Research projects - Prof. Cristina Masoller,
Physics Department
Ongoing grants
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Marie Curie ITN CAFE:
Climate advanced forecasting of sub-seasonal extremes 2019-2023, H2020-813844 Web page: http://www.cafes2se-itn.eu/ Partners: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Spain, Coordinator), Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya
(Spain), Technische Universitaet
Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung(Germany), Aria Tech. (France), Meteo-France, CSIC (Spain), Max-Planck-Institute For Complex Systems (Germany), Universidad de la República (Uruguay), European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts (UK). Description: Forecasting climatic extreme events on the sub-seasonal
time scale (from 10 days to about 3 months) is very challenging because of
the poor understanding of the phenomena that may increase predictability in
this time scale. The goal of the CAFE project is to improve the sub-seasonal
predictability of extreme events by training of 12 PhD students in a wide
range of interdisciplinary topics including climate science, complex systems
and data analysis.
Participants of CAFE Kick-off
meeting, Mallorca, Spain, March 2019
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Complex dynamical systems and advanced data analysis tools 2019
- 2021 Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y
Universidades, Spain, PGC2018-099443-B-I00 Description: The aim of this project is to improve the understanding
of nonlinear phenomena in complex systems by the use of various data analysis
tools, with the long-term goal of exploiting nonlinear phenomena for
applications. The research is interdisciplinary and involves experiments,
simulations and data analysis.
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ICREA
ACADEMIA 2016-2020 Funding: Institució
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis
Avançats (ICREA), Generalitat de Catalunya. The ICREA Academia is a grant for professors that have permanent
positions in Catalan universities. This grant allows Prof. Masoller to reduce her teaching load and to intensify
research activities.
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Finished grants
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Marie Curie ITN
BE-OPTICAL: Advanced biomedical imaging and data analysis 2015-2019, H2020-675512 Web page: http://beoptical.eu/ Coordinator: C. Masoller Partners: Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya (Spain); Georg August University (Germany);
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Germany); University
of St. Andrews (UK); Institut de Microcirugia Ocular (Spain); Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (France); Nicolaus
Copernicus University (Poland); University of Glasgow (UK); PicoQuant GmBH (Germany). Description: Biomedical imaging is a research field that is producing
ground breaking scientific discoveries that improve our life quality, and
have a huge economic impact. To advance this field, is crucial to invest in
the new generation of researchers. BE-OPTICAL provided top-level training to
14 PhD students, in a wide range of imaging technologies and signal
processing tools. BE-OPTICAL brought together an interdisciplinary team of
physicists, engineers and medical doctors, with complementary expertise. BE-OPTICAL was featured in the Success
Stories web page of the European Comission (2017). BE-OPTICAL was featured in national and local
newspapers (2016): La Vanguardia, El Periodico, Diario de Terrassa
Members of UPC team (Terrassa,
Barcelona, October 2016). From left to right:
D. Halpaap, J. Tiana, T. Alterini, C. Masoller, J. Pujol, M. Vilaseca, F.
Diaz, P. Amil and A. Rodriguez.
Participants of
the first BE-OPTICAL school (Gottingen, Germany, November 2016)
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Complex physical and biophysical systems: towards a comprehensive view
of their dynamics and fluctuations 2016–2018 Funding: Ministerio de Economía y
Competitividad, Spain, FIS2015-66503-C3-2-P. Partners: Universitat
Pompeu Fabra (coordinator); Universitat de
Barcelona; Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya. Description: This project studied
a wide range of stochastic and complex systems that exhibit nonlinear phenomena,
such as excitability or extreme fluctuations.
Workshop on
Recent Advances on Stochastic and Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems,
organized at the end of the project, in honor of Prof. Carme Torrent
(Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, February 4, 2019).
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Marie Curie ITN LINC:
Learning about Interacting Networks in Climate 2011-2015, FP7-289447 Web page: https://climatelinc.eu/ Coordinator: C. Masoller Partners: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impacte Research (Germany); Bar-Ilan University
(Israel); Utrecht University (The Netherlands); Universidad de la Republica
(Uruguay); Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain); Climate Risk Analysis
(Germany); Ambrosys (Germany); Vortech (The Netherlands). Description: LINC trained 12 PhD
students and 3 postdocs in the interdisciplinary set of skills required to
undertake a successful career in physics and geosciences with expertise in
climatology, networks and complex systems. The results of the project were published in the European Commission
web page (Oct. 2016) and are contained in the book “Networks in Climate”,
published by Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Participants of
the Final LINC conference, Viena, Austria, 2015
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