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
1.
Juan Gancio,
co-supervised with Dr. Giulio Tirabassi (Universitat de Girona).
PhD topic: Permutation entropy of multidimensional data
Funding: Catalan Agency
for Management of University and Research Grants, FI-AGAUR.
Start: January 2023
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5. Oscar Ricardo Mejia Parra
PhD topic: Assessing Information Measures for Quantifying
Heterogeneities in Laser Intensity Profiles Data
Funding: Catedra Chip UPC
Start: September 2025
Postdoctoral
Researcher: Dr. Juliane Teixeira
De Moraes (start: November 2025).
Former PhD students, thesis, year
15.
Alvaro Jose Zabaleta
Ortega, Análisis
Topológico de Datos Aplicado al Estudio de Interdependencias en Series de
Tiempo Complejas, 2025
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
Former Postdocs (year, present institution)
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)
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)