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["PROPOSALS FOR CSC GRANT STUDENTS"]
["Name ","UAB Academic Position ","Address","e-mail","Doctoral Programme","Department/Institute","Research line of the Doctoral Pr.","Topic Description Proposal related to the Research Line"]
["Salvador Ventura","Professor","Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine\nParc de Recerca UAB, Mòdul B\nUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona\nE-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)\n","salvador.ventura@uab.es","Advanced Biotechnology / Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine","Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ","Deciphering the role of alfa-synuclein strains in prion-like Parkinson induction and spreading in the brain","Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) causes highly debilitating motor symptoms but also dementia and depression, indicating involvement of several brain regions. Aggregation of alfa-synuclein (a-syn) in Lewy bodies is central to the pathogenesis of PD but its molecular bases are poorly understood. Recent research supports a prion-like mechanism for the propagation of aggregated a-syn within the nervous system. For prion diseases, the existence of different strains that propagate infectivity stably explain their phenotypic heterogeneity. Thus, our objective is assessing if the strain phenomenon accounts for differences in disease progression and pathological features in the brain of different individuals suffering synucleinopathies and explain the differential aggressiveness of a-syn mutations.Methodology: We will promote the aggregation of a-syn and its pathogenic variants in a large set of conditions to generate strains differing in their conformational features. We will address if these polymorphs can propagate their structural information both in vitro and in neuronal cells and whether they exist in the brains of PD patients exhibiting different clinical manifestations. The infective properties of these strains will be assayed upon their injection in the brain of a mouse model knockout for endogenous a-syn but over expressing human a-syn and subsequent evaluation of their tropism and pathogenic effect in specific brain areas.Expected results: The present multidisciplinary project will provide new insight into the structural determinants involved in propagation, induction and development of PD pathogenesis, opening novel avenues for development and evaluation of disease-modifying therapies that target a-syn transmission."]
["Josep Cladera / Alex Perálvarez","Tenured lecturer / Investigador Postdoctoral","Campus de Bellaterra\nFacultat de Medicina\nEdifici M\n08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)\n","josep.cladera@uab.cat / alex.peralvarez@uab.cat","Biochemistry and Molecular Biology","Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology / Biophysics Unit","Computational Biophysics of Membrane Proteins","Study of the molecular mechanism of membrane proteins from computational perspectives. Bioinformatics and computational biophysics tools to understand key processes of membrane proteins such as GPCRs, transporters and ion channels, cell penetrating peptides and the relationship with biomembranes. Specific tools to be used will be comparative computational proteomics, evolutionary profiling, docking and molecular dynamics."]
["David Reverter","Researcher and Tenure-track lecturer","IBB - Campus Universitari - 08193 Bellaterra - Cerdanyola del Vallès - Barcelona\n","david.reverter@uab.cat","Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine","Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology /  Biotechnology and Biomedicine Institute (IBB)","Protein Structure / Protein Crystallography / Protein Function","Structural and Functional Characterization of post-translational modifications of proteins (Ubiquitin, SUMO and phosphorylation modification)."]
["Ester Boix","Tenure-track lecturer","Dpt. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus de Bellaterra\nFacultat de Medicina\nEdifici M\n08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)","Ester.Boix@uab.cat","Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona","Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology","Structure- function studies on human RNases involved in innate immunity. ","Human antimicrobial RNases are secretory cytotoxic proteins involved in the host defense against invading pathogens. We are exploring the structural determinants underlying their mechanism of action towards the design of alternative antibiotics."]
["Núria S. Coll","Researcher","Campus UAB. Edifici CRAG (08193) Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","nuria.sanchez-coll@cragenomica.es","Biotecnologia Vegetal","Stress Program/ CRAG","Study of plant metacaspases as executioners of programmed cell death (PCD)","We have shown that metacaspases, distant relatives of caspases, are main regulators of PCD in plants. The aim of this PhD is to decipher the composition of protein complexes that regulate execution of the hypersensitive response (HR) cell death and how these protein hubs dynamically respond to pathogen recognition. For more info: http://www.cragenomica.es/research-groups/bacterial-pathogens-and-plant-cell-death"]
["Marc Valls","Researcher","Campus UAB. Edifici CRAG (08193) Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) \n","marc.valls@cragenomica.es","Biotecnologia Vegetal","Stress Program/ CRAG","Genetic determinants controlling bacterial diseases on crop plants","The project intends to study two aspects controlling bacterial wilt, a devastating disease caused by the wide-host range pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. During the PhD, the student will 1) define when and where in the plant is the main bacterial  pathogenicity determinant - the type III secretion system-  expressed 2) identify the plant targets of the R. solanacearum effector AWR5. More info: http://www.ub.edu/bactplantdiseases/index.html"]
["Adelina Vallribera Masso","Tenured Lecturer","Area of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Edifici C, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","adelina.vallribera@uab.es","Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Fluorous chemistry","Synthesis of nanometalic-fluorous anti-bacterial dyes as advanced composites for artificial surfaces"]
["Gregori Ujaque","Tenured lecturer","Dep. Química; Edifici C Facultat de Ciències\n08193 - Cerdanyola del Vallès\n ","gregori.ujaque@uab.cat","Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Catalysis (modelling)","Accomplishing dream reactions in chemistry based on new catalytic C-N and C-O bond formation processes. "]
["José M. Lluch López","Full professor","Department of Chemistry, Edifici C, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","JoseMaria.Lluch@uab.cat","Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Computational Chemical Glycobiology"," Inhibition of aberrant glycosylation in metastatic cells. A computational drug design study.\n"]
["Roser Pleixats Rovira","Full professor","Department of Chemistry, Edifici C, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","Roser.Pleixats@uab.cat","Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Nanomaterials for applications in catalysis and biomedicine","metal and organosilica nanoparticles for catalysis and biomedical applications"]
["Francesc Teixidor-Bombardó","Professor","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Carrer dels Tillers, Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain. UAB","teixidor@icmab.es","Chemistry","Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)","Light Harvesting Molecular Materials with Reversible Tunable Electroactive Moieties","The PhD work will seek to link Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (pyrene, perylene, anthracene, chrysene) all capable to interact with light with metallacarboranes to produce an action. The metallacarboranes are reversible electroactive sandwich compounds of the metallocene type with many opportunities, among them their ease of redox tuning, a process demonstrated by the offering position group. By tuning the redox potential it is sought to produce reducing agents or electron transfer agents triggered by wide spectrum light, or by laser pulses, so to produce molecules that can be used in light harvesting, in molecular electronics or in molecular computers. It is further sought to replace the PAH for fullerene, nanotubes and graphene.   "]
["José Giner Planas","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Carrer dels Tillers, Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain. UAB","jginerplanas@icmab.es","Chemistry","Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering ","Functional Metal-Borane Framework Materials","The PhD work will seek to correlate structural features with physical properties and to design synthetic methods to prepare porous and functional Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) and to tune their structures and properties. Unprecedented carborane-based building blocks will be synthesized and combined with suitable transition metals to provide MOFs and then use a wide variety of techniques to study their structure and properties with emphasis in energy and environmental applications."]
["Clara Viñas i Teixidor","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Carrer dels Tillers, Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain. UAB","clara@icmab.es","Chemistry","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)","Molecular Biomaterials","PhD thesis will deal with the synthesis, purification and characterization of multifunctional-boron-cluster-based compounds to be investigated for diverse medicinal applications ranging from therapies to biomaterials and sensors/biosensors. This thesis’ objectives are based on previous goals into the group that can be better seen in better detail in the following publications: Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 3370–3372; Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 6700–6703; Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 11415-11417; Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 12325–12328; Biomaterials 32 (2011) 6389-6398 and J. Am. Chem.Soc. 2012, 134, 212−221. The candidate should be a talented chemist enjoying synthetic chemistry that will cooperate with biologists and physicians."]
["Rosario Núñez Aguilera","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Carrer dels Tillers, Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain. UAB","rosario@icmab.es","Chemistry","Department of Materials Science Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)","Photoluminescent Boron-based Molecular Materials","PhD thesis will deal with the developing of new boron based molecules as fluorophores with potential application as optoelectronic systems or as molecular probes. The PhD student will work to understand the photoluminescent behavior of these systems that contain boron cages. The structural and electronic properties of the boron clusters will play a significant role in the photophysical properties of the luminescent materials. Changes in the structure and substituents of the cluster will permit to tune these properties in order to improve the emission intensity or produce low emission energy in the new materials (Chem.Eur. J. 2013, 19, 17021; Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9940). The student will learn to use different techniques for the characterization: Infrared Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, mass spectrometry, UV-vis, fluorescence, among others. The PhD student will be integrated in a multidisciplinary group and will have to interact with other expert groups to evaluate the incorporation of the molecules into devices or to explore their biomedical applications. "]
["José Vidal Gancedo","Researcher","Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona - CSIC. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra","j.vidal@icmab.es","Chemistry","Department of Chemistry / Department of Material Science (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona - CSIC)","Chemistry","Development of mono, bi and polyradicals for Nuclear Magnetic Imaging aplications"]
["Dr. Manel del Valle","Tenured Lecturer","Department of Chemistry, Edifici Cn, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","manel.delvalle@uab.es","Chemistry, Materials science, Electroquimica, ciencia y tecnologia, ","Department of Chemistry","Nanobiosensors","Electronic tongues - Application of chemical sensors/biosensors to develop analysis systems to be applied in the wine industry: wine qualifiaction, detection of defects, automated taste assessment"]
["Narcis Mestres Andreu","Researcher","Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Campus UAB 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), SPAIN","narcis.mestres@icmab.es","CIENCIA DE MATERIALS","Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering ","NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY","Integrated functional oxide nanostructures on silicon for energy and environmentaly applications. Growth of functional oxide nanowires (ZnO, BaTiO3, PZT, La0.7Sr0.3MnO3,…)  integrated on Si substrates by chemical solution deposition methods, for applications in thermoelectricity, piezoelectricity, and solar cells. Some recent references on the field by our group:    A. Carretero-Genevrier et al., Advanced Functional Materials 2010, 20, 2139; Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133, 4053; Chemical Communications 2012, 48, 6223; Chemical Society Reviews 2014, 43, 2042; Chemical Society Reviews 2014, 43, 2200; Chemistry of Materials 2014,  26, 1019; J. Zabaleta et al. NANOSCALE 2013, 5, 2990; APL Materials 2014,  2, 076111."]
