PhD in Physics

Academic year 2025-26

Degree data and benchmarks

Below are the main data and benchmarks, as well as the results of the satisfaction surveys for the degree programme, which are periodically analysed and monitored by the centre administrator, the head of studies and the corresponding quality assurance commissions, with a view to promoting the ongoing improvement of the programme.

 

Satisfaction of groups involved

Satisfaction index

 
2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24
Student satisfaction 3,38 3,09 3,06 3,13 3,15
PDI satisfaction 3,50 3,29 3,13 3,11 3,19
PAS satisfaction 3,00 - - - 3,00

Description

Student, PDI and PAS satisfaction levels are rated on a scale of 1 to 4, where 1 means ‘not at all satisfied’ and 4 means ‘very satisfied’. They are obtained from the following surveys:

  • Survey of student satisfaction with the study programme (yearly)
  • Survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of teaching and research staff (PDI) (yearly)
  • Biennial survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of administrative and service staff (PAS) who have supported undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

 

Survey participation rates

 
2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24
Student participation rate 23 % 21 % 29 % 19 % 20 %
PDI participation rate 33 % 54 % 50 % 51 % 49 %
PAS participation rate 50 % - - - 47 %

Description

Only the data that meet a double criterion of representativeness have been considered valid: on one hand, reaching 4 answered surveys and, on the other hand, that the number of answered surveys is equal to or greater than 15% of the population

Thesis

Link to the institutional repository (DSPACE)

