Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Global waste is increasing every year, and despite awareness campaigns, recycling rates remain low. Current systems rely heavily on human participation, which is often inconsistent and error…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) is one of the deadliest cancers, with a five-year survival rate of only 13.3%. This poor prognosis is largely attributed to late-stage diagnosis and limited…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated notable success in various image reconnaissance tasks, leading to their further application in medical diagnosis. In this study, an expa…
Translational Medical Science
The widespread use of drugs, together with their limited specificity and poor biodistribution, poses significant challenges. Antibiotic resistance, aggravated by decades of uncontrolled cons…
Environmental Engineering
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), such as bisphenol A (BPA), are a wide group of natural and synthetic compounds that influence or inhibit the natural functions of the endocrine system.…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Leigh Syndrome is a disorder that typically appears during childhood or before birth and it is caused by mutations in the mitochondrial protein SURF1. Although more than 80 mutations have be…
Systems Software
Cati is a virtual assistant specifically designed for elderly people. By integrating different artificial intelligence systems (speech recognition, natural language processing and speech syn…
Mathematics
This project explores the application of complex analysis techniques for solving combinatorial problems, particularly in the context of an enumeration problem in the theory of regular langua…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project aims is to build a small automated and self-sufficient greenhouse as well as to compare the growth of vegetables inside the greenhouse and in a traditional orchard. Aspects such…
Translational Medical Science
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a new approach used for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) since this condition has been linked to an alteration of the gut microbiot…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Quantum annealing is an emerging technology that promises important progress in the quantum computing sector. Along with quantum gates, they provide a change of paradigm in computing, as the…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Paper industry is hugely contaminating, releasing 55 trillion tons of CO2 and cutting down 15 billion trees annually. We aim to solve this problem by using Kombucha as a sustainable alternat…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Over the last century, intelligence has been extensively studied, but theories at the brain level are now emerging, and they are in constant evolution. Previous research has identified relat…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) as a model organism, this research aims to study the Hog1 pathway in yeast and consequently mammalian homologous p38, which are SAPKs in contro…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The discovery of bacteria capable of converting the chemical energy of organic matter into electricity can lead us to a new form of green energy: Bioelectrical systems (BES). BES can help so…
Physics and Astronomy
The study, calculation, and cataloging of eclipsing binary systems are being done spectroscopy technique. An expensive way to catalog and classify eclipsing binary star systems because of te…
Animal Sciences
The Asiatic hornet Vespa velutina (from now on V.v) has become a big plague in Europe achieving an annual expansion radius of 50-100 km, growing exponentially and it is already present in mo…
Microbiology
After analysing the different preservation techniques that exist up to this day, it can be said that a point has been reached in which they cannot totally fulfil the needs of our growing soc…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic gram positive gastrointestinal bacterium. Existing treatments for C. difficile, such as antibiotics, have not proven to be highly effective because of t…
Systems Software
Third Award
This project aims to present a novel method for the asteroid search processes’ automatization, since these procedures still commonly rely on humans and manual spotting. The program, featurin…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer is one of the most important problems for public health. This project tries to explore a new way to reduce its danger: VANGUARD is a multidisciplinary platform for the generation of u…
Engineering Mechanics
With the technology available now, to explore the surface of Mars by sending humans has to face important issues mostly related to their security and health. In this project, I research how…
Physics and Astronomy
Purpose The ordinary matter in the universe is not distributed in a homogeneous way. The action of gravity forms different structures. Galaxy filaments are the largest known structures. The…
The aorta is the most important artery in the human body. Aortic aneurysms are the aorta’s main disease, which affects 2-7% of men over 65 years. Current treatments for aneurysms are open su…
Systems Software
The objective is to assess the efficacy of using trained dogs as a method for the detection of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier). This insect, native of Asia, is a parasite of palm trees t…
The firsts photography's researchers : a reference for today's researchers. The purpose of my Research Project was to get closer to the first researches on photography and how everything sta…
The aim of this work is to represent brain activity and, in particular, epileptic seizures by using computer technology. The model provides a visual representation of brain activity, which i…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Since the discovery of penicillin, bacteria have developed mechanisms to avoid its effects and, therefore, survive. Furthermore, during the last decades and because of the overuse of antibio…
Materials Science
The effects of acid rain on plants and soil have been carefully studied. By using sacrificial metals, like magnesium, these negative effects of acid rain can be offset. Both mortality rate a…