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
Full Professor
Lluís Mañosa Carrera
Full Professor
Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)
Teresa Castán Vidal
Full Professor
Eduard Vives Santa-Eulalia
Full Professor
Marcel Porta Tena
Associate Professor
Jordi Baró Urbea
Lecturer Professor Serra Húnter
Blai Casals Montserrat
Lector Professor
Postdoctoral researchers
Enric Stern Taulats
Postdoctoral researcher
Eduardo Mendive Tapia
Postdoctoral Researcher - Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Honglian Li
Postdoctoral researcher
Klara Lünser
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD Researchers
Aleix Abadia Huguet
PhD student FPI
Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UB)
Technicians
Emma Valdés Martín
Researcher contracted by the Llavor programme
Quim Badosa Felip
Researcher contracted by the Investigo programme
Undergraduate student
Visitors
Kübra Gürpinar
Visiting Researcher
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
functionalmaterials@ub.edu