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The 6th campaign between external personal dosimetry services has been carried out by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Members of the Group of Characterization of Materials (GCM) of our institute published the results of a new study on high-entropy metallic glasses

Dr. Lluís Soler, member of the Nanoengineering of Materials Applied to Energy (NEMEN) research group has been awarded with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

The kick-off meeting of the project RemoteALPHA taken virtually place the 22nd and the 23rd of September 2020. The project ‘Remote and real-time optical detection of alpha-emitting radionuclides in the environment’ received funding from the EMPIR programme, co-financed by the Participating States, and from the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme. Arturo Vargas, member of the DRM group, is the leader of the WP3.

Maria Dolores Rodríguez González will defense her thesis in the mark of the PhD program in Nuclear and Ionizing Radiation Engineering. Title: 'Study of a Compton camera based on CsI(Tl) scintillator bars for radiological environmental imaging' Date: 29/10/2020 Time: 12:00 (UTC) Place: Aula 31.07 (Building C'), Virtual Room: https://meet.google.com/zki-nbju-hfn

The thesis defense of Adrià Casanovas will take place next 27th October at 10h in the mark of the PhD programme Nuclear and Ionising Radiation Engineering Advisors: Dr. César Domingo / Dr. Francisco Calviño Virtual Room Meet: https://meet.google.com/ken-pmnp-quo

The PhD thesis defense of Kwon Bok Rodríguez will take pleace on Tuesday, november 3rd 2020, at 11:00 A.M. Thesis advisor: Dr. Ignacio Casanova Hormaechea Virtual Room: https://meet.google.com/ofw-akkg-zqi

Santiago Torres, Pere Bruna (also member of the INTE) and Pietro Massignan, with backgrounds as varied as Astrophysics, Material Science and Quantum Physics, publish a textbook on Quantum Computation, one of the most promising and challenging fields in contemporary science.

A new report elaborated by the 'Servei de Biblioteques, Publicacions Arxius' of the UPC, shows the 150 most cited researchers from the UPC of the last 10 years.