Casellas Masana, Enric (Date of defense: 2022-05-20)
Precipitation phase discrimination at ground level constitutes a fundamental variable in many meteorological and hydrological applications, including avalanche hazards, winter road safety, and flooding ...
Lage Rodrigues, Luis Ricardo (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
Current technology allows the proliferation of multiple forecast systems developed by different research institutions from all over the world. However, most decision makers need a reliable probabilistic ...
Gadea, Gerard (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Silicon and silicon-germanium nanostructures were grown, integrated, optimized and characterized for their application in thermoelectric generation. Specifically two kinds of nanostructures were worked: ...
Illa Subiña, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
Nuclei make up the majority of the visible matter in the Universe; obtaining a first principles description of the nuclear properties and interactions between nuclei directly from the underlying theory ...
Llabrés Brustenga, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
Intensity - Duration - Frequency (IDF) relationships of extreme precipitation events are of high interest in hydrology. The building of infrastructure or designation of flood zone need, as groundwork, ...
Statuto, Nahuel (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
The goal of this thesis is to explore and control the magnetization dynamics on magnetic multilayered thin films through two different techniques: the application of strain and spin- polarized currents, ...
Montaña Faiget, Glòria (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)
For many decades after the conception of the quark model in 1964, and the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) a few years later as the theory governing the strong interaction between quarks and ...
Ramon Gamon, Jaume (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
Multiple initiatives are being implemented to mitigate and, in the worst-case scenarios, adapt society to climate change. The vast majority consider renewable energies key to accomplishing a necessary ...
Hoffmann, Martin W. G. (Date of defense: 2015-01-19)
Les tecnologies de sensors de gas basades en semiconductors presenten limitacions importants de selectivitat i consum d'energia. Per tant, esdevé necessari l’assaig de nous conceptes de dispositius ...
Sanchez Garitaonandia, Mikel (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
Cosmological thermal first-order phase transitions are assumed to proceed via the nucleation of bubbles and subsequent expansion and collision. The out-of-equilibrium physics involved during the collision ...