The group is formed by experts in the growth and characterization of materials. During the last years the group has focused its activities on surfaces, interfaces and nanoparticles (NPs). Between 2012 and 2018 the group has also achieved technological developments that have led to 5 patents, 3 of them being licensed (for high performance AFM tips and growth of NPs) and it has created 2 spin-off companies. The efforts in technological developments have provided new tools to manufacture novel nanomaterials whose properties and applications are under study.

Our aim is to make use of micro-nanotechnologies to obtain micro-nanodevices built from microstructures with an architecture that confers them an added functionality (resonant structures, thermal isolated structures, 3D topography...) and on occasions the synthesis of sensitive or functional materials that allow interaction with the environment. In this way, transducing physical or chemical phenomena into electricity, both information and energy can be obtained from the surroundings leading to sensors, micro-energy sources and, eventually, autonomous or self-powered sensors.

The activity of the group is focused on researching novel technological solutions for future generations of semiconductor circuits with a multidimensional approach.

The group activities are related to the design and test of analog, mixed-signal and radio-frequency integrated circuits (AMS-RF ICs), targeting a broad application range.

This group is dedicated to the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Special is given to the following lines: low-power and low-voltage design techniques in deep sub-micron technologies; A/D converters, time-to-digital converters and mixed-signal interfaces; smart implantable and portable biosensing devices; CMOS image sensors, time-of-flight sensors, single-photon detectors and vision chips; heterogeneous sensor/processor microsystems; vertically integrated circuit design (CMOS-3D). The group is formed by professors and researchers from the University of Seville and CSIC.

The Deep Earth Processes and Cycles Group – Granada (G-DEEP) is a research group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) based at the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IACT–CSIC). It brings together researchers dedicated to the study of the formation and evolution of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle, as well as the deep geochemical cycles of the solid Earth. The group conducts multidisciplinary research integrating, among other approaches, mineralogical, petrological, experimental, geochemical, and geochronological studies.

Research in this department investigates natural and engineered mineral processes on the surfaces of Earth and other planetary bodies. Employing a combination of field studies, laboratory experiments, and computational modeling, our work integrates mineralogy, (bio)geochemistry, planetary science, and physical chemistry to elucidate the mechanisms governing mineral formation and their interactions with the surrounding environment.

The Environmental Economics line of research focuses on problems related with methodological advance on integrated national environmental accounting and non-market services economic valuation on the issues of forest management, agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, renewable energies, climate change, biodiversity, water resources and other ecosystems and natural resources subject to increasing scarcity, and which provide essential public and private goods to sustain the economic wellbeing reached in industrialised societies and the improvement of the quality of life in current societies whos

Research across (and into) processes of change in rural areas from a geographical perspective, with special attention to the interactions between the social, cultural and environmental dimensions of rural change. Besides present interest the theory and history of rural geography and policy-related research. Traditionally rural areas are spaces of change, recently characterized by their intensity and persistence in all dimensions. The contemporary processes of rural change cover all dimensions of rural life.