The Instituto de Física de Cantabria - IFCA- is a research center belonging to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the Cantabria University (UC).
Presently the IFCA staff is composed of about 100 people, including researchers, administration, technical staff, postdocs and students.

Research lines:

• Galaxies and AGNs
• Observational Cosmology and Instrumentation
• Particle Physics and Instrumentation
• Advanced Computing
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Meteorology and Data Mining