Islands have been considered as the best natural laboratories for the study of plant and animal evolution. Their evolutionary uniqueness and isolation make island dwellers prone to extinction in a scenario of climatic change and biodiversity crisis. Insular taxa form simplified communities, where ecological relationships and evolutionary processes can be studied more easily than on the continent. The Balearic Islands are particularly vulnerable to global change and human perturbations.

This research line is centered on a common core: the study of the physical mechanisms that can explain the dynamics of the coastal ocean system and its interactions with the nearshore and the open ocean, in a global change context. In other words, using a physical, biological and mathematical background, we study the underlying processes and the multidisciplinary effects of a well-defined complex and vulnerable system, the coastal ocean.

The of Group of Aquatic Macrophyte Ecology (GAME) focuses its activity in the biogeochemical and paleoecological aspects of the millenary accumulation in seagrass sediments. In the 2000's, GAME reported a high efficiency in the refractory accumulation of organic carbon in some seagrass species. This would be the origins of what we currently know as Blue Carbon. The dating of this sediments to calculate fluxes to the sink, revealed that the accumulation took place in a remarkable chronological order. This opened vast new vistas for the study of environmental change during the Holocene.

The group of “Fish reproduction and diversification” from IATS-CSIC was established in January 2004. It is made up by one senior scientist, Dr. Evaristo L. Mañanós, as the head of the group, a laboratory technician and punctually, students and visitors. The main research line is the study of the physiology and endocrinology of fish reproduction.

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

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.

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

The Stellar Systems Group (SSG) was created in 1988. Its members are mainly dedicated to the study of large stellar structures, stellar clusters and star formation via observations of resolved stellar populations in the Local Group. As concerns methodology, we focus on developing data bases - for example on Galactic O star and the Galactic Centre, exploiting massive data - such as the Gaia and J-PAS surveys, image analysis techniques for high angular resolution, and machine learning.

Design and synthesis of mono- and multifunctional catalysts with well defined, homogeneous active sites. Characterization by means of spectroscopic techniques combined with the use of probe molecules. Study of their reactivity in chemical processes, defined by a single step or by several steps (cascade reactions).

The group's activities include fundamental study of functional materials and devices, as well as design, development of devices and processes with a clear industrial orientation. The main areas of work are: 1. Development of fuel cells and electrolysers, typically for operation above 250 º C. 2. Catalytic conversion for energy processes, including the synthesis or electrosynthesis of different fuels and intermediate reactions as water gas shift in a wide range of temperatures. 3.