Administration:

The administration is the part of the Management dedicated to the administrative and financial aspects of the Institute. The Manager is D. Antonio Díaz Gómez, who also acts as Secretary of the Executive Committe of the Institute. He is assisted by D. José María Rodríguez Martín, D. Patricio Hernández Vázquez, Dª Nuria Raboso Pérez and Dª Mª Rosa de los Ríos Álvaro.

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Glass Blowing:

The person in charge of the glass blowing is D. Francisco Izquierdo Galve, who makes new designs under request by the scientific personnel and repairs the equipments already existing in the Institute. The glass blowing has a long tradition in the Institutes of Physics, Chemistry and Material Sciences of CSIC.
The workshop for glass blowing has:
1.- 80 mm Winch.
2.- Heating furnace.
3.- Diamond cutter.
4.- Emery machine.
5.- Welding with natural gas-oxígeno.

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Mechanical Shop:

Similar to Glass Blowing, the Mechanical Shop has a long tradition in the experimental institutes of CSIC in several scientific and technical areas of research: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, etc. In the mechanical shop new designs as requested by the scientific personnel are constructed, as well as the modification and repairment of existing equipment. In our Institute the person responsible for the Mechanical Shop is D. Ramón Tomé Neches.
The Mechanical Shop has, together with the conventional auxiliary means, the following equipment:

1.- Universal parallel winch.
2.- Universal milling machine.
3.- TIG welding under controlled atmosphere.

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Maintenance:

The maintenance team headed by D. José Mateo Ruiz García and in which D. Eduardo García de la Banda, D. Andrés Llorente Dueñas y D. Armando Rodríguez Martín are included, is a team esential for the "day by day" work at the Institute. They take care of new installations related to the supply of electricity, the supply of gases, painting, carpentry, elevators, ... or even gardening! They also do the regular maintenance of the different equipments and repair whatever comes out of work. It is, indeed, an essential and key support to the everyday work at the Institute.

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Library: (with web page in Spanish)

The library of the Institute, located in the second floor, is one in the (Network of Libraries of CSIC). It is a library specialised in Chemical Science and Technology, particularly in the field of chemical and biological catalysis. The library has 18 seats for reading and three locations for informatic search, from which one can have access to the CSIC literature search systems and to the data bases Current Contents and Scifinder. The personal loan of books is only available for the members of the Institute. There is an inter-library loan service with other libraries of CSIC and the Universities for books and for the supply of documents via photocopy or electronic transmission.

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Store:

Finally, we have to mention the Store, headed by Dª Paloma Brea Herrera and assisted by D. Carlos Angel Taboada Tarancón, who centralize the advise of how to make purchases of all kinds of items. They also organize and control the exisiting stocks in the Store, keeping good and updated record of the economic expenditure generated by this activity. As an auxiliary function, they control the reception and supply of liquid nitrogen and all kind of gases, as well as its canalization to the different laboratories. Together with efficiency, it is very important to have our own "stocks" of a variety of chemical compounds and minor laboratory equipment of common use.

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