["M. Teresa Espinal","Full professor","Departament de Filologia Catalana\nEdifici B\nFacultat de Filosofia i Lletres\n08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)\n","Teresa.Espinal@uab.cat ","Cognitive Science and Language //http://www.ub.edu/ccil/?q=en/content/presentation ","Department of Catalan Studies","LINGUISTICS AND COGNITION","NOUN INTERPRETATION. REFERENCE TO KINDS AND TO OTHER GENERIC EXPRESSIONS"]
["José Manuel Perez Tornero","Full professor","Departament de Periodisme i Ciències de la Comunicació\nEdifici I \n08193 Bellaterra\n(Campus UAB, \nCerdanyola del Vallès)","d.periodisme@uab.cat","Communication and Journalism","Department of Journalism and Communications Studies","Media Literacy and Digital Platforms","Media Literacy and Digital Platforms"]
["Tomàs Margalef","Full professor","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","tomas.margalef@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High Performance Computing Applications for science and engineering  (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/hpca4se/en)","Performance Engineering of computational science applications: The goal is to design and develop environmental applications (forest fire, meteotology, climate modeling) exploiting advanced HPC architectures (Multi/many core processors, accelerators, GPUs, ...)"]
["Ana Cortés","Tenured lecturer","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","ana.cortes@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High Performance Computing Applications for science and engineering  (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/hpca4se/en)","Challenges of Climate change modeling on multi/many core platforms."]
["Ana Cortés","Tenured lecturer","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","ana.cortes@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High Performance Computing Applications for science and engineering  (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/hpca4se/en)","Coupling multiscale models for natural hazard evolution prediction."]
["Juan Carlos Moure","Tenured lecturer","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","juancarlos.moure@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High performance computing","Design, development and optimization of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in GPU and multicore computing platforms like Nvidia Jetson "]
["Juan Carlos Moure","Tenured lecturer","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","juancarlos.moure@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High performance computing and bioinformatics","Performance Engineering of Next-Generation Sequencing bioinformatics algorithms for advanced computing platforms (NVIDIA GPU's, intel Xeon Phi coprocessors,…)."]
["Joan Serra-Sagrista","Tenured lecturer / Associate Professor","Dept. Information and Communications Engineering, Edifici Q\nCarrer de les Sitges\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","joan.serra@uab.cat  http://www.gici.uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Information and Communications Engineering","Data Compression; Image Coding; Source Coding; Coding Standards","Data compression, data transmission"]
["Remo Suppi Boldrito","Tenured lecturer","CAOS - Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Campus UAB, Edifici Q, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.\n","Remo.Suppi@uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High Performance Computing","GPUs allow is driving the commodity supercomputer for researchers. Agent Based Simulation is an increasing technique for research and parallelizing the execution is a complex problem involving mathematical models and supercomputing. This research line is oriented to develop methods, models & tools to create decision-making systems."]
["Remo Suppi Boldrito","Tenured lecturer","CAOS - Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Campus UAB, Edifici Q, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.\n","Remo.Suppi@uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","Data mining","Personal medicine is pinpointing as one of the big investments nowadays and in future research. Extracting knowledge of big clinical databases to be able to allow physicians to in real time is a big problem to solve. Data mining solves this problem hiding complexity to real world problems and is oriented to develop methodologies to extract knowledge from the stored data"]
["Remo Suppi Boldrito","Tenured lecturer","CAOS - Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Campus UAB, Edifici Q, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.\n","Remo.Suppi@uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","Distributed Agent Based Simulation","One of the main challenges at parallel and distributed agent based simulation is the communication between the agent. Many processes communication is required in this type of simulation in order to keep the coherence of the simulation. Therefore many simulations do not get efficiency because its processes communication is not appropriate. The idea is optimize the communication at parallel and distributed agent based simulation with developing strategy, heuristics and algorithm taking in account specific characteristics of this kind of simulation."]
["Remo Suppi Boldrito","Tenured lecturer","CAOS - Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Campus UAB, Edifici Q, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.\n","Remo.Suppi@uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","Visualization Methodologies for Real Time Distributed Agent Based Simulation","In the literature and community there are many types visualizations tools. However this tools are not adequate/optimized for realistic Agent Based Distributed Simulation. The objective is research line is to propose methods, techniques and tools with aim provide solutions for this type of simulation taking in account the requirement of high performance computing."]
["Dimosthenis Karatzas","Researcher","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","dimos@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Advanced camera based reading systems for Human-Document Interaction","The host research group is a world leader in robust reading methodologies, aiming to understand textual information in images in unconstrained conditions. The aim of the proposed PhD study is to devise efficient camera based methods for robust reading and unrestricted document understanding with the purpose of integrating such methods to mobile platforms. Of particular interest will be exploring the use of such methods as enabling technologies in the context of human-document interaction, for next generation interfaces linking the physical and the digital counterparts of documents."]
["Carlo Gatta","Teaching staff and researcher","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","cgatta@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Computer vision","Unsupervised representation learning is of paramount importance in modern computer vision, since unlabelled data is growing exponentially, while labeled data is not, due to the high cost of manual labelling. The project aims at building non-greedy unsupervised learning algorithms in the context of convolutional neural network. Special attention will be devoted to limit (or eliminate) the need of tuning meta-parameters, thus giving the algorithm broad application in the scientific community and for practitioners/companies. The research will be performed at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, which hosts over one hundred computer vision scientists and is a leading international research center."]
["Alícia Fornés Bisquerra / Josep Lladós Canet","Adjunt lecturer / Full professor","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","afornes@cvc.uab.es / \nJosep.Llados@uab.cat","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Optical Music Recognition of handwritten music score images","Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is a classical research field of Document Image Analysis and Recognition, which consists in the understanding of information from images of music scores and their conversion into a machine readable format. It allows a huge number of applications, such as the edition and renewal of scores, the conversion into Braille code, the creation of collecting databases to perform musicological analysis, and the production of audio description files (e.g. MIDI, MusicXML). Contrary to printed scores, the recognition of handwritten music scores is still considered an open problem, mainly because of the variability of the handwriting style. Therefore, the PhD research work will be focused on the recognition of handwritten music scores. First, we will investigate the most suitable decomposition of hand-drawn music symbols into graphical primitives in order to propose graph-based representations for the recognition of music symbols. Secondly, we will focus on the incorporation of syntactical analysis to the recognition of music scores. Since music notation follows the rules of music theory, it can effectively guide the recognition of music symbols and solve ambiguities. For this purpose, we will investigate the adaptation of 2-dimensional grammars (e.g. graph-grammars). As experimental framework, we will apply the research in a cultural heritage project on historical handwritten musical scores from the Liceu (Barcelona Opera House).\n"]
["Jordi Gonzàlez Sabaté","Tenured lecturer","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","Jordi.Gonzalez@uab.cat","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Image Perception in Social Networks","The primary objective of this project is to investigate the potential of exploiting semantics hashtags on photo-sharing Social Networks, like Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or Google+. Taking advantage of the rapidly growing data available, with hundreds of millions of images uploaded per day, we aim to develop a system capable to scale up to any amount of data fed to the envisaged system, thus endowing to cope with the changing and evolving image tastes, typically found in user communities. So the number of concepts will not be a priori defined, neither the training data to be used. The framework to be developed will continuously search and retrieve data from different social networks to learn new concepts, as being detected in the image recognition process."]
["Joost Van De Weijer","Teaching staff and researcher","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","joost@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Vision Center","Computer Vision","Color understanding is one of the relevant research fields in computer vision. Describing the color of objects independent of the illumination colors, scene geometry, shadows and shading effects, is important to almost all computer vision applications. We propose to investigate the implications of recent developments in Deep Learning (and Convolutional networks) for the field of color imaging. The projects aims to improve state-of-the-art in color features extraction and propose new algorithms for white balancing based on deep learning. The research will be performed at the Computer Vision Center which has over hundred computer vision scientists and is one of the leading centers in Europe. Anybody interested feel free to contact me for additional information."]
["Bogdan Raducanu","Teching staff and researcher","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","bogdan@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Vision Center","Computer Vision, pattern recognition, human-computer interaction, social robotics\n\nhttp://www.cvc.uab.es/~bogdan/","Social robotics represents a relatively recent and very challenging area of research. It refers to a new generation of robots which are designed specifically to support a richer form of interaction with people, to cohabitate with them and, maybe one day, to be part of their everyday life. They are supposed to initiate, respond and mantain coherent interaction with the user. For this purpose, social robots are endowed with human-like perception capabilities, like: vision, hearing and tact. From all of them, vision is perhaps the most important and complex one. In consequence, a very natural way to assess a person's presence and to interact with him/her is thorough sensing and interpretation of his/her facial information. Faces are the main cue people use in order to assess a person's identity. At the same time, faces are the main gateway we use to express our emotions.\n\nObjectives: The purpose of this Ph.D. proposals is to study several aspects of the human-robot interaction which will further contribute to fill in the gap between the two worlds:\n- semi-supervised face recognition through online learning: starting with an initial set of face, the robot should built models of unseen persons, with a minimum intervention from the user\n- inferring a person's mood through facial expression analysis: we are interested to go beyond the physical signals and map them into mental states. We would like to identify the following attributes: interest, engagement, confusion, boredom.\n- creating user profiles through the integration of the previous two points. This will allow the robot to interact  with each individual in a personalized way.\n\nThe working platform is represented by the AIBO robot."]
["Ernest Valveny Llobet","Full professor","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","ernest@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","Graph-based visual recognition. Graphs are powerful structures that permit to easily represent relations between parts of an image in problems such as object recognition or image retrieval. The topic of this proposal focuses on how to exploit the potential of graph-based representations in computer vision tasks making use of novel techniques for graph matching and classification that overcome classical limitations of graph-based methods in terms of complexity and accuracy. "]
["Antonio M. López Peña","Titular d'universitat numerari","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","AntonioManuel.Lopez@uab.cat","Computer Science","Computer Science Department / Computer Vision Center","Computer Vision for Autonomous Driving","Generation of 3D semantic maps and algorithms for vision-based localization. This is a key technology for the self-driving of cars."]
