A team that combines research and teaching

The Functional Materials and Phase Transitions research group is a team of professionals with expertise in condensed matter physics and the behaviour of complex systems.

Many of the members of the research group combine their research activity with teaching at the Faculty of Physics of the UB.

Group members

Antoni Planes Vila

Antoni Planes Vila

Full Professor

Emeritus Professor

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Lluís Mañosa Carrera

Lluís Mañosa Carrera

Full Professor

Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies of the Faculty of Physics (UB)

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Teresa Castán Vidal

Teresa Castán Vidal

Full Professor

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Eduard Vives Santa-Eulalia

Eduard Vives Santa-Eulalia

Full Professor

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Marcel Porta Tena

Marcel Porta Tena

Associate Professor

Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics (UB)

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Jordi Baró Urbea

Jordi Baró Urbea

Lecturer Professor Serra Húnter

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Blai Casals Montserrat

Blai Casals Montserrat

Lector Professor

Department of Applied Physics (UB)

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Postdoctoral researchers

Enric Stern Taulats

Enric Stern Taulats

Postdoctoral researcher

Juan de la Cierva – Incorporation
Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Eduardo Mendive Tapia

Eduardo Mendive Tapia

Postdoctoral Researcher - Marie Sklodowska-Curie

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

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Honglian Li

Honglian Li

Postdoctoral researcher

Klara Lünser

Klara Lünser

Postdoctoral researcher

PhD Researchers

Aleix Abadia Huguet

Aleix Abadia Huguet

PhD student FPI

Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)

Technicians

Emma Valdés Martín

Emma Valdés Martín

Researcher contracted by the Llavor programme

Master’s student

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Quim Badosa Felip

Quim Badosa Felip

Researcher contracted by the Investigo programme

Undergraduate student

Toni Vives Cabaleiro

Toni Vives Cabaleiro

Engineer contracted by the TED RUBCOOL project

Electronic and mechanical engineer

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Visitors

Kübra Gürpinar

Kübra Gürpinar

Visiting Researcher

Jonathan Fernando Gebbia

Jonathan Fernando Gebbia

Postdoctoral researcher - Margarita Salas

2022-2023
The team is nourished by collaborations with researchers from other national and international research groups, departments, faculties and universities, who stay and participate in different projects.

Collaborations

Pol Lloveras. Grup de Caracterització de Materials / Dept. de Física Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Catalunya

Josep Lluís Tamarit. Grup de Caracterització de Materials / Dept. de Física Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Catalunya

Mehmet Acet. Universität Duisburg-Essen / Alemanya

Xavier Moya. Materials Science Department / University of Cambridge / Regne Unit

Oliver Gutfleisch. Functional Materials / TU Darmstadt / Alemanya

Tino Gottschall. Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD-EMFL) Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) / Alemanya

Hana Ursic. Jožef Stefan Institute / Eslovènia

Jaka Tusek. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering / University of Ljubljana / Eslovènia

Urban Tomc. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering / University of Ljubljana / Eslovènia

Bruno Weise. Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research / IFW Dresden / Alemanya

Guillem Aromí. Grup de Magnetisme i Molecules Funcionals / Dept. Química Orgànica i Inorgànica / Universitat de Barcelona / Catalunya

Xavier Balandraud. Sigma-Clermont / Institut Pascal, CNRS UMR 6602 / França

Giovanni Zanzotto. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY / Università di Padova / Italia

Guillaume Nataf. GREMAN Laboratory / Université de Tours / France

Blai Casals Montserrat .Dept. de Física Aplicada / Universitat de Barcelona / Espanya

Álvaro Corral Cano. Unit of Complex Systems / Centre de Recerca Matemàtica / Espanya

Pere Puig Casado. Advanced Statistical Modelling / Facultat de Matemàtiques Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Espanya

Mehdi Pouragha. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering / Carleton University Canada

Soumyajyoti Biswas. Dept. of Physics / SRM Unviersity Andhra Pradesh / India

Nicolas Candau. e-Plascom group Ciència i Enginyeria de Materials / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Espanya

Avadh Saxena. Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Theoretical Division / Los Alamos National Laboratory / USA

Julie Staunton. Magnetism and Alloy Theory group / Department of Physics/ University of Warwick / UK

Tilmann Hickel. Computational Phase Studies group / Department of Computational Materials Design / Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf) / Germany

Jörg Neugebauer. Director of the Department / Department of Computational Materials Design / Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf) / Germany

David Boldrin. Materials and Condensed Matter Group / School of Physics and Astronomy / University of Glasgow / UK

To contact the Functional Materials and Phase Transitions research group, please send an email to
functionalmaterials@ub.edu