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Jaume Ojer Ferrer defended his thesis co-supervised by Romualdo Pastor Satorras and Michele Starnini on July 30 at Campus Nord. Entitled "The Effect of Social Interactions on Collective Behavior: From Flocking to Opinion Polarization", the thesis explores how social interactions between individuals give rise to different types of collective behavior that are observed in nature and society, in particular the dynamics of flocking in animals and the polarization of opinions in humans

A study led by researchers from the Fluid Dynamics and Geophysical and Technological Applications group (DF-GeoTech) at UPC presents a new methodology to calculate rainfall values of hydrological interest across Catalonia

Extension of the High-Connectivity States (HCS) analysis to other databases

esearchers of IONHE group have recently published results of the PhD thesis of Roger Curcoll, supervised by Claudia Grossi and Arturo Vargas, within the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics journal on the: 'Estimation of seasonal methane fluxes over a Mediterranean rice paddy area using the Radon Tracer Method (RTM)'

Ramon G. F. Dornelas defended his thesis, co-advised by Jose Eduardo García and José de los Santos Guerra, on July 18th on the Campus Nord. Entitled “Lead-free BaTiO₃-based ferroelectric ceramics for energy storage and related applications”, the thesis focuses on the structural, dielectric, and ferroelectric study of tin-modified BaTiO₃ ceramics, aimed at their application in energy storage and solid-state cooling.

Aida Perramon Malavez defended her thesis co-directed by Clara Prats Soler and Antoni Soriano Arandes on July 16, 2025 at the Baix Llobregat Campus. Titled "Respiratory viruses in childhood: surveillance, analysis, and modelling of their epidemiological dynamics. The case of Catalonia.", the thesis presents the history and evolution of the main respiratory infections in Catalan childhood, from a perspective of dynamic analysis of complex systems and providing tools for monitoring, understanding and predicting these epidemics in Catalonia.

A methodology to quantify multidimensional ideological polarization has been proposed by researchers of the department of Physics.