The services offered by IU-RESCAT are structured based on the research and transfer lines of IU-RESCAT but have a marked interdisciplinary character.
Basic Climate Science
- Climate indicators and analysis of climate data.
- Training services for meteorological centers.
- Training services for educational centers.
- Development of drought plans.
Environmental and Climate Economics: Territorial Analysis
- Traffic management to reduce congestion.
- Development of sustainability indicators.
- Design of environmental and climate emergency policies.
- Design of mobility policies.
- Design of policies for the protection of rural and coastal areas.
- Land use planning: territorial planning and zoning of economic and social activities.
Governance, Environmental and Energy Transition Law, Environmental and Climate Justice
- Design and implementation of environmental public policies.
- Training services for environmental management professionals.
- Advisory services to NGOs on environmental matters.
- Advisory services on human rights in the environmental field.
- Community services through the Environmental Law Clinic.
Technological Solutions, Development of Monitoring Systems, and Environmental Analysis
- Analysis of air quality and its impacts on health (atmospheric pollution sensors).
- Analysis of contaminants in food and health risks.
- Analysis of contaminants in aquifers (microfluidic sensors).
- Analysis of contaminants in treatment plants and wastewater.
- Analysis of radioisotopes in different environmental compartments.
- Analysis of light pollution.
- Analysis of noise pollution.
- Raindrop size sensors.
- Ice formation sensors.
- Miniaturized hydrogen sensors.
- Light source and photocatalyst doping services.
- Wireless gas detection networks.
- Solid-state gas sensors for target gases.
- H2 production from various processes (photocatalysis, organic waste, dark fermentation biomass, catalytic reforming biomass, bioplastics, and plastic waste).
- Decarbonization solutions for industries and cities.
- Optimized energy solutions based on renewable energies.Solutions for energy conversion techniques and cooling equipment.
- Training services on the use and application of new energy conversion technologies.
- Development of microcontroller-based electronics for driving, data logging, and communications.
- Data processing in multi-sensor systems.
Health Risks, Human Behavior Analysis, Impacts of Pollution on People and Ecosystems
- Modeling of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of contaminants in the human body (PBPK models).
- Evaluation of the toxicity mechanisms of contaminants (PBPK/PD models).
- Assessment of the eco-toxicity of environmental contaminants.
- Determination and characterization of microplastics in environmental and biological samples from industrial processes.
- Epidemiological studies services.
- Advisory services in psychological evaluation and emotional state.
- Analysis of bacterial and fungal diversity in environmental substrates (water, air, soil), clinical samples, or in food.
- Microbiological control of water quality (bacteria and fungi analysis).
- Analysis of microbial communities in forest and agricultural soils under extreme conditions resulting from climate change.
- Genomic analysis of bacteria and fungi with impact on public health.
- In vitro/in vivo assessment of pathogenesis and immune response against bacterial and fungal species.