Beamud Amorós, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)
This PhD Thesis presents the Tertiary kinematic evolution of the South-Central Pyrenees from the integration of magnetostratigraphic, magnetotectonic and thermochronological analyses on its synorogenic ...
Fairbrother, Andrew (Date of defense: 2014-05-07)
Thin film solar cell technologies are rapidly developing, and chalcopyrite (Cu(In,Ga)Se2) based devices have demonstrated the highest power conversion efficiencies on the laboratory scale. However, in ...
Blanco, Pablo Miguel (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
I have carried out this thesis in the Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules and Colloids research group of the University of Barcelona. In the recent years, the research group have made significant ...
Villanueva Álvarez, Laura (Date of defense: 2005-12-22)
Microbial mats are prokaryotic communities that are thought to represent the present-day analogues of the first ecosystems on Earth. Their study reveals microbial strategies for survival under a broad ...
Letelier Torres, Nicole Alejandra (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
Obesity is nowadays considered a pandemic disease, and its incidence correlates with the concomitant increase of a set of associated comorbidities, including T2D, cardiovascular diseases, fatty liver ...
Cantarero Abad, Irene (Date of defense: 2013-03-21)
The faults limiting the Barcelona Plain and the Vallès Half-graben (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Spain) have allowed the study of a complex and multiphase tectonic/fluid history from the Hercynian to ...
Morais Pinela, Ana (Date of defense: 2015-07-15)
Distinguishing population units of small cetaceans continuously distributed in a widespread area is challenging, but critical for their conservation and management. The common dolphin (genus Delphinus) ...
Rodríguez Lumbreras, Luis Ángel (Date of defense: 2023-04-18)
[eng] The study of the 3D structural details of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions is essential to understand biomolecular functions at the molecular level. Given the difficulty of the structural ...
Sánchez López, Giomar (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
The climate variability of the Iberian Peninsula (IP) can be explained in terms of relatively few large-scale atmospheric modes, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the East Atlantic (EA) and ...
Todorof, Maria Borisof (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
This work examines the prospective viability of derivatives and financial contracts more generally under a strict application of Shariah law. The author adopts a cross-disciplinary approach in order to ...