Research lines and proposed topics

• Instrumentation and optical calibration systems.
• Measurement and modelling of solar and UV radiation.
• Study of atmospheric components: aerosols, ozone, water vapour...
• Measurement and study of the optical properties of column aerosols through the AERONET network.
• Measurement and study of the optical properties of aerosols by in situ techniques.
• Spectroradiometry and hyperspectral remote sensing: atmospheric applications.
• Calibration of optical instruments.

• Evolution of greenhouse gases.
• Meteorology and climate change.
• Measurement of fluxes in the lower atmosphere.

• Geometric methods in supergravity (J.M. Izquierdo)
• Gravitation and Cosmology, video
• Raman spectroscopy and LIBS in planetary exploration, video
• Quantum gauge field theory: vacuum effects in the Standard Model, video (M. Donaire)
• Cosmic string formation (M. Donaire)
• Quantum optics (M. Donaire, L.M. Nieto)
• Quantum Technologies, video
• Supersymmetric quantum mechanics (L.M. Nieto)
• Quantum field theory in low dimensions (J.M. Muñoz)
• Quantization of solitons and extended objects (J.M. Muñoz)
• Quantum fields in domains with edge (J.M. Muñoz)
• Theory of self-adjoint extensions, and spectral functions of elliptic operators (J.M. Muñoz)
• Non-commutative space-time and quantum gravity (A. Ballesteros y F.J. Herranz)
• Hopf algebras and quantum groups (A. Ballesteros and F.J. Herranz)
• Integrable systems on curved spaces (A. Ballesteros and F.J. Herranz)

• Nanocellular polymers
• Multifunctional cellular materials
• Cellular nanocomposites
• Polyurethane foams
• Bioplastic cellular materials.

• Development of technology and biotechnology for the manufacture of devices
• Advanced systems for environmental, analytical and other technological applications.
• Advanced systems for biomedical applications (tissue engineering, drug dosage, etc.)
• Design, biosynthesis and characterisation of advanced, complex and multifunctional protein polymers

• Thermodynamic investigation of thermal, energetic and mass properties describing phase equilibria occurring in materials of interest

• Atomic Force Microscopy and Tunneling Effect
• Fluid Physics in systems with Nanopores and Micropores
• Gas Adsorption-Desorption Isotherms (Various Techniques)
• Study of the diffusivity, solubility and permeability of gases in polymeric materials.
• Electrokinetic effects and impedance spectroscopy
• Determination of Pore Distribution in Selective Porous Materials.
• Surface Properties.

• Study of the interaction of light with coupled semiconductor nanowires in different geometries
• Measurements of the electro-optical response of nanowires with axial heterojunctions
• Study on the accumulation of mechanical stresses in III-V semiconductor heterostructures with dimensions on the nanometric scale.
• Study on the accumulation of mechanical stresses in III-V semiconductor heterostructures with dimensions on the nanometric scale.
• Study of bifacial solar cells and comparison with monofacial cells
• Study of electronic properties in solar cells of III-V materials.

• Electrical characterisation of dielectric materials for microelectronic applications
• New dielectric materials with resistive and/or multiferroic switching properties
• Dynamics of the set and reset process in simple and complex memristive cells
• Ferroelectric materials characterisation techniques

• Atomistic modelling of irradiation of semiconductor materials
• Characterisation of defects in semiconductors using atomistic simulations
• Computational modelling of technological processes.

• Monte Carlo-Metropolis simulations of hydrogen storage in porous solid materials
• First-principles calculations of hydrogen physisorption in porous solid materials
• Ab-initio characterisation of structural and electronic properties of atomic nano-aggregates
• First principles study of metallic liquids and molten oxides.

• Computational studies, based on ab-initio DFT (Density Functional Theory) techniques, of the reactivity and physico-chemical properties of free and oxide-supported nanocatalysts
• Simulation of the absorption and reaction of simple molecules (CO, O2, H2O, H2, ethanol, etc...) in nano-aggregates formed by various transition metals and their alloys.

• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in materials
• Design, modelling and characterisation of artificial electromagnetic media (metamaterials)
• Numerical methods in the time domain for the study of electromagnetic wave propagation.

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• Synthesis and electromagnetic characterisation of metallic, ceramic, nanoparticulate, magnetic, piezoelectric and permanent magnet materials, etc.
• Design and application of systems for measuring the electromagnetic properties of materials: magnetoresistance, magnetoimpedance, microwave magnetoabsorption, magnetic relaxation processes, high-frequency electromagnetic measurements, etc.
• Development of simulation software for micromagnetic processes

• Vibrational Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy
• Development and calibration of extraplanetary exploration instruments.

• Archaeometry: characterisation of archaeological materials