The ultimate goal is to unravel various aspects of complexity, promote basic science and assess the impact of applied research and possible benefits for society.
BIFI also fosters an open and innovative scientific culture and the development of a wide network of collaborations with prestigious institutions at national and international levels.
The science of the 21st century has a strong multidisciplinary character and the analysis of complex systems based on the holistic principle that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" is the essence and the starting point of the institute's research.
Finally, the Aragon Supercomputing Center CESAR has been recently opened, which adds state-of-the-art computing facilities to provide service to many end-users in the autonomous region.
Through the simulation of increasingly realistic scenarios, important conclusions on how individuals behave when dealing with certain social dilemmas like climate change are also drawn.