'Thermal Properties of Materials' is a consolidated research group recognised by the Government of Aragon. The group belongs to the Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (ICMA), which is a joint institute between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Zaragoza (UZ).

The group is composed of a CSIC researcher (Group Leader), three teachers of the University of Zaragoza, three PhD. students and two technicians. The institute ICMA is located in two centres (Faculty of Sciences and School of Engineering and Architecture of the UZ) and also the group of Thermal Properties of Materials is formed by people and facilities from both centres.

Within ICMA, the group is included in the reasearch line of 'Magnetic Materials', in the subline of 'Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Molecular and Multifunctional Materials'. This subline pursues the elaboration, characterisation and physical studies of molecular magnetic materials and other multifunctional materials such as materials with giant magnetocaloric or magnetothermal effects, or of interest for energy applications, as well as for other industrial or biomedical applications.

Also, as a result of the originality of the materials involved in terms of physical properties, the activity of the group includes, besides conventional laboratory physical techniques, the use and development of non-conventional instrumentation, such as calorimetry of photo-induced exited states or adiabatic setups for magnetocaloric and magnetothermal effects.