Viladegut Farran, Alan (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
Space re-entry is a challenging endeavor due to the harsh thermo-chemical environment around the vehicle. Heat flux being the reference parameter for Thermal Protection System (TPS) design, the total ...
Kuffer, Dominik (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
In the last decade, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted attention both in the nascent field of flexible nanotechnology as well as in more conventional semiconductor technol-ogies. Within the ...
Silini, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)
To advance time series forecasting we need to progress on multiple fronts. In this thesis, we develop algorithms to identify causal relations which allow to identify the driving processes containing ...
Ahmed, Waqas Waseem (Date of defense: 2018-04-17)
The quest for new artificial structures and materials uncovers novel new light-matter interactions, and intriguing physical phenomena. Since the late 80’s purely dielectric materials have been structured, ...
Malagarriga i Guasch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
The aim of this thesis is to deepen into the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the generation of complex and stochastic dynamics, as well as emerging phenomena, in the human brain. We study ...
Lampo, Aniello (Date of defense: 2018-10-02)
Quantum Brownian motion represents a paradigmatic model of open quantum system, namely a system which cannot be treated as an isolated one, because of the unavoidable interaction with the surrounding ...
O'Donnell, Callum Francis (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
High-repetition-rate femtosecond laser sources are essential laboratory tools for spectroscopy, microscopy, amongst other applications. With the relative length of one femtosecond to one second being ...
Masoliver Vila, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-02-20)
Sensory neurons use sequences of electrical pulses (known as action potentials or spikes) to encode and transmit information of external temporal stimuli. Neural coding is the research field that studies ...
Medina Pardell, Judith (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The invention of the laser triggered the study of light-matter interactions. In turn, the advent of artificial structured materials on micro- and nanometer scales has become a fruitful playground to ...
Moreno Mencía, David (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
In the last decades, quantum materials have received much attention in the field of condensed matter physics due, in part, to their exotic properties. These are difficult to understand as they result ...