At Comillas Pontifical University, research is select and of high quality to contribute to our environment's cultural, social, economic and technological development. It is research-oriented towards innovation and social return that puts faith in interdisciplinarity. It is carried out with our resources and thanks to national and international public calls and collaboration with the business world.
Our researchers work in institutes, chairs and research groups, and we also promote research training with the International Doctoral School.

• University Institute of Spirituality
• Institute for Research in Technology (I.I.T.)
• University Institute of Family Studies
• University Institute of Studies on Migration

Comillas has always maintained a close relationship with companies and institutions, which facilitates the creation of Chairs that open up new ways of collaboration and financing for our research, transfer and innovation activities. The relationships established through our Chairs forge strategic alliances, creating a wide contact surface between Comillas and society. This allows us to quickly and efficiently identify new training needs and the challenges that fuel our lines of research.

Research groups are teams that are made up of university lecturers and researchers and trainee teaching and research staff that, working on defined lines of research, develop their research activity in a coordinated way.

The International Doctoral School is responsible for organising and managing doctoral studies at Comillas. Its main objective is coordinating the different programs, helping to stimulate interdisciplinarity and adaptation to society's demands in doctorate programs.

The Ethics Committee has the primary function of guaranteeing that the methodological, ethical and legal principles are complied with in the research carried out in any of the centers and projects at the University involving intervention in human beings. The Committee ensures respect for human dignity and its consequences in the research conducted at the Comillas Pontifical University.

Comillas Pontifical University has obtained the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) quality seal. This recognition positions it at a European level regarding quality criteria and helps attract and retain talent.