Verdeny Vilanova, Ione (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)
Intracellular transport plays an essential role in a wide variety of fundamental cellular processes required to maintain the internal regulation and organization of cells. Different types of cargos such ...
Venturini, Chiara (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Integrin-based cell adhesion is a key mechanism in fundamental biological processes such as cell migration and wound healing, and in diseases like osteoporosis and cancer. For example, during migration, ...
Santamaria Navarro, Àngel (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
The ability to fly has greatly expanded the possibilities for robots to perform surveillance, inspection or map generation tasks. Yet it was only in recent years that research in aerial robotics was ...
González Juncà, Arnau (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
In the current energy conjunction, with an expected growth of energy consumption in a context of fossil fuel depletion, more focus is being placed on renewable energy sources (RES) for electricity ...
Bělohlav, Vojtěch (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
Due to the large volume of the processed medium in pilot or industrial cultivation systems, it is difficult to illuminate the entire layer of the culture medium, which results in the formation of dark ...
Alvarado Bueno, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-04-23)
Risk associated with landslides of natural or man-made origin depends on the prediction of the post-failure behaviour of the mobilized mass. Numerical models capable of integrating the landslide geometry ...
Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)
Genomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits ...
Seri, Alessando (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
Quantum memories (QMs) for light represent a fundamental ingredient for the development of a quantum internet. Among other applications, they are a building block for the distribution of entanglement ...
Tovar Vargas, Daniela (Date of defense: 2021-07-20)
In recent years, zirconia ceramics have been used in many applications. Some of them include tool forming due to its high strength and fracture toughness, thermal barrier coatings on turbines engines ...
Barcelona Cabeza, Rosa (Date of defense: 2021-10-19)
Substantial technological advancements in next generation sequencing (NGS) have revolutionized the genomic field. Over the last years, the speed and throughput of NGS technologies have increased while ...