Bianco, Valentino (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Water is commonly associated with life. This substance affects the living beings in countless aspects and length scales, ranging from molecular biology to climatology. Water exhibits a long series of ...
Aznar Palenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the physical mechanisms implicated in the self-assembly and mechanical properties of non-enveloped viral capsids using coarse-grained models. The thesis has been ...
Fröb, Markus Benjamin (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
In this thesis we studied quantum effects in de Sitter space coming from the interaction of gravitons and matter. We derived the lowenergy effective action for metric perturbations which includes ...
Malgaretti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)
In this thesis we characterize the behavior of molecular motors when the properties of the cytoplasm they displace through are not homogeneous or isotropic. Anisotropies in the cytoplasm can be induced, ...
Fernández, Daniel (Fernández Moreno) (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
The purpose of this thesis is to put forth and present a series of new applications of the gauge/string duality to areas of high energy physics and condensed matter physics. The contributions showcased ...