ELECTRON MICROSCOPY RESEARCH UNIT

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY RESEARCH UNIT


The Electron Microscopy Division focuses on the use of electron microscopy techniques for nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications. Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology, with an ever decreasing size of materials and structures, brings the need for advanced characterisation with high spatial resolution to obtain a deep understanding of the structure-property-function relationships.

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Science, Technology and Society

Science, Technology and Society


The Science, Technology and Society Group (STS) has long experience in historical, social and cultural studies of science and technology, their social implications and their explicit and implicit values. The main issues addressed in this research group are: the history and epistemologies of science and technology; studies of science, technology and gender and disability studies; and the social dynamics of knowledge production. The STS research group of the Instituto de Filosofía is fully focused in studies of science, technology and medicine.

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Applied Ethics Group (GEA)

Applied Ethics Group (GEA)


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.

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Phenomenology

Phenomenology


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.

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Social and Political Philosophy (FISOPOL)

Social and Political Philosophy (FISOPOL)


Multidisciplinary research in social and political philosophy in order to develop a theory of justice that takes into account and relate different aspects, such as the spatial (global justice, migrations and exiles, environment, cities and post-national citizenship) and temporal dimension (memory, history), narrative features (nation stories, literature) and gender perspective (human rights, feminism, intersectionality) as well as cultural diversity (identities, interculturalism, nationalism).

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THEORIA CUM PRAXI (TcP): ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY and SOCIETY

THEORIA CUM PRAXI (TcP): ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY and SOCIETY


The Research Group THEORIA CUM PRAXI (TcP) ETHICS, EPISTEMOLOGY and SOCIEDAD was named after the Leibnizian adage, adopted by Kant in Theorie and Praxis, whose understanding was that all Praxis can be realised and improved from Theory. From Ethical, Philosophical and Culture coordinates, the group assumes the enlightened motto that ideas should mould our daily lives.

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Demographic Dynamics

Demographic Dynamics


Research Group on Demographic Dynamics, IEGD, CCHS, CSIC Web: http://demografia.iegd.csic.es/ The activity of the Research Group on Demographic Dynamics began in 2002. On one hand, it is oriented towards basic research in the field of demography, especially in the areas of: fertility, nuptiality, migration and health-mortality, and, on the other hand, towards the realisation of applied demography studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes: economics, sociology, public health, geography, statistics, history...

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Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC)

Research Group on Ageing (GIE-CSIC)


The Research Group on Aging - CSIC (GIE-CSIC) was established in 1989 at the Institute of Economics and Geography, to face the analysis of the aging of the Spanish population which began to be considered in those years as a subject of significant social importance. Group members agreed (i) to contribute to the scientific research on aging in Spain, which has resulted in an extensive curriculum (projects and contracts, publications, participation in various scientific and outreach activities), and (ii) to interact with other social research lines, disciplines and groups.

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Cross-border human mobility between East and West, in the European geopolitical context

Cross-border human mobility between East and West, in the European geopolitical context


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

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