Casanellas Vilageliu, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Wormlike micelles are viscoelastic fluids that present an intermediate behavior between solids and ordinary liquids since they are elastic at short time scales but flow easily at large time scales. In ...
Vilella Figueras, Eva (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The next generation of particle colliders will be characterized by linear lepton colliders, where the collisions between electrons and positrons will allow to study in great detail the new particle ...
Montornès Torrecillas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)
The radiative transfer cannot be explicitly resolved in the atmospheric models for two reasons: i) a full treatment of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) requires a high amount of computational ...
Malgaretti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)
In this thesis we characterize the behavior of molecular motors when the properties of the cytoplasm they displace through are not homogeneous or isotropic. Anisotropies in the cytoplasm can be induced, ...
Galán Cascales, Teresa (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)
This thesis aims at providing a better understanding of the micro- and nanofabrication of conducting polymers for biomedical devices and presents novel processes that widen the application range of ...
Weber, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-06-06)
Stochastic fluctuations, or noise, are ubiquitous in biological systems and play an important role in many cellular processes. Experimental evidences have shown that noise affects the reliability of ...
Gómez Orlandi, Javier (Date of defense: 2015-09-09)
In this thesis we apply a multidisciplinary approach, based on statistical physics and complex systems, to the study of neuronal dynamics. We focus on understanding, using theoretical and computational ...
Villuendas Pellicero, Diego (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The goal of this work is to investigate the magnetic deflagration phenomena in two very different magnetic systems, using two very different experimental techniques. In the first chapter of this ...
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 ...
Di Dato, Adriana (Date of defense: 2015-11-12)
In this thesis we have made progress on the study of higher dimensional gravity by focusing on the properties of black holes and branes and their dynamics. We have developed two main projects: • provide ...