So, David (Date of defense: 2016-10-19)
The ubiquity of solar energy conversion technology is an exciting target which we aspire for in this century. Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells are an attractive platform, being low-cost and ...
Antepara Zambrano, Oscar Luis (Date of defense: 2019-01-10)
The main objective of this thesis is the development of an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm for computational fluid dynamics simulations using hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. This numerical ...
Barardi, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
The brain is a complex multiscale dynamical system made of neurons, connected with each other by synapses. Neurons are multidimensional nonlinear systems able to exhibit dynamical activities at different ...
Mohammed, Ali Jasim (Date of defense: 2018-10-03)
The occurrence of heat waves and cold spells has received special attention in recent years due to their impact on human health, ecosystems and economy. In the context of climate change, there is evidence ...
Al-Nassar, Ali Raheem Tuaimah (Date of defense: 2018-09-25)
Precipitation is one of the most important, and also difficult to predict, elements of climate. This difficulty is associated with the transport of moisture through weather fronts that change their ...
Kumar, Nikhil P. (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Recent advancement in Photonics have brought about a new era of miniaturisation. Along came a need for technology to allow the manipulation of light at the micrometer scale, with precise control over ...
Ruiz, Guadalupe Natalia (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Glassy phases play an important role in our daily life and in many industries such as the food, pharmaceutical, and construction and are responsible for certain vital mechanisms in living species. Whereas ...
AboliGhasemabadi, Mitra (Date of defense: 2019-07-10)
Waste treatment is an important aspect of an industry. Organic dyes are used in many fields, such as textile, paper or food. Residual dye compounds from these industries are one of the most critical ...
Burgos Fernandez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
Goniochromatic pigments, such as automotive coatings, are known by their appearance changes - especially of colour and visual texture - as a function of the angles of illumination and observation; they ...
Passaro, Elsa (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
Quantum information science is a rapidly evolving field both from the theoretical and the experimental viewpoint, motivated by the fact that protocols exploiting quantum resources can perform tasks that ...