Rissone, Paolo (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
[eng] This doctoral work investigates nucleic acids' thermodynamic and kinetic properties. The main objective is the characterization of the energetics and the folding mechanisms driving the hybridization ...
Coronas Serna, Luis Enrique (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
[eng] This thesis develops, validates, and explores applications of the Franzese-Stanley (FS) coarse-grained model for bulk water, ultimately intended to represent the solvent in large-scale simulations ...
Amato, Roberta (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
The topics dealt with in this thesis are all part of the general problem of social consensus, namely how a convention flourish and decay and what motivates people to conform to it. Examples range from ...
Katuri, Jaideep (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
Living organisms and systems are continually converting energy, either internally stored or transduced from their surroundings, into motion. This activity and the resulting self-propulsion constantly ...
Hernández Navarro, Lluís (Date of defense: 2018-05-08)
Spatial embedding and inherited metric constraints are a fundamental trait of biological neuronal circuits. However their role in shaping connectivity and dynamics has been often disregarded, with models ...
Navarro Argemí, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
The goal of this thesis is studying hydrodynamic effects on active colloidal suspensions. Hydrodynamic interaction is propagated through the fluid in which the colloids displace due to the flow they ...
Dal Cengio, Sara (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Most systems in Nature manifest complex transport phenomena arising from the interplay of multiple time and length scales, be them intrinsic in the system’s dynamics or externally enforced. It is the ...
Gironella Torrent, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
In this thesis, we employ noise-correlation force spectroscopy measurements using LOT to extract valuable information about the passive and active fluctuations of DNA molecules and red blood cells. We ...
García Pérez, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Complex networks are mathematical representations of the interaction patterns of complex systems. During the last 20 years of Network Science, it has been recognized that networks from utterly different ...
Rosell Tarragó, Gemma (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)
Most of the real-world complex systems are best described as complex networks and can be mathematically described as oscillatory systems, coupled with the neighbours through the connections of the ...