Beside the Director of the Institute, the Staff encompasses 103 units: 28 tenured researchers; 17 fixed-term contract researchers, 17 tenured technical and administrative officers, 32 officers (such as assistants, research fellows, graduate and PhD students), and 9 associate professors and senior fellows. Considering the relevance of interdisciplinary research, the Staff comes from different disciplinary sectors, such as engineer, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.