Calderón Díaz, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)
Renewable energies have a major role in today’s energy systems development, energy security and climate change fight. Thermal Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) has the potential to get up to 11.3% of ...
Ramírez Mahaluf, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)
This thesis is composed of two complementary projects. One focuses on the study of the dynamics between emotional and cognitive networks in healthy subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Farré Flaquer, Arnau (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
After an intense development of optical tweezers as a biophysical tool during the last decades, quantitative experiments in living cells have not found in this technique its best ally, due, in part, to ...
Sancho Jodar, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Enzyme catalysis has been scaled up for several industrial sectors during the last decades, including pharmaceutics, food and beverages. This raised the interest of other industries such as energy or ...
Puigdellívol Cañadell, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of neuronal dysfunction and degeneration involved in Huntington’s disease is a goal of increasing urgency for society and scientific community. In this Thesis ...
Castells-Quintana, David (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
This thesis focuses on the study of two global trends characteristic of modern economic development, namely increased agglomeration and inequalities within countries. The thesis contributes to the ...
Rodríguez-Vida Rodríguez, Alejo (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide and the fifth leading cause of cancer death in men. Despite, the above mentioned incidence and mortality, the existence of a small ...
Martín Flores, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases that progress with the death of selective neuronal subpopulations. Neuronal dysfunction and death are ...
Gómez Núñez, Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Although an extensive number of investigators, during the arise of this printed materials technology, were devoted to make very interesting discoveries concerning the most used sol-gel precursor to ...
Rodón Ahnert, Laura (Date of defense: 2012-11-28)
The TGF-β pathway is currently considered a therapeutic target in advanced tumors, including glioblastoma (GBM), and several anti-TGFβ agents are in clinical trials and have shown promising results .A ...