs boson physics program with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In particular study of the Higgs boson decay modes into photons, taus and vector bosons. 2) Development of the read-out electronics of the ATLAS calorimeter for the HL-LHC (High Luminosity-LHC)

This research line studies the intrinsic properties of the neutrino. The group studies the phenomenon of oscillations between neutrino families, measuring the parameters that define such oscillations. It also tries to elucidate the nature of the neutrino, namely whether the neutrino is a Majorana or a Dirac fermion. IFIC leads the NEXT experiment searching for neutrino-less double beta decay, whose detection would imply that neutrinos are Majorana particles.

Research focused in the interphase between gravity and quantum theory. Mainly concerning quantum black holes, acoustic black holes, cosmology, gravitational waves, and quantum gravity. Our research is strongly related with: quantum field theory in curved spacetime, modified gravity and the general theory of spacetime deformations.