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Eda Vurgun defended her doctoral tesis entitled “Compact binary millisecond pulsars: X-ray observations and numerical simulations” on November 7, 2024 at the Besòs Campus. The thesis has been co-directed by Domingo García Senz and Manuel Linares Alegret

Anurag Surapaneni defended his thesis supervised by Dr. Daniel Mira on October 30, 2024 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Entitled "Multi-regime combustion modelling in high-fidelity numerical simulations of reacting flows" the thesis focuses on developing high-fidelity numerical combustion models for simulation reacting flow with mixture inhomogeneity and under complex combustion regimes.

The candidate Mehran Nabahat defended his thesis, directed by Eloi Pineda, on October 10, 2024 at the Diagonal Besòs Campus. Entitled "Dynamic Heterogeneity in Metallic Glasses: Study of Structural Relaxation, Aging, and Mechanical Properties of Vit4 alloy", the thesis presents a study of the evolution of the structural dynamics of an alloy in the vitreous state

Homeyra Khaledian defended her thesis, co-supervised by Prof. Xavier Prats and Prof. Jordi Vilà Valls, on September 19, 2024, at the Baix Llobregat Campus in Castelldefels. Entitled "Aircraft Trajectory Estimation and Guidance Mode Identification using Bayesian Filtering Techniques", the thesis focuses on real-time aircraft trajectory estimation and real-time guidance mode identification, which are needed for achieving accurate aircraft trajectory prediction.

The student Rathan B. Athota defended his thesis co-supervised by Adeline de Villardi de Montlaur and José I. Rojas Gregorio on September 19 at Campus Nord. The thesis, entitled "Numerical analysis of thermally-driven winds in mountain-valley regions", presents a numerical study of the formation of thermally-driven winds on slopes of mountain-valley systems, using open source computational fluid dynamics software. These winds occur on the aforementioned slopes due to temperature gradients by the lower atmosphere’s diurnal heating-cooling cycle. The results of this research may be interesting for applications in wind energy.

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.