The research group belong to a Spanish centre of higher education, on which, nearly 25,000 students enroll each year and more than 2,600 lecturers are employed, and nearly 1,000 people work with administration tasks. This university offers 29 doctoral programs, 13 of them are interuniversity programs.
The organization manages around 180 research projects per year funded through international and national competitive public R&D (research and development) grants.