CiQUS was formally created on February 10th 2010 by the Governing Council of the University of Santiago de Compostela
and started its activity in February 2011. CiQUS was the first member of a network of singular research centers with a new model of
scientific organization, which constitutes one of the R&D strategic axes of the CAMPUS VIDA project (Campus of International Excellence, MEC-MICINN, 2009, 2011).