PHOEBO group studies biophysical models in order to explain the main characteristics of the ultraweak luminescence from biological systems and tries to experimentally verify the existence or not of cellular communication of non-chemical type.

The group is also involved in the study of the interaction between electromagnetic field and biological material with special attention to the possibility to induce collective excitations able to carry energy and information along the biological structures. 

The group provided state-of-the-art single photon counting instrumentation in studies of low level luminescence, from the point of view of both the basis research and the research applied to agriculture, ecology and medicine.