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Candidate Yajuan Duan defended the thesis on March 13, 2024. The thesis, co-supervised by Drs. Jichao Qiao (Northwestern Polythecnic University, Xi'an) and Eloi Pineda (UPC), shows how the structural dynamics and atomic mobility of metallic materials with non-crystalline structure evolves during thermal and mechanical treatments. This study allows improving the pre-processing of these materials to modify and improve their mechanical properties.

S. Mohammad Mirmazloumi defended his thesis co-supervised by Michele Crosetto and Oriol Monserrat on January 30, 2024 at the Baix Llobregat Campus in the Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia (CTTC). The thesis is entitled "Advanced Modeling of InSAR Time Series for Ground Displacement Hazard Assessment".

A study carried out by Jordi Mazón and David Pino from the Department of Physics together with Lluís Bassaganya, Jordi Mercader and Jordi Moré asks what kind of weather the republican exiles suffered in the Camprodon valley.

Pau Mir Garcia defended his thesis co-supervised by Eva Miranda on January 16 at the FME. Entitled "Singularities and symmetries on the crossroads of geometry and physics", the thesis presents the study of several mathematical objects that are essential for formulating and modeling physical systems. Through tools provided by differential geometry, this thesis develops and analyzes different mathematical structures that are used in three physical contexts: dissipative dynamics, integrable systems and geometric quantization. To do this, we mainly use the framework of b-symplectic geometry, a natural extension of symplectic geometry especially suitable for bounded manifolds, based on the concept of differential b-forms.

An international consortium of universities, hospitals and companies, led by the UPC, is developing new technologies based on photonics and artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis of various diseases.

Mingyue Yuan defended his thesis directed by Trinitat Pradell Cara on 17th of November at Campus Diagonal Besos. Entitled "Historical copper and iron colored glazes and glasses", the thesis presents an understanding of the mechanisms of coloring and compositional differences in historical enamels and glasses, and offers valuable information on ancient glassmaking technologies.

Quasiparticles are an essential tool to describe the complex processes arising from strong interactions in solids. These quasiparticles can be simulated and accurately studied in a radically different system, i.e., an ultracold quantum gas. Now scientists have been able to observe in an actual experiment how quasiparticles called Fermi polarons interact with each other. Their findings have been published in Nature Physics.