Theses 2022

– Antonio Jesús Carrasco Muñoz
– Greta Gaiani
– Mohammad Shaiful Alam Amin
– Joshua David Selvaraj
– Ximena Verónica Jaramillo Fierro
– Venkata Subba Rao Mandava
– Oleg Dubov
– Alberto Tampieri
– Jorge Mellado Carretero
– Edilene Pereira Andrade
– Laura Andrea Uribe Uribe
– Zaida Nair Herrero Medina
– Alireza Zare
– Deepika
– Anna Barbara Orlowska
– Mariacristina Turino
– Adil Ait Yazza

ANTONIO JESÚS CARRASCO MUÑOZ
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Joan Rosell
TITLE OF THESIS: “PRODUCTION OF HOMOGENEOUS PARTICLES BY CONTROLLED NEUTRALIZATION OF ELECTROSPRAYS”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Jose Luis Castillo [President] (UNED, Madrid)
– Dr. Ricard Garcia Valls [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Luewton Lemos Felicio Agostinho [Vocal] (NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 13th January 2022
TIME: 11.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

GRETA GAIANI
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Mònica Campàs, Dr. Ciara K. O’Sullivan and Dr. Carles Alcaraz
TITLE OF THESIS: “DEVELOPMENT OF BIOANALYTICAL DEVICES FOR THE DETECTION OF CIGUATOXINS AND THE CIGUATOXIN PRODUCING GENERA GAMBIERDISCUS AND FUKUYOA”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ and IRTA
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Wayne Richard Litaker [President] (National Centers for Coastal Oceans Science, Center for Fisheries and Habitat Research, USA)
– Dr. Miriam Jauset Rubio [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Francisco Rodríguez Hernández [Vocal] (Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Spain)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 24th February 2022
TIME: 15.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

MOHAMMAD SHAIFUL ALAM AMIN
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Josep Font
TITLE OF THESIS: “CARBON-BASED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS FOR THE ANAEROBIC DECOLORIZATION OF DYES”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Azael Fabregat Llangostera [President] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Albert Guisasola Canudas [Secretary] (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra)
– Dr. Natalia Soledad Inchaurrondo [Vocal] (Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 17th March 2022
TIME: 12.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ

JOSHUA DAVID SELVARAJ
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Jordi Pallarès and Dr. Anton Vernet
TITLE OF THESIS: “EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLOW IN A LID-DRIVEN CYLINDRICAL CAVITY”
DEPARTMENT: DEM
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Robert Castilla López [President] (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa)
– Dr. Alexandre Fabregat Tomàs [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Paolo Juan Sassi Arobba [Vocal] (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 24th March 2022
TIME: 12.30h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Microsoft Teams

XIMENA VERÓNICA JARAMILLO FIERRO
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Francisco Medina and Dr. Silvia González
TITLE OF THESIS: “SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS OF ZNTIO3 FOR THE ADSORPTION AND PHOTOCATALYTIC REMOVAL OF METHYLENE BLUE DYE”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Francisco López Bonillo [President] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Francisco Fernández Martínez [Secretary] (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid)
– Dr. Luis Miguel Villamagua [Vocal] (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Tuesday, 29th March 2022
TIME: 17.30h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Microsoft Teams
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

VENKATA SUBBA RAO MANDAVA
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Francesc Giralt and Dr. Joan Herrero
TITLE OF THESIS: “WAKE BEHIND A DISCONTINUOUS CYLINDER: UNVEILING THE ROLE OF THE LARGE SCALES IN WAKE GROWTH AND ENTRAINMENT”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Josep Anton Ferré i Vidal [President] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Josep Maria Bergadà Granyó [Secretary] (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa)
– Dr. Joan Llorens Llacuna [Vocal] (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 28th April 2022
TIME: 16.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Seminar Room 111, Mechanical Engineering Department

OLEG DUBOV
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Josep Font Capafons
TITLE OF THESIS: “SEMI-AMORPHOUS CARBON NITRIDE FILMS DERIVED FROM SOLUBLE POLYMERIC PRECURSORS: TOWARDS MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELECTROCHEMICAL COATINGS WITH ENHANCED STABILITY”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Carlos Enrique Aleman Llanso [President] (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
– Dr. Alex Fragoso Sierra [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Javier Pérez-Ramírez [Vocal] (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Monday, 16th May 2022
TIME: 13.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ

ALBERTO TAMPIERI
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Francesc Medina
TITLE OF THESIS: “CATALYTIC ALDOL CONDENSATIONS OF BIO-DERIVED ALDEHYDES AND KETONES”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Didier Tichit [President] (Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France)
– Dr. Sandra Contreras Iglesias [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Stefania Albonetti [Vocal] (Universitá di Bologna, Italy)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 19th May 2022
TIME: 10.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus (ETSEQ) & Microsoft Teams
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