["Montserrat Solsona Pairó","Tenured lecturer","Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics. Carrer de Can Altayó, Ed.E2. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)","Montse.Solsona@uab.cat","Demography","Department of Geography","Divorce and social vulnerability in Spain","Study of time uses (compulsory and leisure activities, daily and non-daily activities) and living spaces (the territory where these activities take place) of members of monoparental families and reconstituted families, compared to biparental families, from a double perspective: that of gender and that of the children's double families."]
["María José Vega ","Full professor","Departamento de Filología Española y Teoría de la Literatura, edificio B, Facultad de Letras, campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), 08193, Spain","vega.mariajose@gmail.com","Doctoral Programme in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature ","Department of Spanish Studies and Theory of Literature (Seminario de Poética del Renacimiento)","Comparative Literature, Theory of Literature","Early Modern poetics (literary theory), Early Modern censorship"]
["Asier Ibeas","Tenure-track lecturer","Departament de Telecomunicació i d'Enginyeria de Sistemes, Escola d'Enginyeria, Office QC-1053, Edifici Q. Campus  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193. Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain","asier.ibeas@uab.cat","Doctorat en Enginyeria Electrònica i de Telecomunicació","Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering","Advanced Systems Automation and Control","The objective of this proposal is to develop neural-network based identification and control algorithms to succesfully and efficiently control Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP). Currently, there exist two benchmark platforms widely accepted to simulate the behaviour of real WWTP. These are callled the BSM1 and BSM2 bechmak problems. Thus, if a control methodology offers a good behaviour when proved on these models, it is highly likely that it will success on a real plant. The PhD candidate will use these platforms to test the performance of the controllers designed. More specifically, the tasks to be carried out to achive the proposed objective are: i) the Neural Network based identification of ASM1, ii) the Neural-network control of ASM1, iii) Extension of the above results to the complete BSM1 model and, iv) consider robustness issues in the previously designed controllers. "]
["M. Pilar Casado Lechuga  ","Professor Agregat","Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Edifici Cn, Facultat de Ciències UAB, E-08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain","casado@ifae.es","Doctorat en Física","Departament of Physics/IFAE","Física d'Altes Energies","\"Search for new phenomena using the ATLAS detector with LHC collisions at CERN\"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Higgs boson discovered in 2012 by ATLAS and CMS is associated with the mechanism that provides mass to the known fundamental particles. It is of crucial interest to verify whether this particle is really the Standard Model Higgs boson and probe in depth the mechanism of the generation of mass. This is the aim of the coming run of the LHC. IFAE has a broad program that addresses these questions, including precise determination of some of the Higgs properties (mass, spin and couplings) and search for additional Higgs bosons involved in the mechanism of mass generation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The PhD student will be part of the IFAE/UAB ATLAS group and in turn member of the ATLAS Collaboration. The research work will be carried out in the very international context of ATLAS with English as the working language."]
["Daniel Campos Moreno","Tenure-track lecturer","Grup de física estadística. Dept. de Física. Facultat de Ciències. Edifici C\nCampus de Bellaterra\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","daniel.campos@uab.es","Doctorate in Physics","Department of Physics","Mesoscopic (random walk) models for animal and human movement and navigation","Stochastic analysis of real animal and human paths/trajectories in order to evaluate the level of randomness and informational complexity that living organisms exhibit."]
["Marc Porti Pujal","Tenured lecturer","Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica. Edifici Q, Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193. Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain","marc.porti@uab.es","Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering","Department of Electronic Engineering","Nanoscale and device level variability and reliability of advanced CMOS and emergent devices for nanoelectronics.","The PhD student's work will be focused on the nanoscale properties, variability and reliability of ultra-scaled CMOS technologies and/or emergent devices as those based on resistive switching (a hot topic for the fabrication of RRAM new generation memory cells) or altermative materials as graphene, which is of paramount importance for the industry. To do that, standard characterization techniques at wafer level and Atomic Force Microscope based techniques (with nanometer resolution) will be combined.The dominant aging mechanisms related to the MOSFET gate dielectric in these technologies and the intrinsic device variability could be considered. The PhD student will work in one of the hottest topics in nanoelectronics in a group with extensive collaborations with worldwide (USA, Germany, China...) research institutions and companies in the field of micro/nanoelectronics. The collaborative framework provided by the group will give an international projection to the student activities. The thesis will be presented in a PhD Program that in the past received the Excellence Mention. http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/redec/"]
["Rosana Rodríguez Martínez","Tenured lecturer","Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica. Edifici Q. Campus  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193. Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain","Rosana.Rodriguez@uab.es","Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering","Department of Electronic Engineering","Reliability of micro/nanoelectronics devices and circuits","The research is focused to the reliability of micro/nanoelectronics devices and circuits. It includes the electrical characterization and reliability evaluation of ultra-scaled advanced CMOS technologies. The final goal is the modelling of different failure mechanims of devices, together with the variability associated to the device fabrication  process, to simulate and predict the reliability of integrated  circuits, which is extremelly important from the micro/nanoelectronics industry point of view. The research includes state of the art emerging devices as those based in the resistive switching phenomena, which are being deeper investigated for the fabrication of RRAM new generation memory cells. More information in: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/redec/es"]
["Gonzalo Seco Granados","Tenure-track lecturer","Departament de Telecomunicació i d'Enginyeria de Sistemes\nEdifici Q Escola d'Enginyeria 08193 Bellaterra\n","gonzalo.seco@uab.cat","Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering","Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering","Communications, navigation and networking\n\nResearch Group on Signal Processing for Communications and Navigation (http://spcomnav.uab.cat)","Title: Advanced Positioning Systems for Urban Environments based on GNSS (including Beidou) and 5G wireless systems. \n\nBrief description: Current technology, which is mostly based on GNSS, WiFI and INS, offers adequate performance for conventional car and pedestrian navigation, but it suffers from severelimitations when new requirements are demanded, such as availability in (semi-)indoor scenarios, provision of integrity metrics, or robustness against spoofing attacks.\n\nIn order to develop positioning technologies that overcome those deficiencies, we will work on three topics:\n1. Positioning signals for 5G wireless communications systems and device-to-device ranging.\n2. Signal-level integrity for GNSS.\n3. Probabilistic positioning algorithms based on graphical models."]
["Carles Ferrer Ramis","Full professor","Dept. Microelectrònica i Sistemes Electrònics. Edifici Q. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain","carles.ferrer@uab.cat","Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering","Department of Microelectronics and Electronics Systems","Integrated Circuits and Systems Design","Livestock actitude determination from inertial sensing devices implemented on a ruminal implanted bolus Hw platform: "]
["Ferran Martín ","Full professor","GEMMA/CIMITEC, Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica, Edifici Q 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","Ferran.Martin@uab.es","Electronics Engineering and Telecomunications ","Department of Electronic Engineering","RF/microwave engineering, metamaterials and antennas","Microwave sensors for medical diagnosis and biosensing. The aim of this topic activity is to design and fabricate sensors, operating at microwave frequencies, sensitive to the variations experienced by biological substances or organic tissues when they suffer from abnormalities, or damage, such as cancerous tissue, excess sugar in blood, etc. Mainly, such anomalies give rise to dramatic variations in the dielectric constant of the materials under test that can be detected through a proper design of the sensors. Such sensors will be designed by combining transmission lines (for microwave excitation) and resonant particles (acting as sensing elements), and the principle of operation is the variation of the resonance frequency, phase, quality factor, or insertion loss of the sensor structures. Novel strategies for improving sensitivity, linearity and dynamic range, based on symmetry properties and metamaterials will be explored in the project. This research activity clearly fits to the societal challenges defined by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 Research Strategy Plan. "]
["David Jiménez Jiménez","Tenure-track lecturer","Departament of Electronic Engineering; Escola d'Enginyeria, Edifici Q, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","david.jimenez@uab.es","Enginyeria Electrònica","Department of Electronic Engineering","Computational nanoelectronics","In the framework of the EU project Graphene Flagship nº 604391, which is landmark project funded with 1000 million euros along 10 years, with 76 participating partners of 17 european countries, we are seeking an excellent candidate pursuing a PhD in the following research lines:\n\nLINE 1.-  Analog and radio-frequency performance of Graphene-FETs: The use of gapless graphene as a channel material in field-effect transistors (G-FET) is expected to allow entering the THz spectrum, impacting in applications such as mobile-telephony, WLANs, WPANs, radar, and imaging. The candidate will have main responsabilities in developing a compact model for small signal analysis (AC), large signal behavior (transient), and DC. First-principles and time-dependent tight-binding BITLLES simulations will be used to provide physical insight and validate its RF expectations.  \n\nLINE 2.- Digital performance of MoS2 and other two-dimensional transistors: Single-layer MoS2 or other metal dichalcogenides, could have a very relevant impact in digital applications owing to their unique properties as two-dimensional crystals combined with their semiconducting nature. In this regard the candidate will help to develop a simulations combining the compact modeling with the first-principles and tight-binding simulations. \n"]
["Roberto Petrocelli","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","rpetrocelli@cells.es","Enginyería Electrónica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Power supplies for Accelerators","High availability precision power supplies for magnets of particle accelerators: This thesis proposes to study new architectural designs for the high precision power supplies of the magnets of a synchrotron light source or any particle accelerator, with the added value of minimizing the mean time to repair (MTTR) and the mean time between failures (MTBF). Assuring the high precision output required in all possible failure conditions involves a conceptual redesign of the traditional architectures based in redundant systems. In this context, the main purpose is the research in high precision fault tolerant power converters."]
["Antonio Baldi Coll","Researcher","Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) Campus UAB 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), SPAIN","antoni.baldi@imb-cnm.csic.es","Enginyeria Electronica i Telecomunicació","Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) ","Technology micro and nanoelectronics","The research work will focus on the development of Lab-on-a-chip devices. The student will be involved in activities related to microfluidics, micro-nanofabrication, and solid-state (bio)chemical microsensors. Candidates with a strong background in electronic engineering, physics, and chemistry are sought.     "]
["Montserrat Sarrà Adroguer","Tenured lecturer","Departament d'Enginyeria Química\nEscola d'Enginyeria. Edifici Q\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)\n","Montserrat.Sarra@uab.cat","Environmental Science and Technology","Department of Chemical Engineering","Biodegradation of industrial pollutants and waste recovery ","Ethanol production by fungi from lignocellulosic materials"]
["Mario Giampietro","Professor d’Investigació ICREA ","ICTA-ICP, Edifici Z, Office Z/103, Carrer de les columnes, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E- 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès - Barcelona) ","Mario.Giampietro@uab.cat","Environmental Sciences","Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)","Energy Analysis; Multi-Criteria Analysis of Sustainability; Integrated Assessment","To undertake National, Sectorial and Provincial level energy Analysis in China. To investigate Chinese energy efficiency policies and compare European/Chinese policy impacts, tradeoffs and effectiveness "]
["Montse Pont","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","pont@cells.es","Fisica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Pulsed magnets for Accelerators","Multipole Kicker Injection for ALBA: Desing, construction, tests, installation and commissioning of a Multipole Kicker for the ALBA Storage Ring injection. This device will allow an injection in the Storage Ring that will minimise the orbit distortion during TopUp operation, improving the stability of the photon beam for the users."]
