Recent Submissions

Evolutionary genomics of gorillas: from ghost introgession to recent dispersal 

Pawar, Harvinder (Date of defense: 2024-09-26)

Population genetics addresses evolutionary change in populations through time. Here we take a multifaceted approach to uncover the evolutionary history of gorillas. Firstly, we modelled the demographic history of gorillas ...

Investigating protein functions of understudied genes, proteoforms and novel localisations 

Kourtis, Savvas (Date of defense: 2024-09-23)

The eukaryotic protein landscape, although extensively studied, still harbors a vast array of uncharacterized functional proteoforms that limit our understanding of biological processes. This thesis explores three aspects: ...

Design and implementation of a next-generation sequencing test for the fast and cost-effective SARS-CoV-2 differantial diagnosis and variant detection 

Montero Vale, María Mercedes (Date of defense: 2024-09-13)

In the beginning of 2020 the WHO declared a pandemic that was initiated by the outbreak of a new virus named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that quickly spread globally, challenging our ...

Imagen de la infancia en la prensa española durante el procés catalán investigación sobre el tratamiento informativo desde el análisis de contenido y la ética periodística 

Suárez, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)

Esta investigación estudia la forma en la que los diarios españoles El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Razón, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, El Punt Avui y el diario Ara representaron la imagen de los menores de edad durante un ...

Striking a balance global impact of the local regulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance in cortical networks 

Páscoa dos Santos, Francisco (Date of defense: 2024-09-06)

The study of complex systems has unraveled the basic principles underlying the emergence of collective behaviors in networks of interacting units. Following this framework, we suggest that excitatory-inhibitory balance ...

Reuniting labour and nature: ecological regulation and organising for the effective protection and enforcement of labour rights 

Uncular, Selen (Date of defense: 2024-05-27)

Although nature and labour are two inseparable aspects of life, their artificial separation led to the current era of multiple crises with violations of labour rights at the highest level around the world. As such, fundamental ...

Fundamentos empíricos para el diseño de una plataforma de retroalimentación semiautomatizada de la sección resultados de los tfg de ingeniería informática 

Lillo-Fuentes, Fernando (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)

La evaluación mediada por ordenadores se ha desarrollado como un campo interdisciplinario que permite evaluar, retroalimentar y puntuar los escritos de los estudiantes (Eid y Wanas, 2017; Vajjala; 2018). En el ámbito ...

Modelo semántico y computacional para análisis del conflicto armado en Colombia 

Tangarife Patiño, Ana María (Date of defense: 2024-07-17)

La disponibilidad de herramientas conceptuales para la descripción y la extracción en un determinado dominio de conocimiento es fundamental para garantizar el acceso a la información. En contextos de conflictos armados ...

The Politics of EU-China economic relations: Normative and regulatory disputes in the reconfiguration of global economic governance 

Comerma, Laia (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

China and the European Union have a longstanding relationship even if a complex one that is of major importance for the state and evolution of the regime of global economic governance. This thesis aims to fill the gap ...

Regulatory Governance of Higher Education quality in Paraguay: Exploring ANEAES and its Instruments for enhancing higher education quality in Paraguay 

Gomez Valdez, Shirley (Date of defense: 2024-06-17)

This thesis analyses the regulatory governance of higher education in the field of external quality assessment and accreditation. To do this, I developed a case study focussing on Paraguay and studying the National Agency ...

Essays on Market Power 

Deb, Shubhdeep (Date of defense: 2024-06-27)

This thesis consists of three chapters that explore how firm’s behaviour impacts worker outcomes, focusing specifically on the implications of market power on entrepreneurship, wages and inequality. The first chapter ...

Essays in International Macro-Finance and Banking 

Bohórquez, Diego (Date of defense: 2024-06-26)

This thesis examines the impact of various policy interventions in open economies aimed at mitigating disruptions in the financial sector and their effects on the broader economy. In the first chapter, I provide a stylized ...

Essays in Econometric Forecasting with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance 

Crespo Rey, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2024-06-21)

This thesis comprises three chapters on econometric forecasting, with applications to macroeconomics and finance. The first chapter introduces a testing procedure for evaluating superior predictive ability (SPA) in ...

Essays on the Macroeconomics of Long-Term Relationships 

Esala, Lauri (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis consists of three chapters on theoretical macroeconomics, each one examining the consequences of long-term relationships between economic agents. In the first chapter, the relationships in question are ...

Economic Behavior and Personality Traits 

Spantidaki-Kyriazi, Eva (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis comprises three chapters focusing on economic behavior and personality traits. In the first chapter, I investigate experimentally how subjects choose their partners and how they play depending on their ...

Essays in Macro-Finance 

Sargsyan, Hayk (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis addresses important macro-financial questions and deliberates on policies in response to market inefficiencies. The first chapter explores the impact of debt renegotiations in credit markets in the presence ...

Essays in Macroeconometrics 

Huang, Jiaming (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)

The thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconometric analysis with heterogeneity. Chapter 1 introduces an efficient data-driven clustering methodology for grouping heterogeneous responses within the local projection-IV ...

Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics and Finance 

Cenzon, Josefina (Date of defense: 2024-06-05)

This thesis explores how personal experiences influence individuals’ beliefs about the macroeconomy and their economic decisions. Chapter 1 uses US household survey data to show that personally experiencing a rejection ...

Medical nanotechnology applications in regulatory science: strategic policy development for the regulatory assessment of nanotechnology-enabled health products 

Rodríguez Gómez, Francisco Diego (Date of defense: 2024-07-22)

Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize healthcare, but complex regulations slow its market introduction. This thesis examines the gap between nanomedicine research and its commercialization, addressing the 'valley of ...

A 3D multi-modal approach to study neuronal differentiation and tissue growth in the zebrafish hindbrain 

Blanc, Matthias (Date of defense: 2024-07-19)

The process by which the diversity of neurons making up the brain are produced relies on precise adjustments across space and time. Proneural genes are main drivers of neurogenesis across the different areas of the brain ...