JORGE MELLADO CARRETERO
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Sílvia de Lamo and Dr. Diego García
TITLE OF THESIS: “EVALUATION OF PORTABLE VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY EQUIPMENT COMBINED WITH MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS FOR FOOD APPLICATIONS”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Dolores Pérez Marín [President] (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain)
– Dr. Anna Grazia Mignani [Secretary] (CNR-Institute of Applied Physics ‘Nello Carrara’, Italy)
– Dr. Daniel Cozzolino [Vocal] (University of Queensland, Australia)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Tuesday, 7th June 2022
TIME: 09.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Microsoft Teams
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

EDILENE PEREIRA ANDRADE
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Laureano Jiménez, Dr. Assumpció Anton and Dr. August Bonmati
TITLE OF THESIS: “ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS DUE TO THE INCLUSION OF NOVEL SOLUTIONS FOR NUTRIENT RECOVERY: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRICULTURE”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Giuliana d’Imporzano [President] (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy)
– Dr. Jordi Doltra Bregón [Secretary] (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Girona)
– Dr. Elsa Varela Redondo [Vocal] (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia , Solsona)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Friday, 10th June 2022
TIME: 11.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

LAURA ANDREA URIBE URIBE
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Alex Fragoso
TITLE OF THESIS: “CYCLODEXTRIN-BASED SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS OF EMERGING GUESTS WITH PHARMACEUTICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. María Icíar Vélaz Rivas [President] (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
– Dr. Pascal Blondeau [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Francesco Trotta [Vocal] (Università di Torino, Italy)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Monday, 27th June 2022
TIME: 10.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

ZAIDA NAIR HERRERO MEDINA
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Ioanis Katakis
TITLE OF THESIS: “STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE CELL-TO-ELECTRODE ELECTRON TRANSFER OF BIOANODES FOR THEIR APPLICATION IN CELLULAR-BASED BIOPHOTOVOLTAICS”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Alex Fragoso Sierra [President] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Fréderic Barriere [Secretary] (Université de Rennes 1, France)
– Dr. Mamas Prodromidis [Vocal] (University of Ioannina, Greece)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Friday, 8th July 2022
TIME: 11.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

ALIREZA ZARE
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Martan Giamberini and Dr. José Antonio Reina
TITLE OF THESIS: “NOVEL POLYMERIC MEMBRANE FOR ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Veronica Ambrogi [President] (Universitá degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy)
– Dr. Xavier Montané Montané [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Bartosz Tylkowski [Vocal] (Eurecat Tarragona)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Tuesday, 12th July 2022
TIME: 11.30h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

DEEPIKA
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Vikas Kumar, Dr. Marta Schuhmacher and Dr. Raju Prasad Sharma
TITLE OF THESIS: “QUANTITATIVE SYSTEMS TOXICOLOGY MODELING FOR NEURONAL ADVERSE OUTCOME”
DEPARTMENT: DEQ
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Robert Barouki [President] (Université Paris Cité, France)
– Dr. Maria Teresa Colomina Fosch [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Antonio Hernández Jerez [Vocal] (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Wednesday, 7th September 2022
TIME: 10.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

ANNA BARBARA ORLOWSKA
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Vladmir Baulin
TITLE OF THESIS: “STUDY OF BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS ON IN VITRO AND IN VIVO MODELS”
DEPARTMENT: DQFI
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Mahvash Tavassoli [President] (Kings College London University, UK)
– Dr. Javier Capilla Luque [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Mohammad Al Kobaisi [Vocal] (RMIT University, Australia)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 8th September 2022
TIME: 11.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ
*INTERNATIONAL MENTION

MARIACRISTINA TURINO
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Luca Guerrini and Dr. Ramon Álvarez
TITLE OF THESIS: “ENGINEERING PLASMONIC NANOMATERIALS FOR SERS APPLICATIONS”
DEPARTMENT: DQFI
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Miguel Ángel Correa Duarte [President] (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
– Dr. Eduard Llobet Valero [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Vincenzo Giannini [Vocal] (Institute for the Structure of Matter, Madrid)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 3rd November 2022
TIME: 10.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Microsoft Teams

ADIL AIT YAZZA
SUPERVISORS: Dr. Francico Javier Andrade and Dr. Pascal Blondeau
TITLE OF THESIS: “NEW ORGANIC ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSING PLATFORMS FOR THE POINT-OF-NEED”
DEPARTMENT: DAQO
NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF MEMBERS PhD COMMITTEE: – Dr. Arben Merkoçi [President] (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Bellaterra)
– Dr. Beatriz Prieto Simón [Secretary] (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
– Dr. Jesús Alberto Escarpa Miguel [Vocal] (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid)
DATE OF DEFENSE: Thursday, 22nd December 2022
TIME: 12.00h
ROOM OF DEFENSE: Sala de Graus, ETSEQ