Constitución científica

Institutional Nature

The Centro Rausenbach de Análisis e Investigación (CRAI) is an independent institute dedicated to the study of the evolutionary interdependence between human biology and the environment. Its research is grounded in the understanding of this relationship as a biological and regulatory interdependence shaped through coevolutionary processes, in which organic disposition and ecological context have mutually configured one another.
The CRAI examines how biological systems emerge, stabilise, or lose equilibrium under changing ecological and social conditions. To this end, it integrates biological, ecological, and regulatory perspectives within a coherent scientific framework aimed at elucidating the mechanisms that sustain diversity, adaptation, and resilience in complex living systems.

Our conceptual foundation

The starting point of the CRAI is the recognition that biological disposition and environmental context cannot be understood in isolation. The human organism is the result of prolonged interactions with climatic conditions, nutritional patterns, microbial ecosystems, and biochemical signals present in its environment.
Stability, adaptability, and resilience are not exclusively internal properties, but rather expressions of regulatory systems shaped through interaction with their ecological context. From this perspective, biological diversity, including distinct neurobiological profiles, is understood as part of an adaptive spectrum that is sensitive to environmental conditions.
This conceptual framework does not constitute a metaphor, but rather a structural hypothesis that guides the scientific research of the CRAI.

Our scientific orientation

The research conducted at the CRAI integrates evolutionary biology, neurobiology, ecology, and plant sciences within a regulatory framework of complex systems. Particular attention is given to interfaces where the environment modulates conserved biological processes, including interactions with plant matrices understood as complex regulatory systems rather than isolated compounds.
The objective is to clarify the mechanisms through which diversity, regulation, and stability emerge and transform under changing conditions.

Institutional framework

The CRAI maintains a stable, long-term conceptual structure while remaining open to the integration of new scientific advances. Research is understood as a rigorous and cumulative analytical process, rather than a pursuit of rapid solutions or normative claims.
In a context of accelerated ecological and social transformation, the CRAI seeks to contribute to a more precise understanding of how biological systems interact with their environment and how they can be sustained responsibly within it.

Foundational documents

Constitución Científica del CRAI (v.1.2)

Strategic Framework 2026–2030