The research group is focused on the optimization and biotechnological production of botanical and fungal biopesticides. This research is based on the growing need for new biopesticides motivated by food security requirements increasingly restrictive in the EU. We produce and optimize biopesticides by selectively screening plants, fungal endophytes associated with plants of interest and agricultural waste in order to improve our database and library of plant, fungal and waste based extracts of potential use in crop protection and pest control.

Astronomical observations, computational modelling and laboratory experiments of the physics and chemistry in interstellar and circumstellar media. Development of superconducting detectors, spectroscopic tools for data cube analysis and molecular spectroscopy line catalogues for the detection of new chemical species in Space. This is a multidisciplinary group providing a strong connection between Astrophysics, Chemical Physics, Experimental Astrochemistry, Materials Science and astronomical instrumentation for ground and space observatories.

The research group on Live Preys, Larviculture and Ecotoxicology, was established as such in 1984, and owes its origin and current diversity of research areas to initial studies focused on the biology, ecology, biodiversity and use in aquaculture of the branchiopod crustacean Artemia. The use of Artemia nauplii as live preys in marine larviculture, and the lack of knowledge on the biodiversity and biogeography of the species of the genus both on local and global scales, have largely conditioned the evolution of the team's lines of research during the first 25 years of existence.

The main goal of our research focuses in understanding the nearby universe to unravel the early stages of the universe, through observational and theoretical studies of a wide range of problems related to the structure and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, from their stellar and nebular components to their distribution and evolution at cosmological scales. The common thread is the charaterization and modeling of the physical processes that drive star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies, their radiative-mechanical-chemical feedback and their relation with the environment.

Development of advanced multifunctional catalysts for the production of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks such as captured CO2 and bio-syngas.

The Bionanomechanics Group (http://www.imm-cnm.csic.es/bionano/en) develops ultra-sensitive analytical tools for biomedicine inspired by unique phenomena occurring at the boundary between optics and mechanics at the micro- and nanoscale. The group's research ranges from the discovery of new physical phenomena in bio-interface to their technological exploitation for a relevant biomedical problem. In this effort, the group has expertise in physics, optical instrumentation, biofunctionalization, mechanobiology and biophysics.

Morphological flexibility of cell membranes provides the foundation for the spatial organization of living cells. The signature morphologies of cellular endomembrane systems are created at the nanoscale where specialized proteolipid complexes assemble to control membrane curvature, shape and topology.

Our group aims to unveil the structure of cellular machines to gain mechanistic insight into macromolecular function and assist the development of biomedical applications. For this, we use electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) and X-ray crystallography, both providing information to atomic resolution, combined with other biophysical and biochemical techniques. This integrative methodology is applied to study essential cell processes such as genome transcription, DNA repair and bacterial cell division.

The Oxide Nanoelectronics Group studies functional properties and phase transitions of oxides at the nanoscale. The interest in oxides stems from the vast array of functional properties they display; the principal properties that we study are ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, electronic transport (including metal-insulator transitions and magnetorresistance), magnetoelectricity, elasticity and flexoelectricity. Our group has expertise in and facilities for the fabrication of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures, and for their characterization.