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Research focus
Nature Materials volume 22, pages1409–1420 (2023). The cell skeleton (cytoskeleton) is formed by multiple filaments of different mechanical properties, creating a dense mesh with diverse and complex responses. These cytoskeleton …
(DMAT, IMTech) A qubit is a two-state quantum-mechanical system. For example, the intrinsic angular momentum (spin) of an electron is such a system. It only takes two values when measured …
PhD highlights
Waleed Mirza defended his PhD thesis A theoretical and computational study of the active self-organization of nematic patterns in thin cytoskeletal layers and their effect on curvature, supervised by Marino …
Joaquim Brugués defended his PhD thesis Floer homology for b-symplectic manifolds, supervised by Eva Miranda and Sonja Hohloch on 20th of March 2024 within the UPC doctoral program in Applied Mathematics …
Ashutosh Bijalwan defended his PhD thesis Numerical optimisation of worm locomotion on frictional substrates, supervised by José J. Muñoz on 18th July 2024 within the UPC doctoral program in Applied …
Outreach
Jezabel Curbelo (DMAT, IMTech) Reprinted with permission from El País (international edition), published on December 25, 2023, in the “Café y Teoremas” series. In 1923 Stability of a viscous liquid …
Pablo Sáez (LaCàN, IMTech) Cells engage in continuous interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This connection between cells and the ECM is responsible for various cellular and tissue responses, including …
Agustín Moreno (Heidelberg University, Germany) Introduction The three-body problem is the dynamical system corresponding to three masses under gravitational interaction, as described by Newton’s law. It is one of those …