Garcia Palau, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-05-12)
In this thesis we have presented a new method to search for tidal streams generated by globular clusters in the Gaia catalogue. This statistical method is based on the maximum likelihood technique to ...
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 ...
Ramos, Pau (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)
The Gaia mission and its extensive catalogue of stars has marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Galactic dynamics. We have now access to the kinematics of more than a billion stars with ...
Pérez Salinas, Adrián (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Quantum computing is an emergent technology with prospects to solve problems nowadays intractable. For this purpose it is a requirement to build computers capable to store and control quantum ...
Benito Altamirano, Ismael (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)
Color-based sensor devices often offer qualitative solutions, where a material change its color from one color to another, and this is change is observed by a user who performs a manual reading. These ...
Hortelão, Ana Cãndida (Date of defense: 2021-09-03)
The advancements in nanotechnology enabled the development of new diagnostic tools and drug delivery systems based on nanosystems, which offer unique features such as large surface area to volume ratio, ...
Sánchez Gonzalo, David (Date of defense: 2021-04-15)
Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET) scanners demand fast and efficient photo-sensors and scintillators coupled to fast readout electronics. Nowadays, there are two main configurations ...
Biset Peiró, Martí (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
One of the most serious challenges facing society is the need to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), mainly caused by the widespread use of fossil fuels. The energy ...
Rodríguez Domínguez, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
A Metal-insulator transition (MIT) is the ability of some materials to change between metal and insulator electric behaviours as a function of some external stimuli such as temperature, stress, voltage, ...
Plana Ruiz, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)
The application of electron diffraction to crystallographically characterize all kinds of materials has experienced new developments that have attracted some attention in recent years. A large number ...