News

A study by researchers Juan Sánchez-Baena, Ferran Mazzanti and Jordi Boronat, from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, together with researcher Raúl Bombı́n, from the University of Bordeaux, shows for the first time the creation and destruction of a quantum supersolid by heating a dipolar system, initially in a superfluid phase without spatial order. The work illustrates the connection between the counterintuitive appearance of a solid by heating, exclusive to the quantum realm, and the expected phenomenology of fusion when the temperature is raised

Benet Eiximeno Franch defended his thesis co-directed by Oriol Lehmkuhl Barba and Ivette Maria Rodríguez Pérez on October 31, 2025 at Campus Nor. The thesis is titled "High performance computing and artificial intelligence for dimensionality reduction of turbulent flows" and investigates how large-scale artificial intelligence can help compress aerodynamic simulation data to better understand chaotic turbulence phenomena

In a joint project between the research groups GCM (Department of Physics) and NEMEN (Department of Chemical Engineering), PhD student Maahin Mirzay Shahim, from South Azerbaijan, Iran, has developed new catalytic materials by combining glassy alloys and cerium oxide in her PhD defended on December 16 and directed by Eloi Pineda and Lluis Soler

David Conesa defended his thesis “Empirical and Structural Mathematical Models for Biological Systems: Case Studies in COVID-19 and Cardiac Dynamics” in the EPSEB in Campus Sud on the 18th of December. Under the supervision of Dr. Enric Alvarez Lacalle, the thesis develops different empirical, predictive, and mechanistic mathematical models to study and analyze two branches of biology: epidemiology in the context of a pandemic such as COVID-19, and cardiac dynamics.

We are pleased to announce the Workshop and School on “Frontiers in Ultracold Quantum Gases”, part of the XLI Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània – Josep Miquel Vidal and supported by the Catalonia Quantum Academy, which will take place on 10–12 June 2026 at the Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, in Mahón, Menorca (Spain).

During the research days of the Department of Physics of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, the responsible committee has awarded two PhD students to their research.