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Research focus
Inmaculada Baldomá Barraca (DMAT, CRM) In a wide range of physical, chemical, and biological systems modelling the interaction among different species, the dynamics of each species is usually governed by …
Gissell Estrada-Rodríguez (DMAT, CRM) Mathematical modelling of biological, physical, and social phenomena using partial differential equations (PDEs) to describe the average behaviour of underlying microscopic (individual-level) dynamics has received significant …
Geometric Mechanics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2025), 337–383. Sebastià Xambó (DMAT) This work is dedicated to the memory of Miguel Carlos Muñoz Lecanda (MCML) (1946-2023), who was a Full Professor …
Josep Masdemont (DMAT, IMTech) The collinear equilibrium points of the Restricted Three-Body Problem (RTBP) were first described by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in the 18th century. The foundational understanding …
PhD highlights
José Lamas Rodríguez submitted his PhD thesis Oscillatory motions, parabolic orbits and collision orbits in the planar circular restricted three-body problem, supervised by Marcel Guàrdia Munárriz and Tere M-Seara Alonso …
Rafel Perelló i Ribas submitted his PhD thesis Data assimilation for real-time dynamic prediction of wind-induced forces in vehicle platooning, supervised by Antonio Huerta and Sergio Zlotnik at the Universitat …
Pradeep Kumar Bal submitted his PhD thesis Mathematical and computational modeling of the active mechanics of multicellular systems: from cell–cell adhesion to epithelial reshaping, supervised by Marino Arroyo at the …
Sergi Pérez submitted his PhD thesis Finite Element computational modeling of flexoelectricity and flexo-photovoltaics, supervised by Sonia Fernández and Irene Arias at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (July 2025). He …
Outreach
Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder (PDEs Group, IMTech) Column sorption is a practical and widely used method for removing contaminants from carrier fluids and has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The process …
David Codony (LaCàN Group, IMTech) The flexoelectric effect. In the world of smart materials, electromechanical transduction —the ability to convert mechanical force into electricity and vice versa— is ubiquitous, and …