["Gabriele Benedetti","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","gbenedetti@cells.es","Fisica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Beam Dynamics of Accelerators","Ultra-low emmitance desing for ALBA: Design of an alternative magnetic lattice for the ALBA Storage Ring applying the most recent technologic developments. The proposal is to use longitidunal varying permanet dipole magnets in order to create a multibend achromat lattice which will allow to reduce the emittance of the Storage Ring by one order of magnitude, so that beam sizes are reduced and new experiments using coherent ligth can be realised at ALBA."]
["Laura Simonelli","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","lsimonelli@cells.es","Fisica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Materials Science: high-Tc superconductivity","Studies of strongly-correlated electronic materials by synchrotron X-ray absorption and emission techniques. The proposed work will be performed at the BL22-CLAESS line and it will consist on the study of electron-correlated materials (f.i. Fe-based pnictides superconductors and topological insulators) by synchrotron techniques, including: Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS), X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure XANES and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy. One of the main aims of the project is to get a deeper understanding of the unconventional superconductivity phenomenon, suspected to be driven by an intricate relation between spin, charge, and lattice, which is far from clear yet.\nAdditionally, the Ph.D. student will get experience in the operation of the BL22-CLAESS beamline and in its instrumentation.\n"]
["Lucia Aballe","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","laballe@cells.es","Fisica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Materials Science: multiferroics","Studies of advanced materials by synchrotron X-ray photoemission electron microscopy. The proposed work will be performed at the BL24-CIRCE beamline (Photoelectron Emission Microscopy PEEM end station) and it will consist of the study of advanced materials (e.g. multiferroic system under electric fields) using different imaging techniques including photoelectron polarized X-rays. \nIt will be studied the magnetization configurations of multiferroic thin films and nanostructures and to explore possibilities to control magnetization by electrical fields due to magnetoelectric coupling, in particular due to magnetoelastic interaction. Materials to be studied are thin layers of ferromagnetic metals (Co or Fe) deposited in-situ at the PEEM endstation on top of ferroelectric oxides. As the deposition can also be done in oxygen atmosphere instead of UHV, thin oxide layers like of CoO or FeO can be studied, which, close to a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic transition, are expected to show big effective magnetoelectric effects.\nAdditionally, the Ph.D. student will get experience in the operation of the BL24-CIRCE beamline and in its instrumentation.\n"]
["Manuel Valvidares","Researcher","ALBA - CELLS.  Ctra. BP1413, Km 3.3. 08290-Cerdanyola del Vallès","mvalvidares@cells.es","Fisica","Department of Physics (ALBA-CELLS)","Materials Science:graphene","Studies of magnetic materials using advanced synchrotron radiation techniques. The proposed work will be performed at the BL29-BOREAS beamline, within its research team, and it will use different techniques of synchrotron radiation (X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) and X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism XMLD) as well as resonant scattering in order to characterize advanced magnetic materials including optimized graphene layers. To fabricate and develop novel hybrid ferromagnetic-graphene systems of relevance for the investigation of fundamental properties is not straightforward. The project is intended to help to solve or turn around difficulties for the growth of high quality ferromagnetic-graphene interfaces and related nanosystems. Our plan will tackle those difficulties by combining relevant and novel substrates with in-situ sample growth capabilities available at ALBA synchrotron, and also by introducing smart fabrication strategies and appropriate surface growth mechanisms.\nAdditionally, the Ph.D. student will get experience in the operation of the BL29-BOREAS beamline and its instrumentation.\n"]
["Pedro Gomez-Romero","Researcher","Institut Català de nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra","pedro.gomez@cin2.es","Materials Science","Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, ICN2","Materials for Energy","Electrochemical energy storage technologies are in urgent need of improvements. Batteries must improve their power density and charge faster while  supercapacitors must improve energy density. We propose the design of hybrid electrode materials aiming at high energy and power densities by combining nanocarbons (graphene, activated carbons) with electroactive inorganic species."]
["Jordi Arbiol","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra","arbiol@icrea.cat","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC)","Advanced Electron Microscopy applied to Nanomaterials","Advanced 3D study of the structural, morphological, chemical and physical properties of metal complex nanostructures"]
["Jordi Arbiol","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra","arbiol@icrea.cat ","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC)","Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) applied to nanostructured materials","Morphological characterization of novel bioconjugates based on new micro- and nanostructured solid or colloidal particles loaded with bioactive molecules"]
["Marta Mas Torrent","Researcher","Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain","mmas@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (ICMAB)","Organic electronic devices for sensing applications","Organic devices are raising a great deal of interest for low-cost and large area applications. Here, we plan to develop organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) to develop a new generation of biosensors and sensors of toxic pollutants."]
["Jordi Sort","Adjunct lecturer","Facultat de Ciències, Building Cc, UAB","jordi.sort@uab.cat","Materials Science","Department of Physics","Nanostructured Materials","Porous metallic glassy alloys for new cutting-edge applications"]
["Javier Rodríguez-Viejo","Full professor","Departament de Física\nEdifici C\n08193 Bellaterra\n(Cerdanyola del Vallès)\n","javier.rodriguez@uab.cat","Materials Science","Department of physics","Ultrastable glasses","Glasses are ubiquituos materials in our day life. However, their low stability prevents its use in many applications. Ultrastable glasses vapor deposited below Tg show enhanced kinetic and thermodynamic properties compared to conventional glasses. Metallic glasses prepared from the same route also show enhanced mechanical properties. This project aims to prepare and investigate the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of vapor-deposited Mg-based and Zr-based thin film metallic glasses. The project will focus on potential applications of those glasses."]
["Javier Rodríguez-Viejo","Full professor","Departament de Física\nEdifici C\n08193 Bellaterra\n(Cerdanyola del Vallès)\n","javier.rodriguez@uab.cat","Materials Science","Department of physics","nanothermoelectricity","The low figure of merit of current thermoelectric (TE) materials prevents their widespread use in waste-heat recovery or energy harvesting applications. Low-dimensional materials, such as nanostructured silicides or ultrathin Si or SiGe membranes, offer a potential route to increase the TE efficiency and opens a new path to develop smart autonomous microsystems. This project will develop a CMOS compatible microgenerator using the low-dimensional materials stated above. The TE device will be integrated into a smart microsystem to harvest energy for remote and sensing applications by using ultralow power electronics.     "]
["Prof. Jaume Veciana Miró","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","vecianaj@icmab.es","Materials Science (Chemistry Department)","Department of Chemistry (Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (www.icmab.es/nanomol) ICMAB-CSIC)","Nanochemistry of Molecular Materials for 2-Photon Microscopy Applications","In the frame of a big collaborative European project (Nano2fun), of which J. Veciana is the IP in Spain, the work will consist on the design, preparation and characterization of molecular multifunctional materials based on: i) Small Unilamellar Vesicles (SUVs) conjugated with dyes and ii) octupolar and quadrupolar systems based on organic radicals with tunable polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities for the preparation of organic nanoparticles (ONPs) for 2-Photon Absorption Microscopy (2PM). These nanostructures will be prepared by a methodology based on compressed fluid, named DELOS-SUSP (depressurization of expanded liquid organic solution-suspension). Structural characterization of the dye-nanovesicle conjugates and the ONPs will be addressed by appropriate spectroscopic (absorption, emission and non-linear optical), microscopic and calorimetric techniques towards a promising research fields with impressive applicative implications in the field of bioimaging and biomedicine."]
["Dr. Nora Ventosa","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","ventosa@icmab.es","Materials Science (Chemistry Department)","Dpt. Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials  ICMAB-CSIC","New nanovesicles for drug-delivery","The 21st century challenge in the pharmaceutical sector relies on the development of drug delivery systems based on supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. In this sense, vesicle like structures have arisen as supramolecular entities capable to selectively and efficiently deliver cargo molecules (drugs, proteins, enzymes) at the desired biological sites resulting in a considerable increase of their therapeutic activity whilst reducing side-effects. In the frame of a big collaborative project, the thesis work  will be centered in the preparation of new nanovesicle-enzyme conjugates as new nanomedicines for the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders, with particular focus on Fabry disease . Practical work will involve the preparation of nanoconjugates by methodologies using green compressed fluids, their deep physico-chemical characterization and pre-clinical in-vitro and in-vivo testing, in collaboration in the frame of  CIBER-BBN network."]
["Natàlia Majó Masferrer","Tenured lecturer","Facultat de Veterinària, Edifici V\nCampus de la UAB\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) \n","natalia.majo@uab.cat","Medicina i Sanitat Animals","Department  of Animal Health and Anatomy ","Avian influenza","Mechanisms of  virulence and transmision among different hosts, including humans, of avian influenza virus "]
["Dr. Ferran Segura Porta","Tenured lecturer","Parc Taulí s/n. Sabadell 08208. Tel:34937458252","fsegura@tauli.cat","Medicine","Department of Medicine","Zoonoses","Bar29 is a Rickettsia identified and isolated by our team in Barcelona. Its pathogenic role has been described; however, a little is known about its features. We have a project on its cycle of transmission, its reservoirs and vectors, and its relation with human diseases (clinical and therapeutic features). Project funded by Spanish goverment (PI11/02249, 62.617,50 €) )."]