Year Thesis
2025
  • An information-theoretic approach to higher-order Markov processes: Theory and applications
  • Mathematical Analysis of Signed Networks: Structure and Dynamics
  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of coastal Mediterranean ecosystems
2024
  • Active continuity of Hollow-Core Slab structural floors using Iron-based Shape Memory Alloys
  • Aging and memory effects in social and economic dynamics
  • Complex systems perspectives on large-scale weather and climate variability patterns
  • Computing with dynamical systems: From implementations towards novel concepts
  • Information processing with photonic hardware neural networks
  • Neural dynamics and information transmission: from cortical circuits to the hippocampal modelling
  • Nonlinear evolution of torsional Alfvén waves in solar atmospheric flux tubes
  • On the physical nature of chromospheric spicules and coronal rain
  • Optoelectronic Modelling of Perovskite Solar Cells by means of Ray Tracing Techniques
  • Power grid dynamics and stability with a high penetration of renewable energies
  • Theoretical and data-driven models in Ecology
  • Towards a robust assessment of coastal sea levels and wind-waves in the Mediterranean Sea
2023
  • A time-delay reservoir computing neural network based on a single microring resonator with external optical feedback
  • Characterization and simulation of multipartite open quantum systems
  • COASTAL HAZARDS UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE. THE CASE OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS.
  • Complexity in computational sociolinguistics: exploring the interplay between geography, culture and the social fabric
  • Complex Optical Networks based on Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)
  • Diagnosing 3D ocean fine-scale dynamics: towards the integration of models, remote-sensing and in-situ observations through deep-learning and variational approaches
  • Dynamics and Bifurcation Analysis of Mode-Locking in Coupled Optical Micro-Cavities
  • Electronic and topological properties of bilayer graphene nanostructures
  • Exploring ecological and social interactions through the lens of complex systems
  • Generation of stochastic trajectories: Applications to complex systems
  • Novel Strategies for Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches in the Era of the Advanced Detectors
  • Optimal renewable energy deployment scenarios: analysis of climate drivers, demand-meeting and cost-related challenges
  • Research and application in intervening opportunity class models for predicting human mobility
  • Reservoir Computing in Quantum Systems
  • Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
  • Submesoscale fronts and vertical velocities at the sea surface from a Lagrangian perspective in the Western Mediterranean
  • Thermal treatments influence in high temperature shape memory alloys and metamagnetic shape memory alloys
  • Understanding gravitational wave data with Bayesian inference and machine learning
2022
  • Accurate models of gravitational wave signals from precessing black holes.
  • Characterization and forecast of airborne natural radioactivity in Mallorca
  • IMPACTO DE LA ASIMILACIÓN DE OBSERVACIONES COSTERAS EN UN MODELO DE PREDICCIÓN OCEÁNICO DE ALTA RESOLUCIÓN. Impact of the assimilation of coastal observations on high resolution ocean model forecasts
  • Influence of thermal treatments on Ni-Ti-Zr and Ni-Mn-Ga-X High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
  • Lagrangian transport of sinking particles. From theoretical characterization to oceanic applications.
  • Large Eddy Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Turbulent Amplification of the Magnetic Field
  • Revisiting flux-gradient relationships of evapotranspiration, sensible heat and momentum near the ground in complex terrain
2021
  • 3D numerical simulations of oscillations in solar prominences and gravitational instability in threads.
  • ADVANCEMENTS IN MESOSCALE ENSEMBLE PREDICTION STRATEGIES: APPLICATION TO MEDITERRANEAN HIGH-IMPACT WEATHER
  • Development of neuromorphic hardware and non-iterative learning designs for edge computing applications
  • Dynamics of Optical Localized Structures in Passively Mode-Locked Lasers
  • Human mobility: data analysis, theory and models
  • Statistical downscaling of the future climate of Europe: impacts on extreme events and on two strategic sectors (wine grape production and tourism)
  • Study on the role of inhibition on granule cells of the dentate gyrus in the propagation of activity and computation in the hippocampus
  • Surface wave dynamics effects at multiple scales in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Synchronization and collective phenomena in quantum dissipative systems
  • Thermohaline variability and mixing dynamics in the Western Mediterranean deep waters within the Western Mediterranean Transition
2020
  • Gravitational waves from generic binary black holes: From numerical simulations to observational results
  • Image de-noising techniques to improve the observability of oceanic fine-scale dynamics by the SWOT mission
  • Searching for continuous gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO
  • Stochastic binary-state dynamics on complex networks: A theoretical analysis.
  • Study of the Generation of Optical Pulses by Mode-Locking in Semiconductor Lasers for Applications in LiDAR Systems
  • SUBMESOSCALE DYNAMICS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
  • Temporal activity patterns in social dynamics
  • Waveform modelling of Binary Black Holes in the Advanced LIGO era
2019
  • "Active shear strengthening of reinforced concrete beams using Ni-Ti-Nb shape memory alloys"
  • "Photonic Information Processing"
  • A journey across the multiple scales of human mobility
  • Coalescence of Exotic Compact Objects in the new era of gravitational wave astronomy
  • Dynamics of Posidonia oceanica meadows
  • Electrically and thermally driven transport in interacting quantum dot structures
  • GENERATION AND SUPPLY OPTIMISATION OF A POWER PLANT AND DHC NETWORK
  • Gravitational wave data analysis for the advanced detector era
  • Heat and charge transport in nanostructures: interference, AC-driving, environment, and feedback
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF A HIGH-RESOLUTION ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER SYSTEM FOR THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN
  • Lagrangian studies of sedimentation and transport. Impact on marine ecosystems
  • Physical and economic impacts due to sea level changes and wind-waves around the Balearic Islands
  • Study on the general applicability of the collector efficiency model to solar process heat collectors
  • Temporal evolution of MHD waves in solar coronal arcades
2018
  • "Complex dynamics in power grids"
  • Effect of the surface thermal heterogeneities on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
  • High-frequency waves and instabilities in multi-fluid partially ionized solar plasmas
  • The complexity of movement: empirical data analysis and modelling of dynamical processes
2017
  • "Study of the uncertainties of Mediterranean Sea Climate Monitoring and Projections"
  • Spin and charge transport in thermally and ac driven nanodevices
2016
  • Análisis de la energía consumida y las emisiones de CO2 durante el ciclo de vida de edificios del sector terciario y residencial situados en las Islas Baleares"
  • On the complexity of upper ocean mesoscale dynamics