Balakishan, Harishankar (Date of defense: 2021-05-12)
The ability to characterize the elements beneath the surface has been a dire necessity in the fields of materials science, polymer technology, biology, and medical sciences. Scanning Probe Microscopies ...
Trindade, Ana Filipa Mestre (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] Heat, moisture, gas, and momentum exchanges at the oceanic and atmospheric interface modulate, inter alia, the Earth’s heat and carbon budgets, global circulation, and dynamical modes. Sea surface ...
Martínez Montoya, Jairo Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
This thesis is devoted to the study of radiation in generic conformal field theories in four dimensions. In the first part of the thesis we explain at the classical level the implications of ...
Morera Navarro, Ivan (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
[eng] In this Thesis we explore exotic phases of matter which arise when different mechanisms compete and favor different ground state configurations. We focus on two classes of low dimensional lattice ...
Rosell Puig, M. Àngela (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)
[cat] Aquesta tesi, relacionada amb el projecte ATMOUNT (Análisis de las interacciones atmósfera-superficie en zonas de montaña y el conocimiento de los impactos del cambio global), i més concretament ...
del Moral Méndez, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Natural disasters of hydro-meteorological origin are the biggest risk worldwide. In Catalonia (NE of the Iberian Peninsula), severe weather and flash floods occur each year, resulting in major damage ...
Gilabert Mestre, Joan (Date of defense: 2021-05-15)
Las tendencias de los episodios de temperaturas extremas en las ciudades están aumentando (en frecuencia, magnitud y duración) debido al cambio climático en interacción con el efecto urbano. Otro factor ...
Andrade Arvizu, Jacob Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)
The main subject of this work focuses on the development of advanced technological strategies for bandgap profile engineering on Earth-abundant and eco-friendly kesterite thin film solar cells which ...
Lledó Ponsatí, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2020-12-09)
In order to mitigate the climate change effects, the world is undergoing an energy transition from polluting sources towards renewable energies. This transition is turning the electricity system more ...
Hoffmann Salvaña, Xavier Roderic (Date of defense: 2021-09-21)
Epidemic modeling has proven to be an essential framework for the study of contagion phenomena in biological, social, and technical systems. Albeit epidemic models have evolved into powerful predictive ...