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 enrolled in the Physics PhD
program of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
1. 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
Start: November 2023
2. 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
Start: September 2024
3. Sergi Torres Serra,
co-supervised with Dr. Jordi Tiana (Universitat de Barcelona)
PhD
topic: Synchronization and signal processing with spiking semiconductor
lasers
Funding: Catalan Agency
for Management of University and Research Grants, FI-AGAUR.
Start: September 2024
4. Oscar Ricardo Mejia Parra
PhD topic: Assessing Information Measures for Quantifying
Heterogeneities in Laser Intensity Profiles Data
Funding: Catedra
Chip UPC
Start: September 2025
Co-supervision of
PhD students enrolled in other PhD programs:
1. Juan Pedro Tarigo (Universidad de la Republica,
Uruguay, co-supervised with Cecilia Stari and Arturo Marti, start: April 2026).
2. Albane Challamel (University of Geneva, Switzerland,
co-supervised with Gregory Giuliani and Maura Brunetti, start: April 2026).
Former PhD students, thesis, year
16. Juan Gancio, Characterizing and detecting
changes in complex multidimensional data with permutation entropy, July
2026.
15. Alvaro Jose
Zabaleta Ortega, Análisis
Topológico de Datos Aplicado al Estudio de Interdependencias en Series de
Tiempo Complejas, July 2025
14. Maria Duque-Gijon, Experimental study of the
coherence of the light emitted by a semiconductor laser with optical feedback, December 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
Former Postdocs (year, present institution)
Dr. Juliane Teixeira De Moraes (2025-2026, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil).
Dr. Bruno Boaretto (2024-2025, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil)
Dr. Giulio Tirabassi (2021-2023, Universitat de Girona, Spain)
Dr. Jordi Tiana-Alsina (2015-2020, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. Carlos Quintero-Quiroz (2017-2019)
Dr. Laura Carpi
(2016, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Dr. Andres Aragoneses (2015-2016, Whitman College, USA)
Dr. Jose M. Aparicio Reinoso (2015)
Dr. Jordi Zamora-Munt (2013)
Dr. Cristian Bonatto (2011, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil)
Former visiting students (institution, year)
Stefania Zoi (PhD student, Institut de
la Vision, Paris, France, Autumn 2025)
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)