The group's research: - Focuses on coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. - Pursues the rational design of new catalysts and new catalytic applications. - Comprises two main types of activity: a) Synthesis of potential catalyst precursors: transition metal complexes incorporating new concepts, designs or structural motifs which, according to our working hypothesis, are suitable for the target catalytic applications. b) Study of the behavior of the novel complexes in solution and versus molecules relevant in the context of the target catalytic applications.

GiCSI deals with the Research & development of advanced techniques to grant Security, Authenticity, Integrity and Privacy to the information transmitted or stored by electronic means. It has wide experience in: 1) design of systems for text, image and voice encryption and their cryptanalysis; 2) protocols for pseudo random number generators, digital signatures and hash functions; 3) security of secret and public cryptosystems (distribution of primes, discrete logarithm and elliptic curves).

The Group of Genetics, Breeding and Biochemistry of Brassicas (https://brassicas.mbg.csic.es/) investigates in strategic lines of high social impact such as agricultural sustainability, healthy and safe food, climate change or exploitation of plant waste.

Study of the environmental behavior of agrochemicals (pesticides, plant growth regulators, allelopathic compounds, plant signaling products or plants hormones, etc.) and other compounds that can reach the soil as a consequence of human activities (pharmaceutical or veterinary drugs, industrial contaminants, urban contaminants, etc.). Also, this group develops strategies based on the use of sorbents (organic residues, biochar, and modified clays) to increase the efficacy of those agrochemicals and to minimize the environmental impact on the agroecosystem.

In the ECOVER research group, we focus on studying physiological processes associated with plant responses to water deficit, ranging from those related to growth and production to those involved in plant mortality. After analyzing these processes, we evaluate their application to agronomic and forestry systems.

This group develops a synthesis discipline and uses data from different fields of biology: anatomical, karyological, cytogenetic, geographic, molecular, morphological, ecological niche, palynological and chemical. All of them are treated together to obtain a global vision of the plant species. Our main interest is in working on biodiversity, systematics and evolution of different taxa complexes, especially from the Compositae family.

With more than 30 years of existence, AHEP is a world-leading group in Particle Physics Phenomenology, currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Generalitat Valenciana. We also participate in EU-funded actions and in Spanish research networks like Multidark and RENATA. The training capacity of our team is well recognized, with 15 PhD theses completed in the last 10 years.

High Energy Physics Phenomenology: Flavour Physics and CP violation, Neutrino Physics, Dark matter, QCD. Astroparticle and Cosmology. Physics beyond the Standard Model.

The "Marine Microbiology" group works on the study of ecological and autoecological aspects of prokaryotes thriving in natural environments by means of culture independent (metagenomics, clone libraries, fluorescence microscopy...) as well as by culture dependent (isolation, genomics, mass spectroscopy...) methods. The group focuses its work mostly on aquatic habitats, marine and hypersaline environments, and is specialized on bacterial systematics and bioremediation of polluted environments.

The research activity of the group focuses on the main following lines: 1) Study of the molecular, cellular and physiological basis of fish reproduction 2) Development of environmental technologies, hormonal therapies, genetic engineering and reproductive cycle manipulation to control and study fish reproduction. Specifically the group activity is focused in the study of gonadotropins and sex steroids as key elements controlling gamentogénesis.