["Dr. Ferran Segura Porta / Dra. Maria Mercè Nogueras","Tenured lecturer / Professora Associada Clínica","Parc Taulí s/n. Sabadell 08208. Tel:34937458252","fsegura@tauli.cat / mnogueras@tauli.cat","Medicine","Department of Medicine","Diagnosis","Development of a molecular diagnostic method for pathogens of difficult growth. Study of the antibiotic sensitivity of these pathogens by molecular biology . Project funded by Spanish Goverment (PI12/02308, 59290 €). "]
["Dr. Ferran Segura Porta / Dra. Maria Mercè Nogueras","Tenured lecturer / Professora Associada Clínica","Parc Taulí s/n. Sabadell 08208. Tel:34937458252","fsegura@tauli.cat / mnogueras@tauli.cat","Medicine","Department of Medicine","HIV/AIDS","Inmunological features of older HIV-infected patients related to their prognostic, response to HAART, progression, and survival. "]
[" José Rodríguez Alvarez","Tenured lecturer","Institut de Neurociencies, Unitat Bioquímica Medicina, Edifici M, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain","jose.rodriguez@uab.cat","Neuroscience","Institute of Neuroscience","Molecular events related with the early cognitive deficits in Alzheimer Disease","Synaptic dysfuction in Alzheimer disease and the search of early biological markers and therapeutical targets for this pathology."]
["Elena Galea / Roser Masgrau","Teaching staff / Tenure-track lecturer","Institute of Neuroscience. Unitat de Bioquímica de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina, Campus Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès","elena.galea@uab.cat;roser.masgrau@uab.cat","Neuroscience","Institute of Neuroscience","Mechanisms of glial and immune system activity in relation to neurodegenerative and neurovascular pathologies/Characterisation of anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects in experimental models of focal brain lesion and neurodegenerative diseases/Molecular mechanisms involved in the control of neuron survival and death and their relation to brain  pathologies","Astrocytic CREB as a therapeutic target: previous results in our research group havIn the brain, astrocytes participate in energy and redox homeostasis, neurovascular coupling and synaptic plasticity, all functions impaired in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous experiments in the research group have shown that gliotransmitters ATP and noradrenaline stimulate CREB-dependent transcription in astrocyte cultures and targeted overexpression of a constitutively active CREB in astrocytes completely changes the gene expression profile, both in astrocytes in culture and in the whole brain of  a model of focal injury. Specifically, CREB overexpression results in the rescue of enzymes related to cellular functions impared in AD. The goal of this thesis is to help to establish astrocytes, and in particular astrocytic CREB, as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s."]
["Jesús Giraldo Arjonilla / Jordi Ortiz de Pablo /Josefa Sabrià Pau / Carles Gil Giró","Tenured lecturer and Tenure-track lecturer","Institut de Neurociències. Facultat de Medicina. Edifici M2-115. 08193 Bellaterra","jesus.giraldo@uab.cat / jordi.ortiz@uab.cat / Josefa.sabria@uab.cat / carles.gil@uab.cat","Neuroscience","Institute of Neuroscience","Computational and biochemical investigation of the crosstalk between glutamate receptor 5 and dopamine D2 receptor in schizophrenia.","This research is oriented with an interdisciplinary approach in biochemistry and computational chemistry/mathematical science by joining under a common collaborative project two laboratories with previously proven experience in these research fields. The expected results would establish models predictive of drug combinations that would allow to quantify the utility of mGluR modulators to decrease the required doses of antipsychotics in schizophrenia. By lowering the detrimental side-effects of life-long antipsychotic medication, adherence to treatment could be improved, reducing psychotic episodes, and perhaps also by improving the efficacy of treatment on cognitive symptomatology."]
["Olga Pol","Researcher","Institut de Neurociències. Facultat de Medicina. Edifici M2-115. 08193 Bellaterra","olga.pol@uab.es","Neuroscience","Grup de Neurofarmacologia Molecular","Nitric oxide signaling and opioid/cannabinoid receptor regulation in chronic pain.","Investigate new approaches to relieve inflammatory o neuropathic chronic pain by using specific combinations of drugs that enhance the local analgesic action of opioids and/or cannabinoids and avoid the development of side effects."]
["Carlos A. Saura","Tenured lecturer","Institute of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Bellaterra, 08193, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain","carlos.saura@uab.cat","Neuroscience","Institute of Neuroscience","Mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction and memory loss in Alzheimer´s disease","Transcriptional mechanisms regulating synaptic function, plasticity and neurogenesis in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer´s disease. Novel gene and pharmacological therapeutic treatments for neurodegeneration. "]
["Joan Montaner Villalonga","Researcher and teaching staff","Vall Hebron Institute of Research, Pg. Vall d'Hebron, 119-129  08035 Barcelona Spain","31862jmv@comb.cat","Neurosciences","Vall Hebron Institute of Research","Neuroprotection & Stroke Biomarkers ","Neuroprotection: Use of experimental models (occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in rat and mice)  to test compounds to be used in Stroke therapy.Stroke Biomarkers: Optimizing the stages of the translation process, from discovery to routine use in Stroke diagnosis."]
["Pedro de Paco Sánchez","Tenure-track lecturer","Office room 1002, Edifici Q, Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193. Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain","pedro.depaco@uab.es","Ph.D in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering","Telecommunication and System Engineer","Antenna and Microwave System","Radiospectrum Policy. Spectrum monitoring system. Data base Spectrum Sharing. Spectrum sharing, as a means to enhance efficiency in spectrum use, has become a significant issue. The main goal is to examine spectrum monitoring, data, and analysis to improve spectrum utilization."]
["Àngels González Lafont","Full professor","Chemistry Department. Faculty of Sciences. Campus UAB. 08193 BELLATERRA (BARCELONA). SPAIN.","Angels.Gonzalez@uab.cat","PhD in Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Enzymes activity and Mechanisms : Lipoxygenases","Control of Reactions Catalyzed by Lipoxygenases (LOXs) and Application to the Resolution of Inflammatory Processes: In silico design of human 5-LOX inhibitors."]
["Josep Peñuelas ","Researcher","Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona\n08193 Bellaterra\n","josep.penuelas@uab.cat","PhD in Terrestrial Ecology","GLOBAL ECOLOGY UNIT","Global ecology of VOCs emissions by plants ","Global ecology of VOCs emissions by plants "]
["Josep Peñuelas ","Researcher","Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona\n08193 Bellaterra\n","josep.penuelas@uab.cat","PhD in Terrestrial Ecology","GLOBAL ECOLOGY UNIT","Global ecology of nutrient imbalances in the terrestrial ecosystems","Global ecology of nutrient imbalances in the terrestrial ecosystems"]
["Arnald Marcer / F. Xavier Picó","Researcher","Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona\n08193 Bellaterra\n","arnald.marcer@uab.cat","PhD in Terrestrial Ecology","CREAF / EBD-CSIC","Genetic diversity in the face of global change CGL2012-33220","Genetic diversity in the face of global change"]
["Jordi Catalan","Researcher","CSIC, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona\n08193 Bellaterra\n","j.catalan@creaf.uab.cat","PhD in Terrestrial Ecology","Biogeodynamics and Biodiversity research lab","Links between biogeochemistry and biodiversity in aquatic systems- CGL2013-45348-P","Microbial biodiversity distribution in biogeochemical gradients of  lake systems"]
["Teresa Freixes Sanjuán","Full professor","Faculty of Law. Building B. Campus of Bellatera \n 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès).\nBarcelona - Spain\n","tfreixes@telefonica.net","PhD Programm in Law","Department of Political Science and Public Law ","Multilevel constitutionalism","Configuration of the multilevel legal systems in the globalization. Global justice. Gender's perspective in the multilevel legal system."]
["Dolores Isabel Rexachs del Rosario","Tenured lecturer","Escola d'Enginyeria Edifici Q\nCarrer de les Sitges\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Barcelona SPAIN","dolores.rexachs@uab.es","PhD programme in Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems ","High Performance Computing","Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing, in the age of \"Big Data\": To facilitate a quick and efficient access to significant and critical data, in today applications, it is necessary to improve the parallel I/O system. The purpose of this research is to design methods and tools to identify the causes of the \"bottlenecks\" in the I/O of a system and provide the most efficient solutions to eliminate them. "]
["Emilio Luque Fadón","Full professor","Escola d'Enginyeria Edifici Q\nCarrer de les Sitges\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Barcelona SPAIN\n","emilio.luque@uab.es","PhD programme in Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems ","High Performance Computing","Information Technology for Smarter Health Services: Through the use of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC), in this research we propose to develop methods and tools to improve the quality of the health and wellness of the citizens. "]
["Juan Campos Coloma","Full professor","Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Department of Physics. Group of Optics. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain","juan.campos@uab.es","Physics","Department of Physics","Optics & Photonics","Generation of vectorial beams with spatial distributions of polarization, amplitude and phase by using liquid crystal spatial light modulators and conical refraction effect. Study of different applications."]
["Juan Campos Coloma","Full professor","Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Department of Physics. Group of Optics. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain","juan.campos@uab.es","Physics","Department of Physics","Optics & Photonics","Development of experimental methods and computer algorithms to measure the mirrors used in a synchrotron with sub-nanometer accuracy."]
["Juan Camacho Castro","Tenured lecturer","C3/138,  Departament de Física Edifici C\n08193 Bellaterra\n(Cerdanyola del Vallès)\n","juan.camacho@uab.cat","Physics","Department of Physics","Self-assembly of superparamagnetic particles in dispersion","Modelling the aggregation of superparamagnetic particles in suspension under uniform, non-uniform and variable magnetic fields. Theory and simulations."]
["Jordi Mompart","Tenured lecturer","Grup d'Òptica. Physics Department. Edifici Cc. Facultat de Ciències, Campus UAB-E08193, Bellaterra, Spain","jordi.mompart@uab.cat","Physics Doctorate","Department of Pysics","Quantum Optics","Quantum dynamics of single neutral atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates in ring potentials "]
["Jordi Garcia-Mas","Researcher","Edifici CRAG, Campus UAB,08193 Bellaterra","jordi.garcia@irta.cat","Plant Biology and Biotechnology","Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB. ","Melon Genomics","\"Unraveling the control of climacteric/non-climacteric ripening in melon (Cucumis melo L.) fruit\". Project: Genetic and genomic approaches for studying agronomically interesting traits in melon (AGL2012-40113-C02-01 MEC 1/1/2013-31/12/2015)."]
