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Jeimmy Nataly Buitrago Leiva defended on September 16 her thesis co-directed by José Adriano Camps Carmona at the North Campus of the UPC. Entitled "Contributions to Eco-Friendly Satellite Lean Design for a Sustainable Space Environment", the thesis presents research that proposes an eco-friendly satellite design and operational approach focused on the integration of space sustainability strategies, adopting practices green within the NewSpace paradigm. For a complete analysis of the whole life process of satellites, it is necessary to integrate ecological and efficient manufacturing features. As a result, this concept is defined to bring together the many efforts for a sustainable space and considers the innovative technologies that need to be created for this type of standard satellites

Researchers from the Physics Department of the UPC present theoretical evidence for the existence of giant photocaloric effects induced by light absorption.

Mowen Li defended his thesis co-supervised by Dr. Adria Rovira Garcia and Prof. Dr. Tianhe Xu on July 31st 2024 at Shandong University, Weihai, China. Entitled "Ground and Marine Resilient Integration Technology of Multi-Source Sensors for Navigation and Positioning", the thesis presents the resilient integration technology of GNSS/INS/LBL/CTD for the ground, marine and seamless Navigation and Positioning

Samuel López Blanco defended his thesis on July 3rd on the Campus Nord. Co-advised by Jose Eduardo García and Diego Alejandro Ochoa, the thesis focuses on using current controlled flash sintering to achieve high-density, microstructure-tailored, lead-free ferroelectric perovskite oxide ceramics with enhanced functional response. This approach opens a new pathway for an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly fabrication of eletronic ceramics

Researchers from the Physics Department of the UPC have analyzed historical observations from the 17th century of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Sarath Radhakrishnan defended his thesis co-supervised by Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba and Daniel Mira Martinez on 10th of June at Campus UPC. Entitled “Non-equilibrium wall modeling in Large Eddy Simulation of high-speed transitional flows“, the thesis presents three novel methodologies for the development of wall models, two of which are based on Machine Learning

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, together with scientists from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), demonstrated an unprecedented reversible modulation of magnetism using low-intensity visible light in artificial multiferroic heterostructures at room temperature. Significant changes in the coercivity and squareness ratio of the hysteresis loops can be light-modulated, encouraging the development of novel low energy-consumption wireless magneto-optical devices