Research
Team
Prof.
Masoller is the coordinator of the group Nonlinear dynamics, Nonlinear Optics and Lasers
(DONLL), recognized by the Agency for Management of University and Research
Grants (AGAUR 2021 SGR 00606).
Ongoing PhD students
Consuelo Rojas, co-supervised with Prof. Ulrich Parlitz (Max
Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany)
PhD topic: Novel data-based indicators
of critical cardiovascular transitions
Funding: Doctoral Network Be-Light,
European Union
Sergi Torres Serra, co-supervised with
Dr. Jordi Tiana (Universitat de Barcelona)
PhD
topic: Synchronization and signal processing with spiking semiconductor lasers
Funding: European Office of Aerospace
Research and Development (EOARD FA8655-24-1-7022)
Berta Martínez Pàmias, co-supervised with
Dr. Miquel Rude (Quside)
PhD topic: Phase dynamics of coupled InP lasers
Funding: Catalan Agency
for Management of University and Research Grants, industrial doctoral program
DI-AGAUR
Juan Gancio, co-supervised with
Dr. Giulio Tirabassi (UPC).
PhD topic: Permutation entropy of multidimensional data
Funding: Catalan Agency
for Management of University and Research Grants, FI-AGAUR.
Alvaro Jose
Zabaleta Ortega, supervised
by Prof. Lev Guzman Vargas
(Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico).
PhD topic:
Análisis Topológico de Datos Aplicado al
Estudio de Interdependencias en Series de Tiempo Complejas.
Funding: Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico.
Former PhD students, thesis, year
14. Maria Duque-Gijon, Experimental
study of the coherence of the light emitted by a semiconductor laser with optical
feedback, 2024
13. Iago Perez, Characteristics,
variability and predictability of long-lived Rossby Wave Packets in Austral
summer, 2023
12. Riccardo Silini, Causal
inference and forescasting methods for climate data
analysis, 2022
11. Maria Masoliver, Neuronal
encoding and transmission of weak periodic signals, 2020
10. Pablo Amil, Machine
learning methods for the characterization and classification of complex data,
2020
9. Donatus Halpaap, Experimental
study of speckle generated by semiconductor light sources: application in
double pass imaging, 2019
8. Dario Zappala,
Hilbert
analysis of air temperature dynamics, 2019
7. Carlos Quintero-Quiroz, Temporal
correlations and dynamical transitions in semiconductor lasers with optical
feedback, 2017
6. Ignacio Deza, Climate networks
constructed by using information-theoretic measures and ordinal time-series
analysis, 2015
5. Giulio Tirabassi, Disentangling
climate interactions and inferring tipping points by using complex networks,
2015
4. Taciano Sorrentino, Experimental
and numerical study of the symbolic dynamics of modulated semiconductor lasers
with optical feedback, 2015
3. Andres Aragoneses, Experimental
study of feedback-induced dynamics in semiconductor lasers: from symbolic
analysis to subwavelength position sensing, 2014
2. Sandro Perrone,
Exploiting
nonlinearity and noise in optical tweezers and semiconductor lasers: from
resonant damping to stochastic logic gates and extreme pulses, 2014
1. Jordi Zamora-Munt, Nonlinear
and stochastic dynamics of semiconductor lasers: modulation, transient dynamics
and synchronization, 2011
Postdocs (year, present institution)
Bruno Boaretto (2024-2025, Universidade Federal
de São Paulo, Brazil)
Giulio Tirabassi (2021-2023, Universitat de
Girona, Spain)
Jordi Tiana-Alsina (2015-2020, Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain)
Carlos Quintero-Quiroz (2017-2019, Data Scientist)
Laura Carpi
(2016, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Andres Aragoneses (2015-2016, Whitman College, USA)
Jose M. Aparicio Reinoso (2015)
Jordi Zamora-Munt (2013)
Cristian Bonatto (2011, Universidade Federal
do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Visiting students (institution, year)
Raul Palma (PhD student, Instituto de Fisica
Teorica, São Paulo State University –UNESP, Brazil,
Autumn 2022-Spring 2023)
Alex Sander de Oliveira Toledo (PhD student, Centro Federal de Educacion
Tecnologica de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Spring 2022)
Concetta Barcellona (PhD student, Universita degli Studi de Catania, Italy,
Spring 2019)
Qiao Wenzuo (Undergrad student, Beijing Institute of Technology,
China, Spring 2019)
Fabian Reyes Manzano (PhD student, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en
Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas, México, Spring 2018)
Tian Jin and Chen Siyu
(Undergrad students, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, Spring 2017)
Mattia Panozzo (Master student, University of Padova, Italy, Spring
2017)