["Pere Arús","Researcher","Edifici CRAG, Campus UAB,08193 Bellaterra","pere.arus@irta.cat","Plant Biology and Biotechnology","Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB. ","Prunus Genomics","“Genomic approaches to facilitate introgression from wild Prunus into peach”. Project: “Use of genomic sequence for the characterization of intraclonal and interspecific variability in peach and almond” (AGL2012-40228-C02-01 MEC 1/1/2013-31/12/2015)."]
["Amparo Monfort Vives","Researcher","Edifici CRAG, Campus UAB,08193 Bellaterra","amparo.monfort@irta.cat","Plant Biology and Biotechnology","Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB. ","Strawberry Genomics","\"Analysis of candidate genes involved in the control of aroma in wild and cultivated strawberry\". Project: Genetic analysis of aroma in wild and cultivated strawberry: marker development for its selection in the cultivated species. (RTA2013-00010-00-00 MEC 01/10/2014-30/09/2017)."]
["Charlotte Poschenrieder","Full professor","Lab. Fisiologia Vegetal, Facultat Biociències, 08193 Bellaterra","charlotte.poschenrieder@uab.cat","Plant Biology and Biotechnology","Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology","Plant Stress Physiology","Study of plant adaptation to problem soils using natural variation of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions .  Project MICINN \"Ion homeostasis in model plants and interaction with microorganisms as keys to the adaptation of plants to problem soils\"BFU2013-42839-R 1/1/2014-31/12/2016"]
["Daniel Maspoch ","Researcher","ICN2 building, Campus de la UAB\n08193 Bellaterra","daniel.maspoch@icn.cat","Química o Ciència dels Materials","ICN2- Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia","Nanoscale Supramolecular Materials and porous Metal-Organic Frameworks","Design and synthesis of highly porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and related composites"]
[" José Luis Molina González / Miranda J Lubbers / Hugo Valenzuela García","Head of department / Researcher / Acting lecturer","Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural\nEdifici B - Facultat de Lletres\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)\n","MirandaJessica.Lubbers@uab.cat - joseluis.molina@uab.cat","Social and Cultural Anthropology ","Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology ","Social Networks: analysis and dynamics - emergent forms of work and consumption","The social networks of social economy"]
["Miquel Àngel Piera Eroles","Director of the Technical Innovation Cluster on Aeronautical Management","Carrer dels Emprius, 2\n08202 Sabadell-Barcelona-Spain\n","miquelangel.piera@uab.es","Systems Engineering","Department of telecomunication and systems engineering","Air Transport Logistics","Project “ FireGUARD : Fire Guided Unmanned Aircrafts and Resources Distribution“. Wild land fires, especially forest fires, have become increasingly devastating and uncontrollable phenomena, and its management an issue of global importance. Recent  climate changes have shown that wild land fires will be a serious challenge in the 21st century. The management of these fires present grave concerns for many governments around the world.\nGreater flexibility and more agile capabilities within fire management are two challenging research objectives that require the use of new Technologies for information acquisition. The use of Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles (UAV’s) could contribute to provide the right information at the right time from the right place at very low cost. However, despite the excellent advances from the telecommunication and aeronautical field in the design, control and navigation of UAV’s, their use as a fire management information support tool requires new models for Conflict Detection/Conflict Resolution (CD/CR) in the air side, new models for resource coordination in the land side and new image processing algorithms to provide reliable information regarding the fire evolution and other relevant information such as people, vegetation, or urban infra-structure that can help the fire management decision making. This research project seeks to integrate the expertise of three different research teams to develop a safe UAV information support tool for fire management.\nThe Phd CSC Research will address the integration of UAV’s inside the civil aerial space, focusing the research on the conflict resolution algorithm at strategic, tactical and operational time horizons.\n"]
["Eva Castells","Professor Titular interí","Toxicology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193","eva.castells@uab.cat","Terrestrial Ecology","Departament of Pharmacology, Terapeutics and Toxicology, Toxicology Unit","Chemical ecology and Toxicology","Role of chemical defenses on mediating the interaction between invasive plants and phytophagous insects. A toxicological, ecological and evolutionary perspective"]
["Laia Solano Gallego","Researcher","Facultat de Vaterinària, Edifici V\nCampus de la UAB\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","laia.solano@uab.cat","Animal Medicine and health","Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery","Immune responses in canine leishmaniosis","Study of Toll-like receptors in canine Leishmania infantum infection"]
["Andrew D. Bagdanov","Teaching staff and researcher","Centre de Visió per Computador               Edifici O - Campus UAB               08193 Bellaterra","bagdanov@cvc.uab.es","Computer Science","Computer Vision Center","Computer Vision","Identification problems like small-gallery face recognition and person re-identification are some of the most important and studied problems in computer vision. This problems are distinguished by the need to recognize very many targets on the basis of very small gallery image sets. In this project, we will look at semi-supervised and deep learning approaches to identification problems. Deep learning by Convolutional Neural Networks will be used to build robust and discriminative visual descriptors, and semi-supervised learning will be used to exploit unlabeled data to improve generalization to very large probe sets. The research will be performed at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, which hosts over one hundred computer vision scientists and is a leading international research center."]
["Giulio Pellegrini ","Researcher","Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC) \nCampus Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona\n08193 - Bellaterra\nBarcelona, Spain","giulio.pellegrini@csic.es","Physics","Department of Physics","Silicon radiation detectors.","Developing new pixel detector technologies that will ensure a leading role of CNM in the future ATLAS upgrades currently scheduled for the early 2020s"]
["Joaquín Arribas López","Adjunct lecturer","Vall d'Hebron Insitute d'Oncologia (VHIO)- Edifici Mediterranea- Psg. Vall d'Hebron 119-129- Barcelona 08035","jarribas@vhio.net; joaquin.arribas@uab.cat","Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine","Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology","Cellular Senescence, Breast Cancer and Cell Signaling","Cellular Senescence, Breast Cancer and Cell Signaling"]
["Arbern Merkoçi","Researcher","ICN2 Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra","arben.merkoci@icn.cat ","Chemistry/Biotechnology","Nanobioelectrpnics & Biosensors ","Nanobiosensors","Development and applications of graphene-based nanobiosensors for contaminants detection"]
["Benjamin Martinez Perea","Researcher","INSTITUT DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, ICMAB-CISC, CAMPUS UAB, 08193 BELLATERRA (BARCELONA)","ben.martinez@icmab.es","CIENCIA DE MATERIALS","Department of Materials Science INSTITUT DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, ICMAB-CSIC","Nanoscience and nanotechnology","Complex oxide thin films for spintronic applications. Growth of functional oxide thin films (TiSrO3, La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, La2CoMnO6…) intended for applications on magnetoelectronic devices, such as magnetic tunneling junctions and spin filters, and with special interest on interface related phenomena.                                                                                     "]
["Lluis Balcells Argemí","Researcher"," INSTITUT DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, ICMAB-CISC, CAMPUS UAB, 08193 BELLATERRA (BARCELONA)","balcells@icmab.es","CIENCIA DE MATERIALS","Department of Materials Science INSTITUT DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, ICMAB-CSIC","Nanoscience and nanotechnology","Magnetic nanoparticles : The research of the group faces the most relevant basic and applied aspects of preparation of metallic and oxide nanoparticles with core-shell structure by using physical methods. In addition, we also explore potential technological applications of these nanoparticles, mostly in biotechnology and biomedicine.                                   "]
["Annapaola Migani","Researcher","ICN2 building, Campus de la UAB\n08193 Bellaterra","annapaola.migani@cin2.es","Química","Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia","Theory And Simulation Group","The project will be carried out within the Theory and Simulation Group, and will address the theoretical study of the structure, electronic and spectroscopic properties of organo-metallic perovskites for photovoltaic applications. The workhorse approach will be DFT methodology, including both relativistic effects (spin-orbit coupling) and electronic correlation (GW approximation). The project will target the interpretation of spectroscopic experiments by the ICN2’s Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group. The project is enclosed within the energy thematic research area of the ICN2 institute."]
["Josep Nogués / Borja Sepúlveda","Teaching staff / Researcher","ICREA i CSIC Campus UAB, ICN2 building, 08193, Bellaterra","josep.nogues@icn.cat, borja.sepulveda@cin2.es","Nanotechnology","Magnetic Nanostructures Group/ Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)","Theragnostic magnetic and magneto-plasmonic nanostructures ","The PhD project will be focused on the rational design and nanofabrication of multifunctional magnetic and magnetoplasmonic nanostructured materials, and in their biomedical application for advanced diagnosis and targeted thermal treatments. The goal will be the development of nanostructures that are compatible with optical, magnetic resonance and X-Ray computed tomography imaging, which will also be used as nanoheat sources for localized photo-thermal and/or magneto-thermal therapies. The multi-functionality of the proposed nanostructures will be exploited as well to create portable and magnetically actuated nanobiosensors for magnetic cell sorting to detect, identify and capture circulating tumour cells."]
["Josep Fontcuberta","Researcher","Institut de Ciència Materials Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain","fontcuberta@icmab.cat","Materials Science","Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures\nhttp://www.icmab.es/mulfox/\n\n","Light harvesting by ferroic materials and polar heterostructures","Photovoltaic devices are used to capture visible light and transform it into electriciticy. This requires light absorption and the presence of an electric field to drive the light-generated photocarriers towards the electrodes. Polar fields in ferroelectric materials and other polar heterostructure can eficiently contribute to this effect thus allowing to obatin large photovoltaic effects.  The project aims to build such nanomaterials by using most advanced preparation  tools and intensive electroptic and microstructural analysis.  Some recent works can be fiund at our web site: http://www.icmab.es/mulfox/ "]
["Josep Fontcuberta","Researcher","Institut de Ciència Materials Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain","fontcuberta@icmab.cat","Materials Science","Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures\nhttp://www.icmab.es/mulfox/\n\n","Magnetoresistance in non magnetic materials: a route towards  new spin devices.","Electrons  have charge and spin. Electronic industry exploits electron charge and magnetic sensors and magnetic memories exploit simultaneously  the electron spin and charge. However, moving electrical charges implies energy dissipation. A better solution for efficient data stiorage and computing  would  be the use of pure spin currents. In this project the candidate will learn about these most davanced , technologies, the appropriate materias and the way we produce and test them. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the optical testing of magnetic properties."]
