The research architecture of the Faculty of Sciences has a complex structure, both in what regards the relationship between FCUL units and departments and the participation of many other faculties and research institutes.
Research is organised in R&D multi-departmental units, with different names: centres, laboratories and institutes. These units join researchers from different Faculty departments and also include many researchers (about 30%) from other Portuguese and international universities.
The majority of these units are part of the system of R&D centres that are funded and assessed by the FCT.
Several FCUL researchers are also part of R&D units that are associated with other faculties and institutions, although - in most cases - they carry out their research at FCUL premises. Such is the case of the units GREEN-IT, IGC, MOSTMICRO and IMM.
FCUL R&D units operate in different subject areas and are interdisciplinary in nature.
- Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation (CENTRA-Ciências)
- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE)
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C)
- Centre of Statistics and its Applications (CEAUL)
- Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC)
- Center for Mathematics, Fundamental Applications and Operations Research (CMAFcIO)
- Center for Computacional and Stochastic Mathematics (CEMAT-Ciências)
- Center of Structural Chemistry (CQE-Ciências)
- Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT)
- Computer Science and Engineering Research Centre (LASIGE)
- Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA)
- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB)
- BioSystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI)
- Institute Dom Luiz (IDL)
- Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP)