Ortiz Castillo, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
Complex systems, which involve a massive ammount of components interacting in nontrivial ways and exhibi- ting properties such as emergence, feedback-loops and self-organization, permeate our world to ...
Manzano Muñoz, Albert (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
[eng] Personalized medicine has emerged to improve cancer treatment beyond classical approaches. The identification of genetic mutations by molecular analyses dominate personalized medicine initiatives ...
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 ...
Fernández Garibay, Xiomara Gislen (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
The skeletal muscle is the largest tissue of the human body. Its main function is to generate contractile forces, essential for locomotion, thermogenesis, and metabolism. Fundamental research on skeletal ...
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 ...
Clua Ferré, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
[eng] Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is known to be associated with the immune-mediated destruction of insulin-secreting β-cells. Cell replacement therapy is thought to be a potential long-lasting cure ...
Sopeña i Martínez, Pol (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Printed electronics appeared in the 1980s as a cost-effective alternative to silicon-based electronics. Employing the techniques from the graphics industry, such as rotogravure or screen printing, it ...
Fornabaio, Giulia (Date of defense: 2023-04-14)
[eng] Living tissues are active materials with the ability to undergo drastic shape and dimension transitions. If properly controlled, these morphological changes allow various physiological phenomena ...
Álvarez-Carulla, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices ...
Glinkowska Mares, Adrianna (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
Two decades ago, microfluidic technology begun to make its appearance in the fields of drug delivery and biomedical engineering to irrevocably revolutionize them. It was quickly realized how microchannels ...