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Max Casamor defends his thesis on the safety analysis for nuclear reactors.

Max Casamor defended his thesis co-supervised by professors Jordi Freixa and Francesc Reventós on October 10 at the Escola Técnica Superior d'Engineria Industrial de Barcelona. Entitled "Evaluation of TH Multi-Scale Coupling Methods in BEPU Analysis", the thesis presents the application of advanced methodologies in safety analysis for nuclear reactors.

Manuel Mateos Villar defends his doctoral thesis on the prediction of aircraft trajectories in the pre-tactical phase using machine learning techniques

Manuel Mateos Villar defended his doctoral thesis, with industrial doctorate mention, co-supervised by Xavier Prats (UPC) and Oliva Garcia (Nommon Solutions and Technologies), entitled "Machine Learning for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction: a Solution for Pre-tactical Air Traffic Flow Management". The thesis presents a solution for traffic prediction in the pre-tactical phase that improves the predictive exercise of the current tool (PREDICT) and is able to deal with the entire set of flights in the ECAC network in a way computationally efficient. To do this, different trajectory prediction approaches based on machine learning models trained on historical data have been explored.

Innovative methods for selectively fragmenting molecules with laser X-rays are proposed

Carles Serrat Jurado, a professor in the Department of Physics at the UPC, has demonstrated in research that the interior of a molecule can be modified locally and selectively by applying hard X-ray lasers. The work has been published in the reference scientific journal 'The Journal of Physical Chemistry'

Leonardo Dalla Porta defends his thesis on computational modelling of brain activity

Leonardo Dalla Porta defended his thesis directed by Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, and co-directed by Alain Destexhe a Professor Paris-Saclay University

Vrinda Krishnakumar defended her thesis on the exploitation of the PSInSAR technique with Sentinel-1 data for the measurement of ground movements

Vrinda Krishnakumar defended her thesis directed by Dr. Oriol Monserrat on September 29. The defense was online. Entitled "Sentinel-1 data exploitation for terrain deformation monitoring", the thesis presents a series of diverse approaches to the PSInSAR technique focused on the maximum use of the characteristics of Sentinel-1 SAR satellites for the measurement of terrain movements

Martí Coma Company defends its thesis on optimization with hybrid methods

Martí Coma Company defended its thesis co-directed by Jordi Pons-Prats and Gabriel Bugeda Castelltort on July 26 at the Castelldefels Campus. Entitled "Optimization on industrial problems focusing on multi-player strategies", the thesis presents new hybrid optimization algorithms that combine evolutionary methods and gradient methods

David Arcos' thesis takes a step further in the characterization of two-dimensional materials

On Tuesday 19 July, doctoral student David Arcos Gutiérrez defended his thesis entitled Optoelectronic characterization of two-dimensional materials at high frequencies, which was co-directed by Núria Ferrer Anglada and Lluís Ametller Congost. In the thesis, non-destructive characterization methods are analyzed, applied and compared at frequencies above 1 GHz, which are used to characterize samples of 2D materials on different substrates. The optoelectronic properties of two heterostructures are also measured. (graphene / MoS2 and graphene / WS2 on molten quartz) and are compared with those of individual materials