This grant is aimed at providing the IAC with the necessary equipment to have a leading optical laboratory to support and enable the necessary developments for all the future projects at IAC, moreover the creation of a production centre for optical elements up to 40-45 cm in diameter, which represents a first stage of development that aims to

CVOPTICON is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative of the 6th EU I+D+i framework programme for improving the coordination of the European astronomical community in the fields of infrared, optics and solar physics. The OPTICON project which is coordinated by the University of Cambridge and financed by the European Commission, has the objective of

The main objective of the program is to generate a team of engineers with a high technical training oriented to development of advanced technological products that impact on the market and in a possible commercial exploitation in different sectors of scientific instrumentation. All this through the hiring of postgraduates, both seniors and juniors

Contract Ramón y Cajal to develop his research work in the specific research project "Heavily Dust Obscured Star Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe"

Gravitational lenses are a powerful tool for Astrophysics and Cosmology. We will combine the experience of our group in theory and observation of gravitational lenses with the aim to reach the following goals: (i) estimate the dark matter content of the Universe and discuss the dark energy models from the study of lens galaxy peculiar velocities;