["Florencio Sanchez","Researcher","Institut de Ciència Materials Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain","fsanchez@icmab.es","Materials Science","Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures\nhttp://www.icmab.es/mulfox/\n\n","Ferroelectric films on Silicon","The integration of ferroelectric oxides with Silicon is crucial for its use in microelectronics. The PhD thesis will address the fabrication of epitaxial BaTiO3 films, a lead-free room temperature ferroelectric, on buffered Si(001) wafers and membranes using pulsed laser deposition. The project includes two main objectives. First, the influence of different epitaxial buffer layers (YSZ, SrTiO3, etc), bottom electrode (LaNiO3, SrRuO3, etc) and its thickness on the structural and electrical properties of BaTiO3 will be determined. Second, two specific functional heterostructures for novel devices will be fabricated and characterized: i) Metal-Ferroelectric-Insulator-Semiconductor (MFeIS) and ii) tunnel electroresistance structures. The fabrication of both is challenging, requiring ultrathin buffers the former and ultrathin BaTiO3 the later. The PhD student will be trained in the use of advanced fabrication and characterization tools. "]
["Pablo O. Vaccaro","Researcher","Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain","pvaccaro@icmab.es","Materials Science","Nanostructured Materials/Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)","Tailoring electronic and phononic properties of nanomaterials: Towards improved thermoelectricity","Research and development of thermoelectric materials based on strained germanium/silicon nanostructures. Epitaxial growth of germanium/silicon nanostructures on silicon wafers. Design, simulation and fabrication of thermoelectric generators (TEG) in clean room environment."]
["Benjamín Martínez","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","benjamin.martinez@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Magnetic Materials and Functional Oxides)","Advanced functionalizitaion and characterization of transition metal oxides.","The proposed reasearch is centered at the preparation of different magnetic transition metal oxides in nanoforms (nanoparticles and/or thin films). The main goal is to explore new fundamental phenomena and to integrate them in functional devices. Prepared systems will be characterized by advanced techniques (synchrotron diffraction/spectroscopic, scanning probe microscopies and magnetoelectronics), and the obtained results correlated with their magnetic and transport properties. "]
["Dino Tonti","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra","dino@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Chemistry","Materials for energy","Several electrochemical energy storage technologies are being intensively studied to overcome the cost and energy limitations of Li-ion batteries for large scale applications like electric vehicles and grid storage. Many of these technologies, like supercapacitors, redox, metal-air and Li-S batteries require an advanced design and control of the architecture of carbon-based electrodes. The present work will address the control of the surface chemistry and the morphology of different carbonaceous composites in order to achieve fast kinetics, high energy density and a stable electrode-electrolyte interface.\n\nMain tasks:\n\n• preparation of electrode composites from carbon-based materials such as graphene, nanotubes and xerogels\n\n• characterization by spectroscopic and textural techniques, such as electron microscopy, N2 adsorption, infrared spectroscopy, thermal analysis \n\n• assembly of batteries and study by multiple electrochemical techniques"]
["Vicenç Méndez","Tenure-track lecturer","Dept. de Fisica. Grup de Física Estadística. Facultat de Ciències. Edifici C\nCampus de Bellaterra\n08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","vicenc.mendez@uab.cat","Física","Department of Physics","Stochastic and mesoscopic description of transport processes and population dynamics ","Stochastic dynamics of populations, epidemics and ecological invasions. Theoretical methods, simulations and applications"]
["Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres","Teaching staff","ICN2 building, Campus de la UAB\n08193 Bellaterra","clivia.sotomayor@icn.cat","Física?\nCiencias de Materiales?","Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia","Nanometrology","Implementation of subwavelength diffraction method for optical inspection in real time and on-line of printed/deposited lines and circuitries with sub-200 nm features. Development of software modules capable of tracking on-line the optical properties of the patterned surfaces, analysing the outcome and giving feedback to the software controlling the production chain.\n"]
["Arantzazu Gonzalez Campo","Researcher","CSIC-ICMAB (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona)  Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Phone: +34 935 801 853 - 243 (extension) Fax: +34 935 805 729 ","agonzalez@icmab.es","Materials Science ","Department of Materials Science (Molecular and Supramolecular Materials / ICMAB)","Stimuli Responsive Materials on Surfaces","TITLE: \"Preparation and Immobilization of Responsive Materials  on Surfaces\".  DESCRIPTION: The student will be instructed on how to (i) prepare supramolecular organic frameworks; (ii) immobilitzation of organic frameworks on surfaces; (iii) utilization of nanofabrication techniques like microcontact printing; (iv) utilization of supramolecular chemistry to include and used nanovalves in the organic frameworks to get responsive materials  (v) characterization of the systems by different techniques such as AFM, SEM, optical microscope. (vi) application of the final materials/nanodevices in nanoscience and nanotechnology"]
["Riccardo Rurali","Researcher and adjunct lecturer ","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","rrurali@icmab.es","Materials Science / Physics","Department of Materials Science (Theory and Simulation of Materials, ICMAB-CSIC)","Theory and simulation of the behaviour of materials / Materials physics I","THERMAL RETIFICATION AT THE NANOSCALE - The goal of this project is providing a theoretical framework aimed at understanding and controlling the manipulation of heat flux within semiconducting nanowires. The student will perform quantum numerical simulations in order to devise realistic approaches for the engineering of a nanoscale thermal diode, the fundamental building block of phononics. In electronics information is transferred with charge carriers, whose motion can be easily controlled with external fields. This is not the case of phononics, where phonons —the basic particles that carry heat— have no mass or charge: this is why we live in a world of electronic devices and heat is normally regarded as a source of loss. The goal of this project is reversing this viewpoint and move to a new paradigm where heat can be actively used to transfer energy, thus information, in a controllable way. Nanowires present multiple advantages over bulk materials to achieve heat rectification, mostly due to their reduced dimensionality and to the flexibility given by the chemistry of growth to yield structures that appear to be suited for these applications. This approach allows envisaging a truly zero-power analog of electronics, as in our world heat is indeed ubiquitous and phononics circuits will effectively need no power supply. Additionally, learning how to modulate the heat flow will have also important consequences in conventional electronics —where heat dissipation at the nanoscale is a major issue— or in devising efficient thermoelectric materials —where materials with low thermal conductivities must be engineered"]
["Anna Roig","Researcher and teaching staff","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, www.icmab.es.Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, www.icmab.es/nn","roig@icmab.es","Materials Science Program","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC","Biomaterials","Engineering novel magnetic nano-biomaterials to address tissue repair guided by angiogenesis. Devolopping new biomaterials consisting of polymeric biodegradable and biocompatible nanocapsules labeled with magnetic nanoparticles and fluorescent tags allowing magnetic guidance or retention, in vivo imaging to track the products and controlled released kinetics of the encapsulated proteins. "]
["Anna Laromaine\nAnna Roig","Researcher and teching staff","Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), www.icmab.es.Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, www.icmab.es/nn","alaromaine@icmab.es\nroig@icmab.es","Materials Science Program","Department of Materials Science (ICMAB-CSIC)","Biomaterials","Combination of nanoparticles and bacterial cellulose films to produce stimuli responsive biomaterials:  Stimuli- responsive biomaterials are interesting for biomedical applications, i.e. controlled drug delivery, bioengineering or tissue engineering. These \"smart\" materials should respond to single or multiple stimuli from their environment, and bacterial cellulose films in combination with nanoparticles show high potential in this area. The PhD thesis will develop a \"smart\" material which their response will be controlled by the nanoparticles present in the material. Synthesis using different approaches, characterization and their application for biomedical applications will be evaluated. "]
["Carmen Ocal Garcia","Researcher","Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)","cocal@icmab.es","MATERIALS SCIENCE","Department of Materials Science (INSTITUT DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, ICMAB-CSIC)","NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY. ORGANIC MATERIALS AND LOCAL PROPERTIES","The purpose of the PhD project is studying a variety of low dimensional molecular systems with great interest for practical applications, concentrating on charge transfer effects and photo-excitation processes. Organic molecules with specific optoelectronic characteristics will be attached to surfaces and different experimental techniques (from scanning probes to synchrotron light source techniques) will be used to explore their unique properties upon irradiation with light. Physical mechanisms such photogeneration and photoinduced electrical transport in donor/acceptor junctions will be investigated. Special attention will be dedicated to photoexcitation in chiral systems, with the possibility to use circularly polarized light. Recent references of our group in the field: T.J. Roussel, E.Barrena, C.Ocal, J.Faraudo.Nanoscale. 2014, 21, 7991; M. Aghamohammadi, A. Fernández, M. Schmidt, A. Pérez-Rodríguez, A.R.Goñi, J. Fraxedas, G. Sauthier, M. Paradinas, C. Ocal,  E. Barrena. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 4833; N. Crivillers, M. Mas-Torrent, C. Simao, M. Paradinas, C. Munuera, C. Ocal, S.T. Bromley, C.Rovira, J. Veciana\nArchitecture and Design of Molecule Logic Gates and Atom Circuits, Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines\n© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33137-4 6 \n\n\n "]
["Mariona Coll","Researcher","ICMAB-CSIC, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain","mcoll@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures /ICMAB-CSIC)","Atomic layer deposition of complex functional oxides for materials energy applications","Atomic Layer Deposition of Novel Ferroelectric Perovskite Oxides for Cost-Effective Solar Cell Devices"]
["Gervasi Herranz","Researcher","Institut de Ciència Materials Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain","gherranz@icmab.cat","Materials Science","Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures\nhttp://www.icmab.es/mulfox/\n\n","Electric and Magnetic Control of Plasmons for Information Technologies","Today there is a huge interest to integrate light into integrated circuits. Light is interesting, because it offers remarkable properties, such as large bandwidth and fast operation speeds. However, overcoming diffraction limit is required to integrate light into circuits. Plasmons are a way around, since they confine the energy of light to the nanoscale, paving the way to the exploitation of light at small scales. Recently, we have demonstrated the microscopic mechanisms that undelying the enhanced magneto-optical responses boosted by plasmons [1]. In this project we aim at the study of plasmons in uncommon media, including magnetic and ferroelectric dielectrics.  The objective is to exploit plasmons as conveyors of the information stored in magnetic/ferroelectric bits. The student will be trained in advanced optical characterization, inlcuding optical spectroscopy in the near IR -VIS and diffraction-limited optical imaging.                                                                                                  [1] M. Rubio-Roy et al., Langmuir, 28, 9010 (2012), O. Vlasin et al., Physical Review Applied 2, 054003 (2014)"]
