Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Engenharia Geológica (CICEGe)

The main areas of research are:

• Exploitation and modelling of earth resources and interaction between geological and economical data;

• GIS applied to planning, management of earth resources and remediation of contaminated sites;

• Geotechnical studies for civil engineering, territorial planning and environmental preservation;

• Alterations of igneous and metamorphic rocks while exposed to natural aggressive environments or induced by man; experiments on silicate and carbonate rocks and dimension stones;

• Specific properties of industrial rocks and clay minerals for correct use in the industry;

• Palaeontology, stratigraphy and geological mapping of Meso-Cenozoic;

• Basin analysis;

• Geological heritage and geoscience diffusion.

Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos (CREM)

CREM is committed to research in areas of microbiology, with the general objectives of contributing to the advancement of fundamental knowledge, with a view to its potential application in biomedicine, fermentative industries and agro-sciences. CREM houses the Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, an internationally recognised yeast collection founded in 1952. CREM builds on interdisciplinary competences and promotes high quality training at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

The research and training programmes are developed around two research lines:

•   Molecular Evolution and Ecology;

•   Interactions Microorganism-Environment.