["Gervasi Herranz","Científic Titular CSIC","Institut de Ciència Materials Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain","gherranz@icmab.cat","Materials Science","http://www.icmab.es/mulfox/","Graphene-like oxide quantum wells","The world has witnessed last years the enormous potential of 2D systems for electronic applications. After the most celebrated graphene, other 2D compounds have also emerged. In this context, recent theoretical works point at oxide quantum wells with honeycomb-like structure as novel 2D platforms, with intriguing complex electronic phases, involving magnetism and ordered correlated states. Taking advantage of our understanding of oxide interfaces [1], here we propose the growth and characterization of atomically thin oxide quantum wells that emulate the honeycomb symmetry of graphene. The student will be trained in advanced fabrication by state-of-the-art pulsed laser deposition as well as structural and functional characterization, including advanced XRD analysis, low-temperature transport and spectroscopies using synchrotron light.     [1] V. Laukhin et al., Physical Review Letters 109, 226601 (2012); D. Pesquera et al., Nature Communications 3, 1189 (2012); D. Pesquera et al., Physical Review Letters 113, 156802 (2014)            "]
["Núria Aliaga Alcalde","Researcher","CSIC-ICMAB (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona)  Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Phone: +34 935 801 853 - 243 (extension) Fax: +34 935 805 729 ","nuria.aliaga@icrea.cat","Materials Science ","Department of Materials Science (Molecular and Supramolecular Materials / ICMAB)","Functional Materials and studies on Surfaces","TITLE: \"Design of Novel Functional Molecular Materials and their Deposition on Surfaces and Nanodevices\". DESCRIPTION: The student will be instructed on how to (i) synthesize organic conjugated molecules and coordination compounds using 3d and 4f metals; (ii) characterize them by using standard (IR, NMR, EA,...) and specialized (fluorescent, magnetic, electrochemical ) techniques; (iii) work on surfaces: functionalization and deposition of the final species; (iv) work on nano-devices: deposition of species on the final devices and (v) application of the final materials/nanodevices in nanoscience and nanotechnology. "]
["Antoni Rosell-Mele","Researcher","Edifici Z  - Carrer de les Columnes\nCampus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia (Spain)","antoni.rosell@uab.cat","Environmental Science an Technology","Insitute of Environmental Science and Technology","Study of climatic and oceanic processes","Application of isotopic techniques to environmental forensics: sources and sinks of anthropogenic pollutants in remote environments"]
["Mario Giampietro","Professor d’Investigació ICREA ","ICTA-ICP, Edifici Z, Office Z/103, Carrer de les columnes, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E- 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès - Barcelona) ","Mario.Giampietro@uab.cat","Environmental Sciences","Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)","Energy Analysis; Multi-Criteria Analysis of Sustainability; Integrated Assessment","To undertake National, Sectorial and Provincial level energy Analysis in China. To investigate Chinese energy efficiency policies and compare European/Chinese policy impacts, tradeoffs and effectiveness "]
["Martí Gich Garcia","Researcher and temporary lecturer","Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spainwww.icmab.es;  Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, www.icmab.es/nn","mgich@icmab.es","Materials Science Program","Department of Materials Science (ICMAB-CSIC)","Materials for Information Technologies and electronics","Voltage controlled optical diodes based in multiferroic ε-Fe2O3 \nThe aim of the PhD is developing a voltage-controlled optical diode based in thin films of ε-Fe2O3. This oxide is specially suitable to achieve this goal because it is a room temperature multiferroic (1) in which coexist permanent magnetization M and dielectric polarization P mutually perpendicular that are expected to lead to the emergence of non-reciprocal effects: a different absorption coefficient for the light propagating parallel or antiparallel to T=PxM. The light propagation in one direction could thus be controlled by switching P with a small voltage.(1): M. Gich et al Advanced Materials 26 (2014) 4645. \n"]
["Josep Ros Badosa / Jordi Garcia-Anton","Full professor / Tenure-track lecturer","Department of Chemistry, Edifici C, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)","josep.ros@uab.cat jordi.garciaanton@uab.cat","Materials Science                  Chemistry","Department of Chemistry","Nanostructured Materials for Energy","Study of the applicability of inorganic nanoparticles (transition metals and oxydes) for energy challenges: from water splitting to superconductivity.                        Projects: NMP-2011-LARGE-5 and ​CTQ2011-26440"]
["Iveta Nakládalová (Calahorra Martínez)","Scholarship holder","Departamento de Filología Española y Teoría de la Literatura, edificio B, Facultad de Letras, campus UAB, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), 08193, Spain","ivetanak@gmail.com","Doctoral Programme in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature ","Department of Spanish Studies and Theory of Literature (Seminario de Poética del Renacimiento)","Comparative Literature, Theory of Literature","Comparative literature (European/Chinese); Early Modern poetics (literary theory), Early Modern censorship; Utopia"]
["Miquel Angel Senar","Full professor","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","miquelangel.senar@uab.es","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High performance computing and bioinformatics","Enabling Java for Emerging Technologies in High Performance Computing"]
["Albert Esteve Palós","Researcher","Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics. Carrer de Can Altayó, Ed.E2. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)","aesteve@ced.uab.es","Demography","Demographic Studies CenterCentre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)","International immigration and family in Spain","Study of couple formation among immigrants in Spain, simultaneously considering: i) initial conditions and family situation of immigrants, before immigration, ii) immigrants' individual characteristics and background in the country of destination; iii) family and economic ties with the country of origin; iv)structure of the group in the country of destination; v)family patterns of the countries of origin."]
["Albert Esteve Palós","Researcher","Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics. Carrer de Can Altayó, Ed.E2. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)","aesteve@ced.uab.es","Demography","Demographic Studies Center/Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)","Towards a unified analysis of world population: family patterns in multilevel perspective","Development of conceptual and analytic instruments to establish a formal link between the macro level and the micro level in demographic research, with an application to the study of family-formation patterns worldwide."]
["Carlos Barcia","Researcher","Institute of Neuroscience. Lab M2-107, Faculty of Medicine, Bellaterra, 08193, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain","carlos.barcia@uab.cat","Neuroscience","Institute of Neuroscience","Neuroimmunity in neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease as a paradigm. Study of glia-neuron interactions to control neurodegeneration.","We are interested in exploring the mechanisms that drive the motility and polarization of microglial cells towards the establishment of cell-to-cell gliaptic contacts, by using models of neuro-degeneration in vivo and in vitro. The outcome of this research will be crucial to define new specific targets for reducing microglial activation for therapeutic purposes in neurodegenerative diseases. We are specially focused in Parkinson’s disease models. Candidates may be interested in microscopy and imaging."]
["Jose Luis Garcia-Muñoz","Researcher and teaching staff","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona - CSIC\nCampus de la UAB. E-08193 Bellaterra. Spain.\n\n","garcia.munoz@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Crystallography of magnetic and electronic oxides and surfaces / Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC))","Crystallography of magnetic and electronic materials","Preparation (single-crystal growth, thin films by PLD or powders), structural and magnetic crystallography of new functional magnetic oxides with strong spin-latttice coupling (magnetoelectric, multiferroic or magnetoresistive). Specialization in advanced crystallographic characterization using X-ray synchrotron and neutron diffraction techniques in european large installations (ESRF, ILL, ALBA, etc..). "]
["Imma Ratera Bastardas ","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","iratera@icmab.es","Materials Science (Chemistry Department)","Department of Chemistry (Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (www.icmab.es/nanomol) ICMAB-CSIC)","Molecular Multifunctional Materials for Biological Applications: Dynamic molecular bio-interfaces for controlled enviroments for cell guidance","Dynamic molecular bio-interfaces for controlled enviroments for cell guidance: Cellular morphogenesis is orchestrated by multifaceted signaling pathways of the surrounding environment, which enable cells to differentiate. The work will consist in the modification of surfaces with molecular and bio-nanomaterials to control the cell-material interface for cell guidance studies. \nTowards this aim , the student will use electroactive molecular self-assembly monolayers (SAMs) as dynamic, model substrates to trigger the organization of growth factors in a biomimetic way, to stimulate the spatial and temporal cues of the natural microenviroment.\nUsing surface characterization techniques like AFM, electrochemical SPR or fluorescence confocal microscopy, or SEM  the role of the student in the project will consist to find effective ways to anchor (by specific self assembly monolayers, etc…) and pattern (by microcontact printing or other lithographic techniques) the biomolecules or bio-nanoparticles onto surfaces to stimulate cell proliferation, differentiation and motility.\n"]
["Gerard Tobias Rossell","Researcher","Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, SPAIN","gerard.tobias@icmab.es","Materials Science","Department of Materials Science (Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC))","Solid State Chemistry","\"Preparation of novel graphene-polymer nanocomposites\". Novel graphene composites with improved electrical, thermal and mechanical properties will be prepared and characterized. "]
["Mª Margarita Julià Sapé","Research assistant","Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologica i Biomedicina (IBB), Campus de Bellaterra\nFacultat de Medicina\nEdifici M\n08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)\n","margarita.julia@uab.cat","Programa de Doctorat en Bioquímica, Biologia Molecular i Biomedicina","Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology","Search for biomarkers of response to therapy for brain tumors in vivo molecular imaging by NMR","Multimodal diagnosis: multivariate analysis of clinical magnetic spectroscopy data of patients of brain tumours and brain pathologies"]
["Antonio Espinosa","Researcher","Carrer de les Sitges. School of Engineering. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés.","antoniomiguel.espinosa@uab.cat","Computer Science","Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems","High performance computing and bioinformatics","Bioinformatics in the Big Data era: challenges on data management problems in bioinformatic workflow engines."]
["Daniel Devolder","Researcher and adjunct lecturer","Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics. Carrer de Can Altayó, Ed.E2. Campus UAB. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)","ddevolder@ced.uab.es","Demography","Demographic Studies Center/Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)","Study of fertility by parity: methodology and estimators","Study of parity-specific fertility indicators that are an alternative to the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in order to analyse the determining factors and the consequences of variations in average maternity age, a key factor in explaining the level of primo-fertility and the variations in the parity-specific fertility indicators."]

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